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Changing times, Sfe 01 tjr and things unchanged v • o «9 K > For a lot of reasons, 1 have been thinking powerful song that seems to me a companion a good deal about time lately. About what piece to “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” O 1L p ft* changes, and what remains. About begin­ and one that has special resonance for me i.B nings and endings, and what comes next. these days: “Tilings Have Changed.” The a During the last week of fall-semester classes, song appeared on a movie track (Wonder I made a guest appearance in Professor Nancy Boys) and earned Bob an Academy Award and A Bristows class on the 1960s (I was exhibit A) a Golden Globe for Best Original Song, * and was interviewed on KUPS about Wood- Like its predecessor, “Tilings Have stock (yup, I was there); a few days later, over Changed” is a meditation on time and its the holiday break, I took a nostalgic stroll changes. The first song looked forward, this on the boardwalk back home—a place that one looks back. Here again, Dylan affirms was once the glittering pleasure paradise of the transformative effects of times rushing the Jersey shore and is now a shabby, hollow torrent. But now he offers us no call to skeleton of what once was. Ravages of time. action, no advice about swimming through, It’s the end of the year, too, the beginning of no warning about getting out of the way if another, and the start of my final semester at we can’t lend a hand: “Lot of water under Puget Sound, completing nearly a half cen­ the bridge,” he says in a tone of resignation tury of being in college. to the forces of time, “lot of other stuff, too. Inevitably, Bob Dylan has been on my The eager embrace of the changes coming is mind, too. replaced with a cynical acceptance of the way “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” He things are. No more talk about the loser’s let us in on this in 1963, making clear in luck turning to winning. Now it seems that his own inimitable way what was happening “some things are too hot to touch” and “the all around us. He was reminding us, at that human mind can only stand so much,” so the particularly pivotal moment in our history, singer can only conclude, “you can’t win with of an essential truth about time that was a losing hand.” first articulated by Heraclitus in the sixth What happened? The anthem of the first century BCE: Time changes things, and it song became an anathema in the second. You changes you. You have to keep up with it or might just say that things have changed— it will wash you away. Once you “admit that with a vengeance. the waters around you have grown” (and it’s To me, the songs together suggest some- always so evident that they have), “you better thing else, too—something that connects start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone.” them and their times (and the songwriter) We are immersed in time. in a complementary way. It’s in how time is That’s the warning Bob offered, plain treated differently in the choruses. The first even to a 14-year-old like me at the time. affirms that time is about change. In the Looking to the changes that would surely second, however, “things” change rather than come in the days ahead—particularly at the “the times.” Now “People are crazy,” the latter end of the 1960s, an era that he sang so elo­ chorus notes, “and times are strange.” Time is quently about while “the wheel” was "still in unfamiliar, inexplicable, seemingly unknow­ spin”—Dylan predicted that a fundamental able. Things may have changed, but the times reversal of fortunes was sweeping in like a really haven’t changed all that much. flood with that decade’s rising tide of social Between the beginning of the 1960s and currents: “The loser now will be later to win,” the end of the millennium, between the first he declared, just as sure as “the present now song and the second, almost 40 years of time will later be past” and “the first one now will passed. A lot of water (and other stuff) under later be last.” the bridge, for sure. But with respect to the At the turn of the millennium, almost 40 things that matter, the things the latter song years later, Dylan wrote and recorded another considers “too hot to touch”—war and peace,

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social justice and civil rights, human com­ and Baltimore and St. Louis to South appearance and history deprive people of ; passion and religious tolerance—not much Carolina and New York and Chicago. color in our society of personhood, of dig­ progress has been made. Strange. From the Black Lives Matter: It must be said. The nity, of protection, of respect, of acceptance, commencement of the modern civil rights fact is, black lives in America have a life and even of life in the eyes of many—of movement in 1960s America, with its dreams expectancy five years shorter than white being worth something. of peace, love, and understanding, through lives, a higher unemployment rate, a higher For many in places of privilege, this to todays ubiquitous expressions of war, prej­ poverty rate, a higher incarceration rate, and deprivation can be invisible or repressed or udice, hostility, extremism, and violence, we a lower graduation rate from college—and simply denied. Even if it is too hot to touch, just haven’t come very far. the gaps have widened rather than narrowed this, too, is a truth that must be exposed and The historical displacement between since the 1960s. Far from self-evident, the asserted—insisted upon. I am. I am some­ these two moments in time makes me think insistence of the phrase “Black Lives Mat­ body. I matter. I am here. I deserve to live. My of another “song” we often hear sung with a ter” and the determination to make it true black life matters. combination of despair and determination is an absolute necessity in these strange It also strikes me that those two phrases, these days, a song that, like Dylans, evokes times. Some things have changed; and many like the two Dylan songs, are important the 1960s for me. “Black Lives Matter” is a things have strangely only gotten worse. markers in my own life experience in the chorus intoned over and over in our streets “I Am Somebody.” I first heard this academy, from my first years as a college and on our campuses (including our own), “song” as a young college student on a Sat­ student in Chicago in the ’60s, to my years and it has earned a particularly urgent cur­ urday morning in the fall of 1968. It was as a professor in Chicago in the ’80s, then rency over the last two years. The phrase spoken, actually, in a dramatic call-and- in Cambridge and Hartford, Conn., in the would seem to be, it should be, an unneces­ response performance in an old auditorium ’90s, and finally, as a college president here in sary statement to make in the wake of the in a run-down section on the West Side of Tacoma for the last 12 years. A lot of water changes brought about in our society by the Chicago, where I stood with classmates who under the bridge for me over that time, a lot civil rights legislation of the last half century. had brought me there. A gospel choir sang of other stuff, too. The words would seem to be a redundancy. A and swayed before us as a young minister And as I look back I think Bob had it self-evident truth. Of course black lives mat­ and activist named Jesse Jackson stepped to right—both times. Times are strange. Always ter. Right? the podium, and led us—in the dramatic have been. But they are also changing. But times are strange. What is all too and charismatic way only he could—in a Always will. Many things have changed, to evident about the times in which we now complete, almost hymn-like, recitation of be sure, and not all of them for the better. live is that the phrase has become an essential the powerfully simple poem from the 1950s But I believe firmly that the wheel is still in declaration to make in the face of evidence written by the Rev. William H. Borders, spin. That we’d better keep swimming, and opposing the truth it affirms. That black lives senior pastor of Atlanta’s Wheat Street we can. That we’d better continue to learn to do not matter—to our institutions of law and Baptist Church. The poem’s last stanzas understand why times are strange, and we’d order, to our justice system, to the funda­ go like this: better do something—do more—about it; mental structures that compose our society— and we will. would in fact seem to be the more evident I Am Somebody You cannot be in higher education and truth when we look around us. I Am Black not believe that. The greatest risk, as “Things As we contemplate the unimaginable, Brown Have Changed” warns, is to cease caring. If senseless, and seemingly endless series of White your time to you is worth saving, as Dylan brutal deaths of unarmed young black men I Speak A Different Language put it the first time, then it’s time to get to across the country in recent times, all too But I Must Be Respected work. A lot more change has to come to often at the hands of white police officers, Protected make our colleges and universities—and our it is hard not to recall those other painful Never Rejected world—into truly equitable, just, inclusive images of unarmed young black men being I Am God’s Child places. The colleges that take that change seri­ attacked by policemen wielding clubs and I Am Somebody ously, that insist on striving to make a world unleashing dogs during the civil rights in which everyone is somebody who matters, marches of the 1960s in the streets of Mem­ I have never forgotten that morning, the will be the ones that change the times rather phis and Chicago and Los Angeles. Images claims of that poem, and the passion with than being changed, or swept away, by them. of todays assaults are now captured in cell which it was spoken. I can still hear it. And It’s about time. phone videos and even sometimes by the I am struck today that “I Am Somebody” squad-car cameras of the offending police is the first-person version of the contem­ officers themselves rather than by network porary utterance “Black Lives Matter,” a \ news cameras. But like the ’60s, those images proclamation of its own in the face of so are replayed on our TV sets daily, from LA much counter-evidence—that poverty and Ronald R.Thomas

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At the end of October, as part of a symposium sponsored by the Puget Sound Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment, the Chaopraya Ensemble performed Thai regional folk dances and stylish court dances, and they played Thai classical and folk music using traditional instruments. This is WeerunyaphonTangthanawiroot, in a dance called Enchanted Kinnarees, which originally was created for Thailand's southern folktale, the story of Prince Suthon and Princess Manorah. A Kinnaree is a female mythical creature of half bird, half human. When she takes off her wings she looks and functions like human, but she can fly like a bird with her wings on. Watch the complete presentation (and some excellent student research presentations on Southeast Asian cultural and environmental topics) here: pugetsound.edu/liase/2015-symposium/2015-symposium-video.

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K ANNIVERSARIES Pulling out all the stops -r>\ 2 oi This school year the Bethel mmrtA* c Schneebeck organ in Kilworth I 1 Chapel turns 25, but that's ' * 3 a mere toddler for a tracker i r organ. Tracker action, as it's called, is a mechanical system connecting a pipe organ's keys and pedals to valves that allow air to flow into the pipes. Tracker organs have been around for hundreds of years, and playing them is a little different from play­ ing electric organs, since in pressing the keys the organist CAMPUS ACTIVISM Protests at the University of Missouri in the fall sparked solidarity events has to overcome the force of on campuses around the country and renewed calls for action in the representation and the air against the valves. But support of students from historically marginalized backgrounds. On Nov. 12, Puget Sound O, the sound, which is par­ students assembled in Wheelock Student Center, and on Nov. 19 several hundred people ticularly glorious with music joined together outside Jones Hall to hear students speak about their experiences at Puget composed for the instrument, Sound and ideas for strengthening the campus community. such as that of the Baroque era. Paul Fritts '73 built the Schneebeck organ in 1990, and he made it specifically for ALUMNI Kilworth. The chapel sanctuary o is ideal for the organ's echoey Hailing frequencies open. Captain %J sound. In fact the acoustics I So we were psyched to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens when 5 there were adjusted for that it came out in December, and we grin to think that there's a Puget purpose. The spaces under Sound connection with the film: the fabulous animated open letter the pews were opened up to that Prescott Harvey '04 and friends made to producer J.J. Abrams, create more air volume in the with advice on how to get the Star Wars franchise back to its spiritual room, thus permitting deep roots. If you are one of the few remaining people in the galaxy who organ notes to reverberate as hasn't seen Prescott's video (dearjjabrams.com; 1,163,663 views, much as possible. last time we checked), we think you'll agree that he nailed it.

And while we're on the topic of space epics, there's this, which floored us when the link was forwarded to Arches World Headquarters by inveterateTrekkie and director of university relations research Cecilia Hogan: totse.mattfastl. n com/en/ego/science_fiction/uhura.html. :

1I In it we learn: "Nyota Uhura was born at the University of Kenya at Nairobi Hospital, the first and only daughter of ; University Chancellor Alhamisi Uhura and freelance photographer M'Umbha Mahia. Little Nyota showed an aptitude .• for languages and at age five could speak both Swahili and rudimentary English. The next year, her brother, David. - £ was born, and soon after M'Umbha died of cancer. Nyota was enrolled in grammar school in the nearby community : of M'Bamba, and finished junior high before leaving with her widowed father for the U.S. Her family settled in jfc. Spokane [Washington]; she attended high school and the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. [I!] She then enrolled v in Starfleet Academy, spending a few months in San Francisco, Calif., before departing for the prime academy at £ Starbase One." Whoa. Uhura is a Logger. I

ACCOLADES SEEN AND HEARD Best value “As a bystander, it is your responsibility Kiplinger's Personal Finance named Puget Sound to its 2016 list of the coun­ try's 100 best values among liberal arts colleges. Kiplinger's assessed value to reach out and assist a victim of online by considering academic quality and affordability, and for the first time the harassment, even if you don’t know them in magazine also presented graduates' expected future average earnings. The magazine noted that many college-bound students reject private colleges person. The bullies and trolls are an incredibly out of hand because of their high sticker prices, but independent schools vocal minority. If victims and also can offer generous financial aid that greatly reduces the published cost. bystanders band together, we can Cranking out creators start to effectively push back.” Puget Sound is turning out entrepreneurs at such a rate that Forbes says it — Nick Brody, assistant professor of is one of the top 20 most entrepreneurial colleges in the U.S.The ranking communication studies, in an Oct. 28, was calculated by noting the number of graduates who identify themselves ’•If as business founders and owners on Linkedln, and dividing that figure by 2015, TechNewsWorldstory about the ^ South by Southwest conference’s cancellation the school's student body. Puget Sound is the only college in the Northwest ... among the top 20. of two panels—on sexism in games and online harassment—after the organizers received threats of conference on-site violence

NEW FACULTY BOOKS Imagining Pangea It was German scientist Alfred Wegener who in OUR TOWN 1915 speculated that the Earth's continents had Epworth LeSourd Church sold to theater troupe once been a single huge landmass. His theory fiilir cnJ (U TKrr*; (f Cnifi WMl/Vrft In June the congregation of Epworth LeSourd United Methodist of continental drift endured years of skepticism Church decided to disband due to declining membership, and the and even hostility from his peers, but Wegener H church building was, in August, sold to Tacoma Musical Playhouse. was accustomed to hardship. Throughout his * Epworth LeSourd was built in 1926 and designed by Tacoma archi­ life he faced financial difficulties, scientific iso­ J tect George Bullard, who also designed the college's building at the lation, illness, and injury Working in the Arctic, *1 old 6th Ave. campus. The church was named in part for its longtime he dealt with hunger, polar bears, and brutal pastor, the Rev. David G. LeSourd, who was one of Puget Sound's snowstorms. Yet he loved the cruel landscape MOTT T. GREENE founders. Tacoma Musical Playhouse has renamed the facility The that was a major setting for his work, and Spire and will use it for classes and dinner-theater productions, the when Wegener died at age 50, felled by a heart attack on the Greenland first of which took place in November. ice sheet, his wife told the German government to leave his body there, because "it's where he wants to be."

Now Puget Sound Professor Emeritus of Science and Technology Mott Greene has written Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), the first compre­ hensive biography of the eclectic scientist. Professor Greene spent more than 20 years reconstructing the man's life. #

"Darwin and Einstein left thousands of letters, piles of manuscripts," he * S'<8*8 said. "None of this happened for Wegener. If he was going to have a legacy, ' Wl somebody was going to have to make it."

Greene read everything his subject wrote and everything he read. He pored over international archives and traveled everywhere that Wegener traveled and lived. The result is a fascinating portrait that Nature called "a magnifi­ cent, definitive, indefatigable tribute to an indefatigable man."

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RESIDENCES Welcome to The Fancy House

"Stay fancy." read glasses full of sparkling apple cider on the table atThe Fancy House. Tonight's i guests of honor: President Ron and Mary Thomas. The students living in this, one of 20 theme houses on campus this year, are Emma Goldblatt '18. Gwen Bartholomay '18. Andres Chavez '18. Max Hauser '18. and Sophie Myers '18. They all met when likely have surmised, is the covered out an alumni publication pretty they were freshmen in Todd/ NAMES brick walkway at the west end of much continuously since 1929. Phibbs and started a tradition of Why is Arches called Howarth Hall. What's not obvious is The first alumni newsletter was "fancy dinners." for which they Arches? that that walkway, built in 1927, was, called The Puget Sound Alumnus. It they whipped up special meals, It’s not unusual for colleges to name in the original campus plan, intended was typed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper and set an elegant table, and broke alumni magazines for prominent to extend all the way around what is printed on a mimeograph machine. out their best evening wear. architectural features on their cam­ now Karlan Quad. Would have been The masthead read: "Issued Quar­ "Dressing up allows you to put puses. Take the University of Wash­ a nice feature, we think, considering terly (we hope)." It had a little class on a different character, try on ington's Columns, for example. our moist climate—especially this notes section, with news of jobs a different role—and be goofy." winter! and marriages and families, just like said Max. When the housemates The arched colonnade from which today. Arches first appeared in 1973 applied for their themed-living our publication derives its name, Speaking of your alumni mag's as a tabloid. Arches the magazine house they invited President observant wanderers of the campus name. Puget Sound has been putting debuted in 2000. Thomas, known for his Italian suits and thoughtful dinner con­ versation, to be their advisor. (He said. "Sure!") Emma cooked a four-course meal of vegetable THE CAMPAIGN soup, baked pasta with cheese A celebration of you and mushrooms, and apple cake, On Oct. 3, Memorial Fieldhouse became part and the residents and Thomases dinner theater, part very impressive multi-screen enjoyed an evening of getting to cinema in one of a series of events as the college know one another, sharing life thanked the 28,493 people who helped the One stories, and talking about school, (of a Kind) Campaign exceed its $125 million goal classes, and college culture. by $6.6 million. Similar celebrations took place in — Maya Makino '19 San Francisco on Jan. 26 and in Los Angeles on Jan. 27. Coming up: Denver (March 15). Portland, Ore. (March 31), and Honolulu (April 27).

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THEN AND NOW

Bestsellers in the Puget Sound Bookstore

Winter 1981 Winter 2016 The Official Preppy Handbook The Boys in the Boat Lisa Birnbach, editor Daniel James Brown The Next Whole Earth Catalog The Alchemist Stewart Brand, editor Paulo Coelho Godel, Escher, Bach The Art of Racing in the Rain Douglas R. Hofstadter Garth Stein Still Life with Woodpecker The Magicians Tom Robbins Lev Grossman A Field Guide To the Birds Lies MyTeacherTold Me: East of the Rockies Everything Your American ANNIVERSARIES Roger Tory Peterson HistoryTextbook Got Wrong 40 years ago: NCAA Division II national champions James W. Loewen Garfield at Large In March of 1976 the Loggers overcame their underdog role three times to Jim Davis American Prometheus: The win the NCAA Division II basketball championship. Bill Baarsma '64. P’93 Triumph and Tragedy of J. Jailbird tells the story: Robert Oppenheimer Kurt Vonnegut Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin "It was ironic that some wise guy from Tennessee fashioned T-shirts refer­ Smiley's People Oryx and Crake ring to the Logger hoopsters as 'Puny' Sound when they vied for the NCAA John le Carre Margaret Atwood Division II championship in Evansville. III., in 1976.These 'puny' team mem­ The Dead Zone bers averaged 6 feet 7 inches tall and may very well have been the tallest People of the Lie: The Hope for Stephen King collegiate quintet in the country at the time. Led by Puget Sound's 7-foot Healing Human Evil post player. Curt 'The Peak' Peterson '76. the team included guards Tim The Executioner's Song M. Scott Peck Evans '78 (6 feet 6 inches) and William 'Rocky' Botts 78 (6 feet 5 inches), Norman Mailer and forwards Brant Gibler 76 (6 feet 7 inches) and Rick Walker 78 (6 feet 5 inches). The Loggers, masterfully coached by Don Zech P'84, stunned the defending champion, Old Dominion, in the semifinals of the tournament OUR TOWN with an 83-78 win. In the championship game. UPS finished off Tennes- n see-Chattanooga, hitting 55 percent of shots from the field and controlling a the boards. Again, it was reported that game observers were ‘stunned’ by & -5 the outcome, particularly Tennessee fans wearing those ’Puny'T-shirts. o

"Actually, the most stunning victory for the Loggers was in the quarterfinal game against the University of North Dakota in a match retired athletics director Doug McArthur '53 described as 'the greatest ever played in Memorial Fieldhouse.' The North Dakota five were in many respects a mir­ ror image of the Loggers. Their records were similar, offenses the same, and each team posted an imposing front line. It was a nail-biter game for the 4,300 fans crammed into the field house for that Sunday evening con­ test. With seconds remaining, Noah Dakota guard David Dickey missed what would have been the winning shot. Logger Rick Walker grabbed the rebound, was fouled, and sank two free throws to seal the win: 80-77. Thus, ’Puny' Sound became the first Washington state team to win a national collegiate basketball championship" So the frantic holidays are over, and in case you've ever wondered what happens to those guys in the green suits and pointy shoes during the off­ A team reunion is planned on campus March 12. For more information con­ season, here's your answer. tact Jake Nelko in Alumni and Parent Relations at 253-879-3417.

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THE PEOPLE OF PUGET SOUND:

Lyle Ford Drushel512: a modern dean of women

The people of Puget Sound weave the genera­ tions together as we roll onward to the heights. A new professor arrives on the scene, for decades influences hundreds or thousands of students, retires, and passes the baton to someone else. A dean of thefaculty spends a lifetime assembling outstanding teachers and scholars, then is gone, and soon feiv on campus know his or her name. Our memories are short. Yet knowing of these people and what they built helps us understand what it is we are building upon.

uring an era when the dean of women was among the colleges D five most senior administrative officers, the influence of Lyle Ford Drushel was keenly appreciated. Her association with Puget Sound was especially long, beginning in 1907, when she matriculated as a fresh­ man on the old Sixth and Sprague campus, and not ending, really, until she passed away in 1985 at age 97. Lyle Ford Drushel was born Lyle Eliza­ beth Ford on Sept. 20, 1888, in Lyons, Neb. Her middle name was her mothers first name, a middle name which, by family tradition, Lyle chose for herself. Lyle was the second oldest of four children, three girls and a boy. The Fords moved from Nebraska to Oklahoma and to Kansas, where Lyle gradu­ ated from Winfield High School on May 24, 1907. By September the Fords had arrived in Tacoma, where Lyle enrolled at the Univer­ sity of Puget Sound. This photo of long-serving Dean of Women and Associate Professor of English Lyle Ford Lyles father was a grocer. Lyles older Drushel T2 was taken in her Kittredge Hall apartment, 1952. The location of the apartment sister, Margaretta (1884-1962), worked as can be identified by the bay window that still exists on the second floor of the Lawrence a nurse. Lyles brother, Morris Everett Ford Street side of Kittredge Hall. Today this space is the faculty office of art history professor (1894—1958), was an educator in the Park­ Zaixin Hong. land schools and in 1948 became the first superintendent of the new Franklin Pierce for Puget Sound students, especially after junior years, 1909-10. Lyle graduated in School District. Franklin Pierces Morris E. Lyles lively younger sister, Myra Louise 1912 with honors, when Julius Zeller was Ford Middle School is named for him. Its (1892-1965), enrolled as a freshman during president, a year before Edward H. Todd athletic teams are the Ford TTiunderbirds. Lyles senior year. took the helm. For being the graduating Lyle lived at home during her college While enrolled at Puget Sound, Lyle senior with “the best knowledge and com­ years, at 1105 S. Prospect St., an easy street­ worked as a teacher in a grammar school. mand of the English language,” she was car ride and walk from Sixth and Sprague. These duties may have been the reason she awarded a copy of Webster’s Unabridged The Ford home became a. popular hangout took a year off between her sophomore and Dictionary, an honor important enough to

12 arches winter 2016 be noted on her official Puget Sound tran­ script. Lyle had served as an assistant to the English department for two years. According to a grandnephew, “Her letters written to me during her middle 90s were so lovely that I found myself diagramming her sentences.” After graduating from Puget Sound, Lyle taught school, mostly at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, but also at other places, including Chelan, Wash. Gearing up for World War I, the Selective Service sent Lyle a draft reg­ istration form, confused, apparently, by her masculine-sounding name. Regardless, Lyle did spend time during World War I at Asto­ ria, Ore., where she performed “war camp community service” for the war department and the Navy department Commissions on Training Camp Activities. After the war Lyle continued teaching until 1927.

William Allen Drushel (1874—1931) was a Campus Day at the old campus on the corner of Sixth Ave and Sprague Street, 1908. chemist and a 1905 graduate of Yale Univer­ Standing with a nice smile at the right of the third row up from the bottom of the steps is Lyle Elizabeth Ford '12.This photograph is from "Lyle Elizabeth Ford's School Girl Days, A Memory sity. He taught at Yale until 1918 and then Book," in the university archives. for the rest of his life worked as a research chemist for Haskelite Manufacturing Cor­ poration in Grand Rapids, Mich. Allen in women from the men and to “protect” the 1910 married Pearl Montgomery, with whom women and watch out for their interests. he had a daughter, Catherine Anne Drushel Puget Sound enrolled women from the (1913-1998). Pearl died in 1923, when Cath­ beginning, and during the early years hired erine was 10 years old. matrons or preceptresses. Between 1914 and Allen Drushel, like Lyle Ford, was edu­ 1918, for example, Louise Goulder for two cated, outgoing, interesting and interested years and then Stella Patterson for another in life, and attractive and dignified in his two held the title “matron of womens dormi­ personal bearing. Family lore has it that Allen tory and preceptress.” "Her letters written to me and Lyle met on a train or on a bus traveling In 1922 President Todd hired the first to San Francisco for a conference. In any Puget Sound dean of women, Eleanor during her middle 90s were case after a short courtship they married in Brooks Gulick, who also served as head of Tacoma on July 20, 1927. Allen was 53 and the English department. Then, between 1922 so lovely that I found myself Lyle 38. Allen whisked Lyle away to Grand and 1931, the dean of women position was Rapids, where they lived with Catherine. filled by six different incumbents. It was a diagramming her sentences." Tragedy continued to stalk Allen. This difficult time to be a dean of women, with time it was he who passed away, of colon the recent Great War and the social changes cancer, less than four years later, on April it had wrought, the Roaring ’20s, and now 17, 1931. Lyle never remarried. She went by the Great Depression roiling up the formerly “Lyle Ford Drushel” for the remaining 54 serene waters of social relations in higher years of her life. education. Nothing was simple anymore. Meanwhile, College of Puget Sound President Todd needed stability in the President Edward H. Todd was looking for dean of women job. Available for considera­ a new dean of women. Many colleges and tion—as the result of personal tragedy—was universities had started out as all-male insti­ Lyle Ford Drushel. Todd most certainly knew tutions. When women began to be admitted, her from her student days, when he was the the men who ran the places hired deans of colleges corresponding secretary, and again women to segregate as much as possible the later when she was a prominent Tacoma

winter 2016 arches 13 alumna. Whether Todd heard of Allen flowers that Lyle watered as she gazed to the Drushels death and wrote to Lyle in Michi­ west toward Jones, Howarth, and Anderson The qualities she exhibited gan, or whether Lyle returned to Tacoma halls. (Today the bay window is in the office first, we don’t know. But she did move back of art history professor Zaixin Hong, and the matched perfectly a to Tacoma just a few weeks after Allen died, bay window is filled with books, not flowers.) bringing Catherine with her, and in the Lyle also taught in the English depart­ description in an October fall term of 1931 Lyle Ford Drushel began ment and attained the rank of associate pro­ her 22-year career as Puget Sounds dean of fessor. In 1936 New York University awarded 1933 Journal of Higher women. her an M.A. degree, which she earned by Dean Drushel became one of the very attending classes in New York during the Education article about best deans of women to be found anywhere. summer months. Each semester of her The qualities she exhibited matched perfectly Puget Sound career, Lyle taught a freshman "modern" deans of women: a description in an October 1933 Journal composition class and a class in American of Higher Education article about “modern” literature—four courses per year—all while tough-minded ("austerely deans of women: tough-minded (“austerely serving as dean. sympathetic”), yet tolerant; able to help mold In 1938 the College of Puget Sound cel­ sympathetic"), yet tolerant; character by advising with authority on a ebrated its 50th anniversary. Dean Drushel variety of matters, including course choice, wrote to graduates in that year’s Tamanawas: able to help mold character social customs, and vocational fitness. “At a “When another 50 years of the life of the time when everything is in flux, [the dean college have flashed by, you will be the ‘old by advising with authority of women] exerts, in an intimate fashion, a grads’ returning to celebrate the occasion, to stabilizing influence.” It helped that Dean welcome former friends and acquaintances, on a variety of matters, Drushels demeanor was one of calm and to look with wonder and amazement upon thoughtful deliberation. the new college generation of 1988, and including course choice, In January 1942, when Kittredge Hall to speculate on the future of Puget Sound. opened as the colleges first student center, What will the world of that day be? What social customs, and Lyle moved into the dean of womens apart­ standing will the college have? Will the cam­ ment on the west side of the second floor. pus be fully developed and all buildings com­ vocational fitness. Tie bay window we still see today was in pleted? What will you be like? Who among her living room. The window was filled with you will occupy the high places? Who will be famed for contributions to the arts and sciences? The answer to all these questions is shrouded in the mystery of the future. It will be revealed gradually, in time and in degree, as life teaches you loyalty, responsibility, and cooperation. May this Fiftieth Anniver­ sary challenge you to accept your full part in carrying the college forward to worthy achievement!” Talk about generations coming and going! We can and we do, with 78 years gone since 1938, and we find Dean Drushels words continue to ring true.

The 1953 Tamanawas gives a concise descrip­ tion of Dean Drushel s duties, at the end of her career, in the caption that accompanies her portrait: “Mrs. Lyle Ford Drushel, the Dean of Women, begins her academic year in July as the applications for dormitory space begin to roll in, and ends her year in June as the last woman receives her sheepskin. She Lyle Elizabeth Ford T2 (back row third from right) with unidentified fellow students on an keeps an eye on the social calendar, advises outing to Fox Island, March 1911. From Lyle's memory book.

14 arches winter 2016 Panhellenic, guides sorority rushing, serves as director of Kittrcdge Hall, and brushes up on notes for her English and literature classes. Her home and office upstairs in the SUB [Student Union Building] has a commanding view of the entire campus where she contends with the occasional blare of the jukebox.” Dean Drushel retired at the end of spring term 1953. She was immediately hauled back to campus to help out as an assistant in the alumni office during 1953-54. But after Ralph Simpson ’13 died in 1954 Lyle went to live with her newly widowed sister, Myra. Myras grandchildren were also a parr of the living mix, and they learned much from and were heavily influenced by their distinguished grandaunt. For example Lyle taught her grandniece Hattie to drive in Lyles stick-shift Studebaker. And Lyle guided her grand­ nephew William toward academic pursuits and a career as a geologist. Lyle lived for 32 years after she retired. Her primary family caregiver the last few years was her namesake grandniece, Lyle Eliz­ abeth (Libet) Gardner. “When I would take her out for a drive and ‘lunch,’ she would always indulge her considerable sweet tooth and skip the lunch part. When she was in her 90s, we were in a restaurant, Lyle with a huge chocolate sundae—whipped cream and cherry. She was tiny, bent, and frail looking by that time. A fellow customer came up to me when I paid and said that the sight of Lyle eating that sundae was the cutest thing he had ever seen.” Lyle Ford Drushel died peacefully in a Shelton, Wash., nursing home on Dec. 11, 1985, at age 97, with her nieces Betty and Libet at her side. She is buried in Mountain View Memorial Park, Tacoma. R. Franklin Thompson knew Dean Lyle Elizabeth Ford T2 (left) with an unidentified fellow Puget Sound student on an April Drushel well during his years as Puget Sound canoe outing to American Lake. From Lyle's memory book. president (1942-73) and afterward. He wrote about her that she was “an ideal dean of women. She knew what was happening. Students dedicated the 1939 Tamanawas The author is grateful to Harriet (Hattie) She had such close contact with the students to Lyle Ford Drushel, declaring that “her Lingley Dixon, Lyle Elizabeth (Libet) that they would share their hopes, aspira­ influence has helped many realize dreams of Lingley Gardner, William (Bill) S. Lingley, tions, fears, and problems with her. ... She ideal college life. Her contact with both men Jr., and Ralph David Simpson III for help­ was a distinguished-looking person and had and women students has inspired cherished ing us to know better their grandaunt, Lyle beautiful white hair which on rare occasions acquaintances.” The caption on Dean Drush- Elizabeth Ford Drushel, and for donating had a blue tint after she had been to a beauty el’s portrait in the 1943 Tamanatuas is: “... Lyle's 1907—1912 Puget Sound college parlor. The students affectionately called her gracious and charming—anyone’s picture of a mernoiy book to the university's Archives & ‘Blue Dru.’” dean of women.” — John Finney '67, P'94 Special Collections.

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Knowledge and its limits

To what extent can technology fix social problems?

And when should we just leave well enough alone?

by Amy Fisher, assistant professor of science, technology, and society

s a historian of science and technol­ American Automobile, and he testified before ogy, I am fascinated by how knowl­ Congress about automobile safety. In par­ A edge of the natural world is discov­ ticular, Nader noted that driver education ered and applied, especially in light of argu­ programs had failed to reduce car-accident ments promoting technology as a means of fatalities; deaths that could have been pre­ mitigating large-scale problems. For example, vented, he argued, by automobile safety in 1966 physicist Alvin Weinberg, director of features such as seat belts, which car manu­ the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Ten­ facturers resisted. Naders crusade, in part, nessee and member of the Presidents Science inspired Weinberg to ask: “To what extent Advisory Committee, wrote an article titled can technological remedies [like seat belts] be “Can technology replace social engineering?” found for social problems without first hav­ for The University of Chicago Magazine. In ing to remove the causes of the problem [such this essay he noted that humans were deeply as poor driving]?” flawed: “People don’t behave rationally; it is Weinberg advocated for what he called a long, hard business to persuade individuals the technologicalfix. He acknowledged that to forgo immediate personal gain or plea­ some of his examples were controversial but sure (as seen by the individual) in favor of said it was nevertheless important to be open longer-term social gain.” He suggested that to technological solutions to immediate com­ technology could provide possible, short­ plex problems for which our knowledge, or term solutions to difficult environmental and ability to act on that knowledge, was limited. social problems, such as poverty and war. For instance, he pointed to Edward Tellers Surprisingly, Weinberg simultaneously arguments for continued nuclear testing. praised Ralph Nader, a lawyer and consumer Teller argued that an imbalance between the advocate, and Edward Teller, the father of military capabilities of European nations, in the hydrogen bomb. By 1966 Nader had part, caused World War II, allowing Hitlers become well known as the author of Unsafe armies to overrun neighboring states. He at Any Speed: The Designed-ln Dangers of the asserted that the historical record indicated

16 arches winter 2016 the only way to prevent a devastating con­ neighborhoods and shopping centers or else What does this then suggest about the state flict between the Soviet Union and the risk damage to their cars. of our knowledge and its limits? Does it mean United States—the two emerging world I find these studies of technology thought that we should never act because we have an powers after the war—was to ensure that provoking, if problematic. On the one hand, imperfect understanding of our world? such a disparity in arms never occurred we have the scientific and technical knowledge My conclusion: certainly not, but history again. Teller said that the specter of nuclear to create technological fixes to deal with a provides us with cautionary tales and encour­ weapons and mutually assured destruc­ variety of issues. For example, we may not be ages us to be more mindful of what we know tion, for better or for worse, reduced the able to treat polio, but we can prevent chil­ and what we don’t know. By continuing to likelihood of war between two otherwise dren from contracting the disease with vacci­ discuss our knowledge and its limits, hopefully entrenched political positions. Weinberg nations. On the other hand, there are limits we can better address complex problems that acknowledged that these kinds of technolog­ to what we know and challenges to imple­ exist or may loom on the horizon. As Albert ical fixes—seat belts and atom bombs—did menting our existing knowledge in responsible Einstein once said: “We cant solve problems not always produce ideal outcomes, but they ways. For instance, for three decades, DDT by using the same kind of thinking we used could at least provide temporary solutions was a commonly used pesticide until long­ when we created them.” Part of the challenge for pressing problems until long-term plans term studies demonstrated its carcinogenic in generating new knowledge is figuring out of social action could be worked out. properties and negative effects on reproductive what we know and what questions to ask—of In the 1990s Bruno Latour, a French health. In 1935 the Australian government our technologies, our experiences, and our scholar, similarly argued that humans rou­ imported the cane toad to act as a predator history. SI tinely marshaled technology as a moral agent for the cane beetle, an insect whose larvae had to bring about outcomes that education been devastating farmers’ sugar-cane crops. Professor Fisher was on and legislation alone could not. Latour, But the toads had little to no impact on beetle sabbatical last semester working like Weinberg, asserted that humans could populations, and with few natural predators of on a series of articles on the not be relied upon to act responsibly. For their own the poisonous toads rapidly multi­ history of electrical science ITv:- example, he argued that speed bumps were plied and spread, quickly becoming a danger * and technology supported by developed to force drivers to obey posted to indigenous animals and humans. In short, a grant from the Andrew W. speed limits and to ensure they drove more the consequences of our actions have not Mellon Foundation for junior faculty scholarly slowly and cautiously through populated always been well understood. endeavors.

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A tale of New York and

California, Coca-Cola and

Sunkist, the American Dream

and nirvana, and two men

who sold the world

by Douglas Sackman

distinguished professor of history

Mad Men's Don Draper, the hard-drinking ladies' man with a mysterious past and an uncanny knack for telling stories that sell products, had a real-life counterpart who shared his first name: Don Francisco. But while Don Francisco got his start in California working on the Sunkist account and ended his career at a big firm in New York in the 1950s, the fictional Don Draper started his advertising career in the Big Apple and by the end of the show was drawn to California, partly by Sunkist. Putting the real and fictional ad men Dons side by side can show us a great deal about how advertising in general—and the selling of Sunkist and Coca-Cola in particular— reflected and shaped the American Dream. And warped it as well. atthew Weiners acclaimed beginnings extending a promise of magical television show Mad Men, reinvention. which in seven seasons man­ Since at least 1848, when the United M aged to present a sweeping States took over the Far West from the Dons cultural history of America transitioning of Mexico and gold was discovered in its from the tamped-down father-knows-best mountains, California has loomed large in 1950s to the loose and mind-expanding the American imagination as a promised psychedelia of the late 1960s, is built around land, its light drawing millions from Ameri­ the story of a New York advertising firm cas heartland. Among those heeding the call and its Brylcreemed and beehived staff. Don have been Midwesterners like Frank Baum, Draper is the protagonist, and as viewers who in his early career in Chicago gave mod­ follow the storyline they discover that he is ern consumer marketing a boost by inventing not who he says he is. His real name is Dick theatrical department-store window displays Whitman, which suggestively combines the and who then went to California to compose names of the great poet who strove to express fanciful stories about an Emerald City where the heart of America and the Mad Men-cia. you could become your truest and best self; president from California, whose bald-faced and Walt Disney, whose mouse roared when deceptions earned him the nickname Tricky he brought Mickey to California and set him Dick. But Draper discarded that identity so up first in the movies and then in a Magic he could assume the name of his command­ Kingdom that looked like a manifestation ing officer killed in Korea, an opportunistic of Baums Oz. Though less heralded, Don move that got him out of the war and on to Francisco, who was born in Michigan and a new life. who first worked for Sunkist in Chicago, Draper is his own double in the show, joined the emigrants and employed Califor­ a shell game of a man for everyone around nia’s magic to sell something to American him—wives, lovers, children, bosses, clients, consumers. and co-workers. In time he realizes this: In Franciscos case, it was oranges. But He is a man emptied out by years of dou­ oranges at first were an unlikely product ble-dealing, trickery, adultery, drinking, and to get the mass-marketing treatment. As duplicity. Don rises and falls and rises again, Francisco explained, when Sunkist launched but his struggles are all part of his journeys its first major campaign in 1907 it was an larger arc, for he is questing, in classic Amer­ “attempt to use the tools of the manufacturer ican fashion, for some kind of truth about on one of natures perishable fruits.” Conven­ himself. And also in classic American fash­ tional wisdom had held that “an orange was ion, that questing leads him west, toward the just an orange. It grew on a tree, and when sunset, toward California—the place of new it was ripe somebody ate it. ... An orange

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Mexico and gold was discovered in its mountains, California has loomed large in the

American imagination as a promised land, its light drawing millions from America's

heartland. Among those heeding the call have been Midwesterners like Frank Baum,

who in his early career in Chicago gave modern consumer marketing a boost by inventing

theatrical department-store window displays and who then went to California to compose

fanciful stories about an Emerald City where you could become your truest and best self.

would resist any attempt to make it a partic­ drink orange juice on a massive scale. In fact, I ular orange. Moreover, “nature was a notably by the 1920s only one beverage outpaced poor manufacturer when it came to turning orange juice sales—Coca-Cola. Whereas in t out standardized fruits that were absolutely its early days, Coke had sold its product as I

alike in size, appearance, and eating quality.” a magical health beverage and “nerve tonic,” 3 Though Francisco did not invent the Francisco had taken over this market niche, 2 brand name for oranges, he did invent lit­ proclaiming orange juices superiority to £ r eral branding—he experimented in his own “artificial” beverages: It was the real health o kitchen with a stove and flyswatter to burn thing. The competition is reflected by the fact a name into each orange. More important, that a Coca-Cola billboard hung right next to • though, was figurative branding—the set of Sunkists in Times Square. associations Francisco gave his company’s In selling oranges and orange juice, Fran­ product to make it attractive to consumers, cisco capitalized on the long association of even irresistible. To figure out what would California with sunshine and good health (a work best, Francisco pioneered market claim augmented by the presence of vitamin research. Doing what he called a “test tube C when it was discovered in the 1920s). analysis” in Chicago and New York as well Whether they lived in Peoria, Pittsburgh, or as rural towns, he and his agents went from the mean streets of New York City, consum­ door to door asking questions. He wanted ers could eat an orange and be revitalized to find out what people ate, what they read, through contact with California. They could Don Francisco also came up with the "drink what they thought about, what influences symbolically be kissed by the sun. In his work an orange" campaign, getting Americans for Sunkist, Don Francisco accomplished a affected them, and why they took various to drink orange juice on a massive scale. publications. “We get more inspiration from slick reinvention of nature, packaging oranges In fact, by the 1920s only one beverage a day in New York ... than we do in a week as elixirs of health and tickets to Califor- outpaced orange juice sales—Coca-Cola. in the groves,” he said. He found that Sun- nia-style self-fulfillment. kist needed to blanket the marketplace with images of all kinds and sizes—ads, window BICOASTAL displays, billboards—all pointing potential Don Francisco went on to a long and suc­ consumers to the California orange as an cessful career in advertising. He worked on object of desire. Sunkist talked about how what many consider the first modern-media they “attacked” New York with ads, putting political campaign, in which he managed to up 1,400 posters and neon-lit billboards, give Upton Sinclair, the socialist writer run­ such as one in Times Square that was seen by ning for governor of California in 1934, the a million people a day. reverse Sunkist treatment: He created adver­ Francisco also came up with the “drink tising that made him seem unpalatable, 100 an orange” campaign, getting Americans to percent less wholesome than the competing

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product and supremely unhealthy for the their regular life is so bleak and unfulfilling. body politic. (Watch out, Bernie Sanders!) Draper’s spectacular faux pas before the After helping create the Voice of America cocoa execs derails his plans to move to Cali­ during World War II, Francisco ascended to fornia and take over the Sunkist account, and New York, where he served as vice president perhaps save his marriage and even find him­ and director of the J. Walter Thompson self. But Draper in fact has been oscillating New York and California Company until his retirement in 1956. Its between East and West for the entire run of almost as if he could have passed the baton the show, for he has given the widow of the represent antipodes of the to Don Draper. In any event, Draper carries man whose identity he assumed a house in on Franciscos kind of work, ingeniously Southern California and she has, against all American dream, the tail attaching promises of dream-realization to odds, become a beloved confidante whom the mundane objects for sale on supermarket he has visited from time to time. Now his and head on the coin of shelves. second wife pursues the mirage of an act­ But Don Draper’s sham existence finally the realm. Each symbolizes ing career and moves to California for her seems to fall apart at the end of season six, dreams, so Draper has another reason to go a kind of heightened when he gives two pitches to Hershey Choc­ West while on furlough. But he also goes olate executives. The first is a brilliant if also back to New York to maintain the fiction reality and perfection wholly fabricated vignette of father and son that he is still working, having failed to tell communing in the suburban dreamscape, his wife of his suspension. By plane, Draper that is the polar opposite with a Hershey bar portrayed as its sancti­ crisscrosses the continent, no more finding fying wafer. The second is a true look into peace with himself than a bug flying back of the other—country the underbelly of American life, a brothel, and forth between two lights at night. where fatherless Don actually grew up, where and city, innocence and the spare change of johns was exchanged for CALIFORNIA DREAMING chocolate. In the show, as in American popular culture, sophistication, sunshine The two pitches, one perfect and one dis­ New York and California represent antipodes and nightlife, surfing and cordant, are an act of self-destruction (Draper of the American dream, the tail and head is forced to take a leave of absence from the on the coin of the realm. Each symbolizes a Sinatra. firm), but his willingness to take off his own kind of heightened reality and perfection that mask indicates he is on the path of self-dis­ is the polar opposite of the other—country closure and discovery. At the same time the and city, innocence and sophistication, sun­ scene seems to deconstruct all advertising, shine and nightlife, surfing and Sinatra. But yet strangely affirms its power and promise: Americas heartland, jealous and enthralled by It lies relentlessly in a self-interested manner the coastal meccas, nonetheless suspects that but can also provide avenues of escape for an insidious artificiality exists in the heart of those who, like the young Don, desperately each place, compromising its claims to per­ reach out to make its promises real because fection: “Hollywood” and “Madison Avenue”

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arc California and New York’s grand synecdo­ Don tries to leave this strange hotel in the ches of dissimulation. Behind his handsome Golden State but is informed that there is no and charismatic facade, Draper is the quiv­ way out for a few days. His experience paral­ ering embodiment of these two factories of lels that of Jonathan Lieberson, a New York illusion, the hollow man behind the curtain. philosopher and critic who, finding himself Don Draper makes one final trip to alienated and with no means of immediate California, but this one is different because egress, penned a piece called “Escape from Draper's experience he does it on the ground, driving westward, Esalen,” in which he called the place a “pecu­ from sea to sea, recapitulating the westerly liar mixture of a singles resort and a lunatic parallels that of Jonathan journey celebrated by countless American asylum.” writers, from Horace Greeley to John Stein­ Draper may at first view it the same way. Lieberson, a New York beck and Jack Kerouac—or Walt Whitman, He reaches for a payphone to place a per­ for that matter. But the narrative DNA of son-to-person call to his professional protege, philosopher and critic who, Drapers story is much older, for it parallels Peggy, in New York, telling her goodbye. the spiritual pathway that Siddhartha took to Is he about to end it, or start anew? After finding himself alienated become the Buddha. Like Siddhartha, Draper hanging up he spends hours slumped on the is exasperated by his life of meaningless lux­ ground beneath the redwood beams of the and with no means of ury and sets out to find and feel something, institute’s natural architecture, not unlike immediate egress, penned anything, real. He travels through the heart­ Siddhartha, lost in thought beneath his tree. land, discarding worldly possessions along But complete enlightenment does not yet a piece called "Escape the way—including his shiny Cadillac with come to Draper. First he needs to attend a mile-long fins, the ultimate chariot of afflu­ Gestalt group therapy session, where he expe­ from Esalen," in which he ent apotheosis. His belongings reduced to riences a profound moment of compassion the contents of a small white bag, Draper has for a man who feels forlorn and discarded called the place a "peculiar come back to earth. He hitches rides to Cali­ (comparing himself to a product on a refrig­ fornia, and when he arrives in a haggard state erator shelf that is never chosen); Don drapes mixture of a singles resort at the home of his Active niece (the real Don his arms around the man and joins him in a

Drapers niece), he explains that he’s been “on tearful embrace. Now he is ready to sit cross- and a lunatic asylum." the road”—a nod to Kerouac s novel of wan­ legged on a sun-drenched bluff to give him­ dering west and searching. self over wholly to a meditation session. Sud­ Draper ends up in Big Sur near one of denly he wakes up, not in the city that never Kerouac’s favorite haunts (and where Henry sleeps, but above the waves of the Pacific. His Miller before him wrote about “the oranges enlightenment instantly transmogrifies into a of Hieronymus Bosch”), joining his niece at a vision—a vision of the perfect ad. retreat modeled after the actual Esalen Insti­ On a hilltop reminiscent of Big Sur tute—a 1960s epicenter for crossing Eastern bluffs, youth of all races and nations begin philosophy with Western counterculture. singing about giving the world a home, with

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depending on the eye of the beholder, either beautifully amplified a message of love,

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apple trees and honey bees, with love and seemed inseparable, and for a long while Source notes from the author: turtle doves. The fictional show ends with this served the company well. Last summer I first learned about Don Fran­ this ad, which was actually a very real Coke Scott Greenfield T6, a senior history major cisco and Sunkist advertising commercial (the “Hilltop” ad broadcast in at Puget Sound, won a university research when doing research for my 1971). In one voice, the youths, each hold­ grant to investigate Coke advertising in the book Orange Empire: Califor­ ing a bottle labeled “Coca-Cola” but spelled first decades of the 20th century. Looking at nia and the Fruits of Eden. For out in different languages, continue with the print ads in The American Magazine, Scott jingles indelible verse: “I’d like to teach the uncovered how Coke played on “a precon­ more information on advertis­ I world to sing, in perfect harmony. I’d like to ceived notion of an identifiable ‘American ing and American culture, see buy the world a Coke, and keep it company. experience’” and also took “liberties in clas­ T.J. Jackson Lears. Fables of ... What the world wants today, is the real sifying its interpretation of the American Abundance; Roland Marchand, thing.” Considered to be one of the most dream.’” The advertising associated the bev­ Advertising the American Dream; successful ads of all time, this iconic commer­ erage with ruddy-cheeked attractive white William Leach, Land of Desire cial, depending on the eye of the beholder, Americans, wholesomely enjoying life in the (which tells the story of Frank either beautifully amplified a message of love, greatest country on Earth, often as not with Baum and merchandising); and harmony, and equality, or it capitalized on a picket fence in the background. But by Thomas Frank, The Conquest of those idealistic sentiments to create a junior the 1960s, Coke being the cool beverage of the Cool. Jonathan Lieberson's UN rip-off designed to hawk sugar water. straight-up suburban Americanness seemed The ad is perhaps the culminating move in square. Its main rival sought to capitalize essay "Escape from Esalen" can the decade-long struggle waged by Madison on the Zeitgeist with its own hip Pepsi Gen­ be found in West of the West: Avenue to turn youthful rebellion, much eration ads. Coke had to catch up with the Imagining California. Incidentally, of it ostensibly aimed at consumerism, into times. To get to the hilltop with its vision of part of the title for this piece yet another engine to sell products—what peace and love and an MLKish version of comes from David Bowie's album Thomas Frank calls “the conquest of the the American dream, Coke underwent an The Man Who Sold the World, cool.” epic cultural journey of its own that paral­ released in November 1970—at leled that of Don Draper and Mad Men as a the very same time that Don THE REALTHING? whole. Did these journeys to the multicul­ supposedly has his awakening In Mad Men, Coke is the pinnacle of tural mountain mean that the nation had at Esalen. Nirvana (the band!) accounts, synonymous with the heights of ended up at a better place by the end of the advertising as an enterprise. In fact, when 1960s? Is Matthew Weiner portraying that would later cover Bowie's song, Peggy is trying to talk Don off the cliff, as it venture as mostly positive, affirming the which speaks of doubles, ghosts, were, and bring him back East to work, she cultural changes of the era—its progress on a search for self on the land and dangles the prospect in front of him: “Don’t gender and race relations, its escape from over hills, and a persona who you want to work on Coke?” Yet in the 1960s the coerced and deceptive perfection of die sold the world and may have lost Coke was in some ways trapped by its prior 1950s—or is Mad Men a rejoinder to those himself in the process. success. It had so intertwined its product narratives, painting the period as responsible with a vision of Americanness that the two for the undoing of America?

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Don’s enlightenment at the very end That’s a worthy interpretation, but the show’s Doug Sackman enjoys teaching of the series follows a series of vignettes in ending may be aiming for something higher. and researching the history of which other major characters find love and Nirvana is a concept of complex associations and Native Americans, human rela­ professional fulfillment, some kind of hap­ roots, signifying bliss and enlightenment about tions to the environment, and piness and greater self-realization, at least for the true nature of reality. Etymologically the the North American West. He is a moment—seemingly supporting the idea word means “to be blown,” as in a candle’s flame the author of Orange Empire: that the show intended to convey that there being extinguished. For some it means utter tran­ California and the Fruits of was, after all, an upward arc of progress. But quility, or the transcendence of ego, or the letting Eden; Wild Men: Ishi and it’s startling and a bit surreal to end on such go of all material goods, or happiness not just Kroeber in the Wilderness of notes, for the series as a whole trafficked in so pursued but attained, or the peace that comes Modern America; and the editor much heartache, betrayal, and insidious injus­ from freedom from desire. Nirvana is at once ful­ of A Companion to American tice. So it is perhaps natural to see the “happy” fillment and emptiness, a paradox suited perfectly Environmental History. He is ending of Mad Men as ironic, if not outright to the consumer culture version of the American currently working on a book titled sarcastic—as if its core message was that dream that the two Dons, and countless ad men American Panorama: Rediscov­ Draper, and by extension commercial capi­ and women like them, have bequeathed to us. ering the History of the North talism, could and would co-opt, corrupt, and Every thing is advertised as if it will give us nir­ American West. abuse “peace and love,” like everything else. vana, but of course no thing can. SI

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46 Scrapbook WHAT WE DO: Northwest Repertory Singers

A Logger musical family

We’ve done a few stories over the years on places where numerous Puget Sound grads work. Here’s one where a bunch of alumni volunteer to do something they love that makes people smile.

For more chan 20 members ofTacomas Northwest Reper­ tory Singers, the groups tradition of creating a beautiful sound started when they were Puget Sound students in the Adelphian Concert Choir. Paul Schulz, former conductor for the Adelphians and cur­ rent NWRS artistic director, has the same vision for NWRS as he did with the on-campus choral group: a high standard of musical integrity and a heartfelt interpretation of every note and rhythm on the page. Paul founded NWRS in 2001 not only to delight Tacoma audiences, but also to provide a way for amateur musicians to express their creative energy. People who have experienced quality singing in a choir like the Adelphians often feel a void in their lives and can satisfy this need by performing with a group like NWRS. Monday night rehearsals can be exhausting, but they are also therapeutic. As Robin Gleason Friend 70 elaborates, “Performing mu­ sic at a level that creates those transcendent moments where a group comes together and does something bigger than any or all of us—that is what it’s all about. NWRS provides the profes­ sional-level choral experience that we wanted to continue after graduation.” “Today I sing with two former college housemates and the brother of another housemate,” says NWRS Assistant Director Kyle Haugen ’97, “plus other alumni friends from the Adel­ phians and from the campus in general.” Taking time out from an evening rehearsal, Over the years NWRS has collaborated with The Coats (a standing, from left: Robin Gleason Friend '70, Seattle-based a cappella singing group), the Tacoma Youth Cho­ Melissa Ivie '01, Tom Walworth '00 M.A.T/01, Jen rus, Magical Strings, and the Tara Academy of Irish Dance. In Traeger Pacquer '97; Kristi Bowman Morgan '93 Margie Skreen Dickerson '85, and Ken Pacquer 2002, as part of the “Rolling Requiem” to commemorate the '94 Back row, seated, from left: Francis Reynolds first anniversary of 9/11 the group presented Mozarts Requiem. '10, M.A.T.T1; Ross Aker '96, M.A.T/97 Jason In December NWRS entered its 15th season with its Best Neighbors '00 Kyle Haugen '97; and Andrew of the West Christmas program. In March it will present “An Reed '87 Middle row, seated, from left: Melanie Explosion of Sound,” featuring Haydns Lord Nelson Mass, and Locke '03; Kathy Kaminoff Weymiller '86, J.D/93, Jeff Johnson '90, Kris Petersen Rennie '86, and in May it will reprise “Song of the Salish Chief,” narrated by the Tom Martin '96 Front row, seated, from left: Rev. Roy Wilson. Performances are at Mason United Methodist Carolyn Johnson '99 and Julie MacDonald Martin Church in Tacoma, (nwrs.org) '96 Other members of NWRS not pictured Joan Focusing on diction, vowels, posture, breathing, rhythm, Davies Rapp '62, M.Ed.'79, P'90, Jerry Rapp '62 and notes may have been the technical experience of being an P'90, Sharon Meyer Steames '85, Jennifer Kullby '14 and Jennifer Mayer '15 Adelphian, but the “heart connection” is something born of the Puget Sound experience, and it continues at each NWRS re­ hearsal and concert. — Kristi Bowman Morgan '93

winter 2016 arches 27 WHA1 WE DO: Brad Epperson VI

A calling

Most students attend college to prepare for hosting a sports talk show on Sundays than giv­ to Washington, where Brad went through three their next step in life. Many arrive knowing ing a sermon. Still, he decided to take the offer years of training, formation, and exams to be­ what that next step is; others don’t figure it in Sacramento. come ordained in the Presbyterian denomination. out until after graduation. Brad Epperson falls “Youth ministry seemed like a good place Ordination made Brad official. He was certi­ among the latter group, and if, as an under­ to start. As cliched as it sounds, it did feel like fied to be a minister anywhere in the country, graduate, you were to have told him where his a calling.” and he and Heather embarked on a nationwide life was headed, there’s a good chance he’d have Those fleeting thoughts about the ministry search. Looking far and wide they finally ended laughed. had taken place long before Brad received a the job search after several months when Brad re­ Brad was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and literal call from his former youth pastor. When ceived another offer he had never expected. It was moved to Tacoma when he was five, but he Brad was just a little boy his family was driving from a church he knew well, The Little Church considers himself a Tacoman through and past a hospital, and there he spotted a pastor on the Prairie, in Lakewood, Wash., where his through. Like many of us growing up, Brad going in to visit patients. Brad could not com­ family had worshipped when he was a boy. The didn’t know exactly what he was going to be. prehend why anyone would voluntarily go into church offered him a position as associate pastor, He had a few ideas, though: firefighter, police a hospital. That image of the pastor sparked a role he humbly accepted and fulfills to this day. officer, major league baseball player. If he wasn’t years of rumination in Brad. Brad had never really seen himself as a pastor one day drafted by the Seattle Mariners he “I just thought it was incredible that this and most certainly never imagined working in would likely go to the police academy or fire­ guy was going into a hospital to comfort some­ the very church he grew up in. Looking back at it fighter school. Of this he was almost certain. one who was sick. I wondered why anyone today, he has a unique angle on it all: But with three months left in his senior would do that, and the more I wondered, the “It’s funny. When you’re a kid and thinking year, Brad still didn’t have firm plans. He de­ more I began to see Jesus in people who do about what you want to be when you grow up, no cided that if something didn’t present itself by things like that. It really made an impression one says, ‘The ministry sounds good.’ As much as graduation he would become a police officer. on me. In time I went from wondering why he I ruminated on the sense of a calling, I equally de­ That’s when he got a call from his former youth would do that to wondering if /could do that.” sired other professions. But for some reason here pastor, who proposed that Brad move to Sacra­ Freshly graduated from Puget Sound, Brad I am, and I actually like it. There was definitely a mento, Calif., and become a junior-high youth got the opportunity to answer that question. moment of surrender along the way, when I real­ pastor. While Brads faith was important in his He married his high school sweetheart, Heath­ ized that I wasn’t some great guy with a skill set life, the ministry was something he had pon­ er Macpherson Epperson ’01, and they moved that is unique to me and because of it I’d be God’s dered only fleetingly. For one thing, both of his to California. gift to the world. Instead I realized that God was parents worked in sports media. His father had Brad enjoyed his experience as a youth pas­ shaping and equipping me, then and now. No been a TV sportscaster in Idaho Falls, and his tor and followed it up by earning a Master of magic skill set, no outstanding qualities, just... mother a producer for the station. If pedigree Divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary me. Flawed, but willing.” was any influence, Brad was more likely to be in Pasadena. He and Heather then returned — Ben Kastenbaum '12

28 arches winter 2016 WHAT WE DO: Colleen Dyble ’00 and Portland Reed ’95

) A business that ). brings life to communities

To say that the paths of Portland Reed ’95 and Colleen Dyble ’00 crossed would be an un­ derstatement. In 2002 their paths crashed into each other. Portland and Colleen had been living parallel lives in Washington, D.C. They lived near each other. They rode the same bus to work each day, and their office buildings were separated by just a parking lot. But they’d never met. “You know how it is in D.C.,” Colleen Colleen (left) and Portland: "Basically, we're getting paid to be who we are." recounts. “You don’t really strike up conversa­ tions with strangers at a Metrobus stop.” And yet there you are. Every day. So you tanks in more than 80 countries. She also holder earnings, B Corp businesses put human­ ) get curious and ask a question: “Where’d you developed businesses with a Peruvian microfi­ ity back into business. go to school?” nance institute before founding Vita Global. “Everyone knows what fair trade certification 1 Which is how in a city of 750,000 people, Along the way Colleen met prime ministers, is to coffee, or what US DA Organic certification two Puget Sound grads found each other and Nobel Prize laureates, and heads of state. is to milk,” Colleen says. “B Corp certification soon also found their shared values. Despite divergent work experiences, the is for business. As such, Vita Global aspires not “The randomness of it just defies logic,” women shared a desire to alleviate extreme only to be the best in the world but to be the says Portland. poverty through entrepreneurship. And so they best for the world.” Fifteen years after that fateful meeting, on a created Vita Global, a social impact advisory Throughout our conversation, Colleen and cold October day, vague electro-pop fills the air company that believes focusing on people and Portland express a deep sense of purpose con­ as Colleen and I conference-call Portland from the environment is the optimal way for a busi­ cerning their role in society. the second floor of a Sheraton in Arlington, ness to increase its double bottom line: profit “Basically, who we are and what we do are Va. Now business partners, the two are sepa­ and citizenship. aligned,” Portland says. “That is the ultimate in rated by a bit more than a parking lot—1,500 Portland explains, “There’s no shortage of life. When a company desires to bring humanity miles divide Portland’s office in Scottsdale, companies that want to do good for society, to business, that’s a social good. When it desires Ariz., from Colleen’s in Virginia (HQ for their but there’s a lack of resources and knowledge to do so and increase profits, that’s a B Corp,” company, Vita Global Inc.). about how to do it as a means of increasing she continues. “I absolutely believe that each Our conversation starts with their back­ profits. That’s where Vita Global can help.” individual is unique and that if you don’t do grounds. Before becoming business partners, For example, with its client WEConnect what you’re designed to do, it doesn’t get done. each had already established fierce individual International, Vita Global designed and built So join us in projects of impact so that every­ careers. Portland had earned a law degree with a framework to connect thousands of women- one gets to benefit from your presence on this an emphasis in tax and securities at the Univer­ owned businesses with corporate supply Earth.” I sity of Illinois. She did a stint with the Chicago chains. Portland and Colleen helped WECon­ Whether they’re speaking to entrepreneurs I Board of Trade, founded a corporate finance nect achieve its 2013 Clinton Global Initiative in Ghana or a fellow Logger in Arlington, the firm, and helped a Virginia attorney establish Commitment to Action for $1.5 billion in women’s empathy and experience seem to make his own firm. Then for seven years she was a li­ global contract opportunities for women- distance evaporate. censed securities rep for The Vanguard Group, owned businesses outside of the U.S. “I want to help shape the next generation of a private investment company. Vita Global recently joined the ranks of global entrepreneurs who will use their business­ Colleen completed a masters in interna­ Kickstarter, Ben & Jerry’s, Etsy, and Patagonia es to meet deep needs in the world and create a tional commerce and policy at George Mason to become one of 1,400-plus certified B Corp better life for those around them,” Colleen says. University and for eight years worked with the (short for Benefit Corporation) companies. And that is something we all can profit from. Atlas Network to help establish global think Instead of being only about profits and share­ — Ian Fox '14

winter 2016 arches 29 Faculty check in on Pondering this, Carsten (f) CD their former students conceived the idea of investing cu in alignment with ones social E values. At age 22, Carsten

30 arches winter 2016 Faculty check in on come involved with art- ists working on issues of ® their former students solitary-confinement aboli- ~ tion in U.S. prisons. She J Abigail Phillips ’ll is the landscape designer w for Solitary Gardens. The Soul-searching projects website states: “The Solitary Gardens are at the intersection of pub­ by Denise M. Glover, visiting assistant lic art, alternative land-use, professor of sociology and anthropology and social sculpture. The project, imagined by artist 1 first met Abi Phillips in the classroom—a rou­ Jackie Sumell, will utilize tine encounter between professor and student. garden beds designed after She was inquisitive and motivated. 6-by-9-foot solitary cells And she had soul. as a physical platform for So what does that mean? One who cares, collaboration, education, not necessarily about receiving top grades (al­ and commiseration be­ though often that is a byproduct) but about tween persons subjected to discovery, and about the community of learn­ indefinite solitary confine­ ers she is involved with. In that first class, my ment, and volunteers on environmental anthropology course, Abi and the outside.” several of her classmates took to heart the is­ Abi told me that the ! sues we discussed about over-consumption and city of New Orleans has sustainability, and she spearheaded a campaign donated two lots in the on campus to raise awareness about the use of Lower Ninth Ward (the I disposable cups at Diversions Cafe. She and area heavily affected by s friends set up a tabic in Diversions and handed Hurricane Katrina) for 1 out free ceramic mugs (which they had pur­ the project, on a two-year > chased with their own money from a local thrift lease. People in solitary Abi (in maroon) and assistants working in the Wisdom Academy S store) for alternative use in the cafe. She even confinement are collabo­ o Garden at Spann Elementary School, Jackson, Miss. rators, getting to decide $ created a social-networking site related to the a cause. Abi was a sophomore then. It was a small what the gardens will § project (she would later go on to establish the awareness about nutrition and sustainability, contain, whether that be plants or barbed wire. permaculture garden on campus), but she had mostly to families living below the poverty One co-designer, Albert Woodfox, has been in the passion to put her ideas into action. level in urban communities. solitary confinement for 43 years. His desire That was in 2009. The relationship between Abi s experience with FoodCorps inspired was for vegetables to be planted in the garden Abi and me turned out not to be routine; we her to consider designing food gardens for he designed so chat children could bring the became friends, we stayed in touch, she took hospitals (which she later found out was a bu­ vegetables home to share with their families—a care of our family dog on occasion, and she reaucratic nightmare and decided against pur­ profound decision for someone who has not continues to be a source of inspiration for me. suing). She enrolled in the masters program been allowed to be a member of society or live While still at Puget Sound, Abi went to in landscape architecture at The University of in a family for the majority of his adult life. India for a semester abroad, and I remember Georgia in 2013. After two years in graduate On a recent call, Abi explained to me that reading her writings during the time she was school in Athens, and after living for a short she was confident she could find a job at a there. She was moved by what she saw, deeply while in New Orleans while working for a landscape firm after completing her MA in touched and likely forever changed. What going landscape architecture firm, Abi transferred May 2016. But she did worry that she does to India seemed to bring out in her was how to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge not quite fit the mold of a “typical” landscape much she wanted to return and make a differ­ in the fall of 2015 to finish out her masters. designer, in that she is interested not just in ence at home, as I remember her phrasing it. Her decision to transfer was based in large design but in social justice issues. And so, after graduating from Puget Sound part on the reputation of the Robert Reich This is not surprising to me. Abi has man­ in 2011, Abi became a FoodCorps volunteer. School of Landscape Architecture at LSU, and aged to put soul into landscape architectun She was in the first cohort of such volunteers the commitment of the professors and the and I imagine she will continue to do so in and ended up spending two years in Mississippi school at large to help students find gainful anything else she sets her mind to. If that is working with students in the public school employment. not inspiring, and anything ocher than routine, system, building food gardens, and bringing Since moving to Louisiana, Abi has be- I don’t know what is.

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Richard Hohnbaum Jerry Thorpe checks elementary-school teacher to the livestock, pets, and wildlife After 26 years as an c/5 SB writes to update us: in: "I have been re­ be elected president of the lo­ that populate a working ranch. air traffic controller 05 m\ m “After I graduated from Puget tired from teaching since 1997, cal teachers' union. At the time, and three more years as an AT CO Sound I spent three and a half but a super opportunity brought the Tacoma Education Asso­ instructor. Matt McCully retired E years on the Spokane Indian me back into the Tacoma school ciation was the second-largest In An Oct. 2 Seattle in September. "Retirement is C/5 Times column about C/5 Reservation as a representative district: head librarian at Mount labor union in Washington. Dur­ not overrated," he told us. Matt CO of the Washington State Hu­ Tahoma High School for the ing her 30-year career she was Congress allowing the Land and says these days his focus is on o man Resources Department. 2014-15 school year. I had more a member of the WEA board Water Conservation Fund to two "G"s: grandkids and golf. I moved to Cordova. Alaska, fun than any teacher should and was asked by the NEA to expire quotes Charlie Raines for eight years, teaching fourth ever have. Imagine, no home­ testify before Congress on is­ B.S/70, B.A/71, forest con­ grade, then returned to the work to give or grade, no tests, sues related to education. She servation director of Forterra, HKIBfo Deanna Watson lower 48 and taught school in no lesson plans, no parent con­ also held leadership positions a Seattle-based conservation : - Oppenheimer Woodburn. Ore. I was the first ferences. It was heaven. The in the International Reading As­ group. The article notes that the P'11, P'14 was in September a male first-grade teacher in a kids, staff, and administration sociation. devoted to promoting Land and Water Conservation panelist at Securing America's public school in Oregon and were great." literacy. The national Alpha Phi Fund was invented in Washing­ Future: The Liberal Arts in Ac­ then the first male kindergarten sorority presented her with the ton in the 1960s by Sen. Henry tion, a symposium hosted by teacher in a public school in Ursula Major award for com­ "Scoop” Jackson and passed The Council of Independent Oregon. I retired from teach­ mm j°hn Huahes munity service in 1980. United the Senate then by a 92-1 vote. Colleges in Washington, D.C. ing in 1990 and became the frffVa&L! writes to tell us he’s Way of Pierce County, in 1987. But allowing the fund to expire The meeting was the capstone manager of the Salem Chamber got a new book out: Pressing conferred its Community Ser­ means all wild-lands projects are event of Securing America's Orchestra at Willamette Univer­ On: Two Family-Owned News­ vice Award for her involvement on hold, including many popular Future: The Power of Liberal sity. I am now manager of an papers in the 21st Century. on its board, and she again local hiking trails that cross pri­ Arts Education, CIC's public 80-plus voice mixed chorus of about the Blethen family of received the award in 1989 for vately held land. information campaign about the seniors in Salem. Ore., called The Seattle Times, and Wilfred presenting training modules to value of the liberal arts. It fea­ Just For Fun Singers. I am Woods '42 and Rufus Woods nonprofit boards. She and her tured speakers who are alumni The Seattle Times' also treasurer of the Oregon '80 of The Wenatchee World. brother Domenick Federico of small, independent liberal Pacific NW magazine, Chapter of the Lewis and Clark John worked '67 received the Distinguished arts colleges. on Sunday, Sept. 25, profiled Trail Heritage Foundation. at The Daily Service to Puget Sound Alumni Dick Boushey, calling him My first wife. Glee Callahan World in Ab­ Award in 2013. In 2014 she was 35th erdeen for 42 Washington's best wine-grape Hohnbaum '54. died of cancer awarded the Alpha Sigma State June; m grower. Dick first started plant­ 2?16: in 1977.1 am now married to years, rising Lifetime Achievement Award ing grapes in the Yakima Valley in frv* Cathy, and through marriage from paper car­ by The Delta Kappa Gamma 1980. Today he owns 160 acres • Susan Lowe we have six children, 12 grand­ rier and copy Society International for women of wine grapes. "Winemakers ;iL Spence M.B.A/81 boy to editor educators. This year she was on children. and eight great-grand­ love working with Boushey not joined the staff of the Fessen­ and publisher. He then became the Tacoma Musical Playhouse children. I'm active in the Keizer only because of his ability to den School, an independent Clear Lake United Methodist chief historian for the state's board, and she is currently co­ grow world-class grapes, but boys' boarding and day school oral history program, which is chairing (with Maureen Finley Church." also because he loves wine and for pre-kindergarten through facilitated by the Secretary of Hurst '66) her 50th Puget comprehends the process be­ ninth grade in West Newton, State's office. Last April John Sound reunion. Linda tells us. hind making it," the article said. Mass. Susan will be a math Darleen Rowland was honored by the state Sen­ "It is our hope that all alumni tutor at Fessenden. 1962 Dhillon tells us: "I ate and Secretary of State Kim from the Class of 1966 will plan Ceramist Kaaren Stoner just retired after working for 38 Wyman for his 50-year career in to attend this fun-filled reunion M.F.A/73 was lead organizer years in the retail Scandinavian- journalism and work for Legacy on June 10-12, 2016. This will of the Haywood County (N.C.) |«i| Lenda Crawford furniture field. First at Mobilia Washington. His other books be an opportunity to tell our Art Studio Tour in later October, was promoted from here in Berkeley (sales, adver­ are on Sen. Slade Gorton. Gov. stories, share memories, and reported The Mountaineer of Snohomish County, Wash., tising. buying dept.) and then Booth Gardner, and Gov. John show our Logger spirit." Waynesville, N.C. Kaaren's pot­ executive director to deputy in sales at Scandinavian Design Spellman. He did oral histories tery draws its influence from executive. Lenda started work­ Heather Smith Thomas has (known as Dania in Washington/ on civil rights pioneer Lillian nature, depicting leaves, grass­ ing for Snohomish County in two new books out. following Oregon when they took over Walker, journalist Adele Fergu­ es, flowers, trees, and rocks, 2014. She oversees most of the on the success of Horse Tales: the business in 1989). Before son. and former Washington and colors reminiscent of the county's day-to-day operations, True Stories that I worked with my late hus­ first lady Nancy Evans. All are four seasons. At Puget Sound including finance/budget, public from an Idaho band (who was from Northern available as free PDFs on the she studied under the revered works, utilities, human resourc­ Ranch (2014). India) in his import business, Washington Secretary of State F. Carlton Ball. She opened a es, information services, and Cow Tales: and before that I taught French website and as e-books from ceramics studio on the Olympic Paine Field. More True and Spanish in middle school Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Peninsula but finally settled in Stories from Monica Fox Elenbaas writes: for five years. Now I am happy Western North Carolina. an Idaho Ranch "I recently took early retirement to just relax and catch up on 50tl came out this so Jamie [Elenbaas '821 and reading and gardening, as well Jum past October, I The Kitsap Sun I can prepare our 40-foot cata­ as begin to attack the creative maran Grateful for sailing full followed in ji noted in September projects I postponed all those K time, first to the Florida Keys Linda Federico November by that ceramics artist Miles years. I am blessed to live in and then to points unknown. mI Peam was enshrined Ranch Tales: Struxness M.F.A/75 was on the the Berkeley Hills, about four in Tacoma's Stadium High Jamie is wrapping up his work blocks from the famous "Gour­ Stories of 2015 Gig Harbor, Wash., Open School Wall of Recognition. with DuVoice Corp., where he met Ghetto." My son and his Dogs. Cats. Studio Tour. Miles has taught at Linda graduated from Sta­ has been a senior executive for wife visit when they can from and Other Cra­ Pacific Lutheran University, the dium in 1962 and after Puget almost 20 years. We are living Eugene. Ore. I would love to zy Critters. The Gig Harbor campus of Tacoma Sound began her career as a temporarily with his family in hear from anyone who was at book is a collection of humor­ Community College, and Charles kindergarten teacher at Sheri­ Pass Christian, Miss. The boat UPS when I was." drdhillon© ous, heartwarming, and insight­ Wright Academy. He and his dan Elementary. In 1976 she is moored there while we com­ earthlink.net ful true stories about the bonds wife operate a soda kiln on their was the first woman and first plete outfitting her for our grand that form between people and Gig Harbor property. 32 arches winter 2016 *-r-ra­ diance encounters in unlikely places & •• • Those PacRim alumni just seem to turn up everywhere

by Elisabeth Benard, former director of PacRim; retired in 2014

Being the director of Puget Sounds Pacific “I am working for the State Department Rim/Asia Study Travel Program for 20 years, and was assigned to protect the Dalai Lama,” I have traveled a lot and have met former Pac- she said. Rimmers in many, many places. Last April in “Protecting the Dalai Lama!” I exclaimed. New York City, for instance, Chris Turillo ’02, “Yes,” she replied calmly. Then had to re­ who lives in Lucknow, India, and co-directs turn to her job. the nonprofit Medha, which he created, was Another delightful and totally unexpected in town only for a day, but we still managed to UPS-student encounter took place in Osaka, have dinner together. Barely a week passed be­ Japan. Occasionally the PacRim program fore I met Julia Marie Lewin ’06. Julia is now was in Japan at Thanksgiving-time, and a clinical pharmacist, and we spent die day at since in many cases it was the students’ first MOM A and FAO Schwarz. A few weeks after Thanksgiving without their families, some that it was Andrea Hatch ’06, who was at­ kind of weak replication was appreciated. PacRimmers meet Lego Batman at FAO Schwarz: f tending her annual reporting visit to Pencils of In Osaka in 2005 I’d heard about an ex-pat Professor Benard and Julia Marie Lewin '06. ' Promise, the organization for which she works bar that served Thanksgiving dinners if one in Luang Prabang, Laos. Then a month later, pre-ordered them. I asked my staff, Susan been one of my students, but I really could not while visiting my family in Phoenix, I had Taylor and Steve Lanwermeyer ’02, to help place him. Finally he let me off the hook. dinner with Monica Edwards ’13, who was me locate the bar. Japanese addresses can “I know that you teach at UPS, but I never completing her two-year teaching commitment be notoriously vague, and frequently one is had you as a professor. Many of my friends for Teach For America. In another couple of given only the name of a small district as the did, though.” weeks, in San Diego, Miles Pollack ’07, now entire address. It would be similar to saying I was so delighted to meet Kevin Lane ’00 a manager of firefighters for the Bureau of In­ the place is located in the Proctor District that I invited him to join us for Thanksgiv­ dian Affairs, introduced me to his lovely wife, in Tacoma but not providing a precise street ing dinner. Not only did Kevin help us find Heather, and their 16-month-old daughter, name or number. Thus Susan, Steve, and I Tin’s Hall, but when we actually showed up Grace. searched for 45 minutes to locate this bar; on Thanksgiving Day with 25 people and were These visits were all planned, but inevitably we were becoming frustrated and irritable. told that they had forgotten it was Thanksgiv­ there are chance meetings with PacRimmers, Suddenly I spied a young Westerner coming ing, Kevin scrambled to find a replacement too. One of the most memorable came when I down the block. I thought that he must know feast at Royal Host Restaurant. Then Kevin was attending teachings presented by the Dalai where this bar would be. As he approached, called the owner of the bar, who apologized Lama at Beacon Theater in NYC. From behind he gave me a big smile. I asked myself, “Do I and told us to come back the next night for me I heard, “Professor Benard?” Surprised that know this guy?” dinner. Thus we had two Thanksgivings in anyone in New York knew that I was a college We asked if he knew the bar, and he re­ Osaka due to a chance encounter with Kevin. professor, I turned around. Before me stood plied, “Yes! I’ll take you there.” I am always amazed that for a university a slim young woman dressed all in black and As we walked, he asked, “Where do you that has only 2,500 undergraduate students, wearing a security-type earpiece. I recognized come from?” its alumni seem to turn up everywhere and her as a student in the now-defunct Asian I said, “Seattle.” frequently. As Steve Lanwermeyer remarked to Studies 144 class. He said, “You mean Tacoma.” me, “We may be small, but we get around.” “What are you doing?” I asked. Now my mind was racing—he must have Indeed, we do.

adventure that will begin in ear­ their adventures at grateful sion forums on industry trends, Angela Pratt was the obstetrics and gynecology ly 2016. With time on my hands eyesoftheworld.tumblr.com. multidisciplinary works by self­ the subject of a cov- department at Kapiolani Medi­ identifying black Bay Area art- er story in Midweek, a weekly cal Center. You can read the I am reaching out to offer my Karen Jenkins-Johnson was a nonprofit and diversity/inclusion ists. and professional develop- tabloid in Honolulu. In the story full story here: midweek.com/ speaker at Relframel: Examin­ ment workshops. Karen opened we learn that Angela competed dr-angela-pratt-ob-gyn. expertise to groups working on ing the Industry of Art Through the Jenkins Johnson Gallery in in beauty contests to pay her civil rights issues and youth/ an African American Lens, in In December John Williams family issues on the Mississippi San Francisco in 1996 and in way through medical school. San Francisco on Sept. 26. was sworn in as city manager New York in 2005. She earned She is a former Miss Honolulu Gulf Coast. I am also dusting The conference was hosted for Moses Lake. Wash. He’s the off my sewing machine to cre­ her M.B.A. at the Haas School (1986) and Mrs. Hawaii (1999), by the Museum of the African first new city manager in Mo­ of Business at the University of and she is the first woman and ate new gear for the boat!" The Diaspora and presented discus- ses Lake in more than 30 years. Elenbaases are writing about California. Berkeley. first native Hawaiian to head

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Previously John was city manager sales and marketing. George Museum. Now that Ann's three about oysters at places where in plea bargains that do not deter­ ff) for Battle Ground. Wash.; human has more than 30 years of ex- children are in college, she decid- they are farmed, like Hog Island mine guilt or innocence Only 3 0 resources director for Puyal- perience in sales and marketing ed that it was time for a change, and Hama Hama. Sasquatch percent go to trial by jury. Kelly is 03 lup. Wash.; and senior human leadership with a wide range She moved from Fairbanks to books in Seattle is publishing working on a book that attempts E resource analyst/labor relations of businesses, among them Anchorage to take the job. what is her 15th cookbook. Ac­ to answer why it is so difficult manager for Richland. Wash. Energous Corporation, which V) The Washington Association cording to sasquatchbooks. to get a speedy public trial by an 03 he helped take public in 2014. of School Administrators has com, "This luscious cookbook impartial jury in all criminal prose­ O At Puget Sound George was a features recipes, shucking in­ cutions, as the Sixth Amendment Semblant, a maker of named Steven Webb, super­ business major. structions. and the local farming promises. Kelly was a speaker at coatings that protect intendent of Vancouver Public gtg&SgIggj success story of the 7th Annual Smoke Farm Sym­ electronic devices from damage, R. Ann Halvarson Kjera reports Schools, as its 2016 Superinten- the many deli- posium in August. has appointed George Holmes that she has found her dream dent of the Year. Since 2010 the cious oysters chief commercial officer and se­ job as director of human four-year on-time graduation from the Pacific nior vice president for worldwide resources for the Anchorage rate in his district has risen Larry Mana'o is a Coast. From from 64 percent to more than coach for Crossfire Hangtown Hash 80 percent. Steve has led Select, a youth soccer club based with Fried Eggs to Half-Shell efforts to increase program in Kirkland, Wash We note that Oysters with Kimchi-Cucumber About classmates choices in grades K-12, expand Larry appears in the documen­ Relish, this gorgeous cookbook school-community partner­ tary film Next Goal Wins, about features 30 recipes, ideas for ships to meet the needs of the national football team of The Classmates editor is Cathy what to drink with oysters, and poverty-affected children, and American Samoa, which is per­ Tollefson ’83, P’17. You can call her tips for buying, storing, and personalize education with the haps best known for suffering at 253-879-2762 or email ctollefson® shucking to bring out the 'oh!' use of one-to-one technology. the worst loss in international pugetsound.edu. in oysters." According to oregonlive.com, soccer history, 31-0 to Australia. Steve is a hands-on leader who Linda Winters was promoted The team went for more than 17 Where do Classmates entries regularly visits classrooms at his to assistant vice president years without winning a match come from? 37 school sites. of Alaska USA Mortgage until Dutch manager Thomas About half come directly from you. Company. Linda has more than Rongen took over in 2014 to help either in letters or in email updates. 20 years of experience in the it qualify for the Brazil World Cup. The rest are compiled from a variety 30tl financial services industry. At Larry was the team's assistant of public sources such as newspaper Puget Sound. Linda studied coach. The film has been well and magazine clippings, and press Jurv business administration. received, and it is a hit on releases sent to us by employers Erin Cassidy IMDB.com. when, for example, a Puget Sound grad at the company gets a Galeno has expand­ new job. We publish Classmates information both in the print ed her role at the Port of Kelly Vomacka edition of Arches and on the Web in the online version. It is our Tacoma as chief financial officer '87. J.D/90 is a mm In September John policy not to publish pregnancy or engagement announcements, to CFO of NWSA. Tacoma be­ Seattle-based criminal defense L. Scott Real Estate or candidacies for political office. However, we are happy to print came a part of the third largest lawyer. According to the Wash­ named Scott Halligan vice news of births, marriages, and elections to office. Classmates port in the nation when the ington Post. 97 percent of president for Oregon and South­ submissions are edited for style, clarity, and length. We put a lot ports of Tacoma and Seattle unit­ criminal cases in the U.S. result west Washington. Scott has 19 of effort into making sure entries are accurate, but sometimes ed into one entity. According to we slip up. Please let us know if you see incorrect information busmessexaminer.com. Erin has published in Classmates. focused on improving internal This just in ... systems and communication. Scrapbook The standardization of the Port High-resolution digital photos or prints preferred. Kindly identify of Tacoma's systems has al­ alumni in the snapshot. Also, please, for baby pictures, include GOOD TALKERS lowed the two ports to compete alumni parents in the photo. with facilities in Canada and Gene and Julie Jacobson Southern California. Publication deadlines. Gates '90 left the 26th Aug. 15 for the autumn issue, Nov. 15 for winter, Feb. 15 for Judy MacLeod is the new com­ Annual National Association spring. May 15 for summer missioner of Conference USA. of Broadcasters' Marconi an athletics conference of 12 To send Classmates entries or to change your address Radio Awards Dinner universities in the Mid-South Electronically: pugetsound.edu/infoupdate or email Classmates and Southeastern U.S. Judy and Show on Oct. 1 with Editor Cathy Tollefson at [email protected]. had been CUSA's associate ex­ a little bling: a Marconi Post: Arches. University of Puget Sound. Office of Communica­ ecutive commissioner and chief tions. 1500 N. Warner St.. Tacoma WA 98416-1041. Award in the Large-Market operating officer since 2006. Personality of the Year cate­ When submitting a change of address, please include your old She is also serving a two-year gory. Gene and Julie have been hosting a morning address. term as chair of the NCAA Div. I Nominating Committee. She radio show together since 1995—in Los Angeles, San A note on names and abbreviations completed her three-year term Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, and currently in Raleigh, Undergraduate class years appear after names as numerals pre­ on the NCAA Div. I Men's Bas­ ceded by an apostrophe (e.g.. 73). “P"= parent. "GP"= grand­ N.C. Back in 2010 Julie received the university's distin­ ketball Committee in 2015. parent. "Hon.“= honorary degree. For graduate degrees. "M.S."= guished alumni Professional Achievement Award. She master of science; "M.B.A.''= master of business administration; Cynthia Nims' latest cookbook has been active with the Alumni Sharing Knowledge “M.A.T= master of arts in teaching; "M.Ed." = master of educa­ is Oysters: Recipes that Bring (ASK) Network since graduation and loves to mentor tion; “M.RA."= master of public administration; "M.M.”= master Home a Taste of the Sea. To of music; "M.S.O.T.,'' "M.O.T"= master of occupational therapy; research the book Cynthia was up-and-coming broadcasters. Find out more about "D.RT"= doctor of physical therapy; "J.D.''= doctor of law. busy with bivalves in her kitchen this dynamic duo at geneandjulie.com. as well as on the road, learning

34 arches winter 2016 games, culminating in Pat Anunsen riding the arm of Miami Dolphins great Bob Griese to defeat Rick Aeschlimann 46-23 and win the princely sum of $30.22. The prize money has grown over the years, but the fun has always been in the friendships. The biggest hurdle our league faced at first was keeping track of scoring, roster changes, and getting information into the hands of the team “owners.” This was long before smart­ phones, laptops, tablets, or even fax machines. There were no apps for this, and the commis­ sioner (a job to be avoided at all costs) had to scan newspaper sports pages for scoring, collate the information, gather the weekly add/drop of players, and produce a newsletter. Phew! Fortunately our experience cramming for fi­ nals at Puget Sound made these tasks easier to accomplish. At the K-Sigs’ annual get-together last summer, standing, from left: Art Samuelson '74; Richard Tucker '76; Over the years the league has expanded Pat Anunsen '73, P'13; Paul Ferry '71; Peter Lobb '76; Bruce Uppinghouse '73; Don Jacobs '75, J.D/79, P'06; Dan Abbey '73; Tom Brown '73; Colleen Aylward '75; Bill Lincoln '73; Brad Bergquist '72; Steve from its original six teams to 12 teams, involv­ Westerberg '73; and Todd Sames '76. Front, from left Steve Zimmerman '73; Chuck Wolsborn '73, P'10; ing 20 owners. We play in three four-team John Kucher '77; Chris McCartney '76; Larry Vanlaningham '73; and Larry Eckert '72, M.B.A/84. divisions: Hanks, Caseys, and Magoo’s, named of course for our favorite undergrad haunts. All of the league members are UPS Kappa Sigma 38 years of fantasy football — fraternity brothers. Football is the excuse to gather, but brotherhood is the real reason. and friendship by Steve Zimmerman '73 Over the years marriages, births, deaths, and career ups and downs have all been shared, ce­ In October of 1978 Jimmy Carter was fraternity brothers who were in Seattle for the menting friendships formed decades ago. president; Leon Spinks was undisputed heavy­ University of Washington-University of Oregon From its beginning as a one-evening event weight champion, having defeated Muham­ football game (Huskies 20-Ducks 14) to create a in Pat Anunsen’s parlor, the draft has grown mad Ali; a record album cost $8.98; and league and hold its first draft. into a multi-day event, with headquarters at the University of Puget Sound Kappa Sigma Paul Ferry ’71, Rick Aeschlimann ’72, Bill Chuck Wolsborns (’73) place in Troutdale, Football League was formed. Thirty-eight Lincoln 73, John Knighton 73, and I sat Ore. Its a four-day micro-Woodstock, as the years later, Carter, Spinks, and vinyl records around a table with football magazines, hand- clan gathers to play poker and golf, swap lies, are fading from memory, but the Kappa Sigma compiled draft sheets, and cold beverages. A catch up with one another, and hold a raucous Football League lays claim to being one of the few hours later the draft was completed and Saturday-night draft, complete with catcalls, longest continuously operating fantasy football the Kappa Sigma Football League had begun. insults, and the occasionally inspired draft leagues anywhere. It was hard to pick a bad team back then, choice. The attendees come from Washington, The origins of fantasy football can be traced when players like Roger Staubach, Dan Fouts, Oregon, Idaho, California, Arizona, and occa­ back to 1962, when it was first played by execu­ Bob Griese, Walter Payton, and Tony Dorsett sionally Hawai'i, Texas, and Indiana. Tall tales tives and season-ticket-holders of the Oakland were all in their prime. Then as now the format from our undergrad days are dusted off, embel­ Raiders. By 1978 fantasy football had accumu­ was simple: Touchdown runs and touchdown lished, and savored. lated enough attention that Sports Illustrated ran passes are worth six points, field goals three, Now, as Super Bowl 30 nears, the Kappa an article about it. Pat Anunsen 73 read that ar­ and extra points one or two. Because of the Sigma Football League is 38 years strong and ticle and gathered five of his UPS Kappa Sigma late start our first season was limited to seven still high-stepping into the end zone.

years of experience in the real singing a retrospective on his In 2006 in this Since then the organization estate business. He and wife career, "Journey from Federal magazine we report- has been going strong, and we Amy live in Bend, Ore. They Way to the Met," at the Knut- ed on the progress of carbon were intrigued to note this past fund.org, a nonprofit started November that Seattle's Pearl have two children, Mackenzie, The Federal Way zen Family Theatre. This spring in 2003 by Eric Carlson and Jam is partnering with Carbon- a freshman at Colorado State Mirror reports that he will perform the role of his wife that provides carbon University, and Baxter, a high Robert McPherson was back Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro at fund to offset the band's C02 school junior. in his hometown in October. the Metropolitan Opera in New offsetting and greenhouse gas emissions generated by live York City. reduction choices to individuals, performances during their 2015 businesses, and organizations. Latin America tour.

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Yoshikazu Nagai performed in Awards, nearly double the near­ up in California, initially chose October in the Faculty Artists est runner-up. CBS. science over culinary arts. At This just in ... Series at the San Francisco Puget Sound she majored in Conservatory of Music. He is a molecular biology. She was a professor of piano at SFCM and 20th middle- and high-school sci­ teaches during the summer at June/? 12201 ence teacher in the Kent School the Amalfi Coast Music Festival V District for eight years. A single in Italy. Cathy Speraw mom. she also worked as a Dorvil has joined the part-time ceramic artist and health care and litigation prac­ teacher. Susan decided it was Longtime Chicago tice groups at the Chambliss, time for a change. According to Bears fan and old Bahner & Stophel law firm in the Kent Reporter. Pie Lab is a friend of this magazine Ed Chattanooga, Tenn. She previ­ hit and already has many regu­ Snyder has been drafted as ously worked for six years in the lar customers. Flavors include a weekly contributing writer Miami office of Hogan Lovells cherry apple, bacon apple, pear, to windycitygridiron.com. He US LLP Cathy is a magna cum and bourbon peach. Everything was gear editor at NSMB.com, laude graduate of the University from the crust to the filling is a mountain-biker site, for four of Miami School of Law. She made in house. years, and his writing has also earned a Master of Science in appeared in BIKE magazine. Maternal and Child Health at the Harvard University School of (j , Building Design Public Health. • + Construction QUITE POSSIBLY THE BEST WOMAN Jji :"! The Washington chose Ellen Mitchell Kozack Jr - Biotechnology & Stacey Wilson Hunt has left her for the magazine's 2015 Forty ; OFF-ROAD ENDURANCE CYCLIST Biomedical Association has position as awards and special Under 40 "emerging superstars IN THE WORLD named Marc Cummings vice projects editor at The Hollywood in the architecture, engineering, president for public policy and Reporter to become West Coast and construction industry." Ellen If Lael Wilcox '08 has a spirit animal it's probably external affairs. In that role editor for New York magazine is a commercial architect and the Energizer Bunny. She started taking off on epic Marc will be responsible for Congrats. Stacey! vice president and director of bike rides after graduation and hasn't really stopped the trade organization's federal, In October the Journal of the sustainability at HKS Architects j state, and local government San Juans noted that Marty in Dallas. Texas. : since. Last year she decided to try one of the most relations, and developing part­ Pujolar was inducted into the grueling events in America, theTour Divide (TD). Ross Swanes has been named nerships with groups that sup­ Friday Harbor (Wash.) High president of Northern Fish Running north to south along the Continental Divide, port the life sciences industry School Wolverine Football Hall Products in Tacoma. After Puget TD is the world's longest off-pavement cycling route. in the state of Washington. of Fame. Marty won the Wol­ Sound Ross earned an M.B.A. Riders cover 2,745 miles from Banff, Alberta, to Ante­ After Puget Sound Marc earned verine 1991 MVP Award for at the University of Notre an M.S. at the Georgia Institute both offense and defense He lope Wells, N.M., climbing 200,000 vertical feet in the Dame and worked in strategy of Technology. He was, in 2009, played four years at Puget Sound process. One more thing: It is done solo—completely consulting in Washington, D.C. appointed by Washington Gov. and was team captain in 1995. He went to work at Northern self-supported—meaning riders must carry all their Gregoire to co-chair the Wash­ Marty lives on Bainbridge Island, Fish in 2007 and is the fifth own supplies and fend for themselves along the ington State Clean Energy Wash., and is an attorney in generation of his family to route.To prepare for this grueling event, Lael decided Leadership Council. Previously Seattle. run the company, according he served in a variety of senior the best training was doing, so she rode from her to a November 2015 item in policy and consulting positions Tacoma's News Tribune. Ross' home in Anchorage to the June 12 Grand Depart in in Washington, D.C. NatalieTanner Dent is the new dad, John Swanes, is CEO of Banff. You read that correctly: She rode more than the company. 2,100 miles to get to the start line of a 2,700-plus- marketing and communications In September James manager for Central Oregon Eco­ mile race. Along the route Lael encountered exhaus­ Brown was named nomic Development. According 15th $$$!§* tion (riders sleep very little), cold, loneliness, and executive VP and CFO of to The Oregonian. Natalie moved ! even a serious medical condition that forced her to Gordmans Stores. Gordmans. to Bend from Seattle in 2013 and June 2i , ride to a hospital in Montana. But she experienced founded in 1915 and based in spent the last two years consult­ ing for a variety of businesses something else, too: joy.That joy, combined with Omaha. Neb., operates 101 in Central Oregon and beyond. stores in 22 states. James recently reported on two events Lael's absolute determination and prowess as a joined the company after hav­ With close to 20 years of ex­ world-class endurance athlete propelled her to finish hosted by Laura Heywood at ing been executive VP and CFO perience in marketing, public Feinstein's/54 Below—Broad­ the course in 17 days, 1 hour, and 51 minutes, carv­ since 2013 at Hancock Fabrics. relations, corporate communica­ way's Supper Club in New York ing more than two full days off the women's course Prior to that he spent seven tions. writing, sales, and project City. In September she was management, as well as in social record in her inaugural attempt.Then, back in An­ years in various finance roles at MC for a pub-type quiz contest Fred's Inc., a discount retail and media, Natalie has helped many chorage, she started wondering how she'd do when called Broadway Trivia: Back To pharmacy chain. organizations meet their busi­ School Edition. In October she she wasn't hampered by bronchitis like she had been ness goals, including as director Hari Sreenivasan was among co-hosted Ghost Light: Songs the first time, so in August Lael rode theTD again, the team at PBS NewsHour of public relations for Discovery and Creepy Stories from Broad­ finishing in an unimaginable 15:10:59.That's about that took the 2015 Emmy for Bay Games in Seattle. way and Beyond to Get You in 183 miles a day, folks, in every kind of weather, most Outstanding Investigative Jour­ the Halloween Spirit. At both of it over nothing resembling a road. You can read nalism in a Regularly Scheduled events Laura was assisted by about Lael's other two-wheeled adventures at Newscast. PBS took a total of cast members from Broadway 17 trophies at the 36th annual jMsssssr shows. She is the creator of @ laelwilcox.com. — Ed Snyder '93 opened Pie Lab, a bakery in News & Documentary Emmy Kent, Wash. Susan, who grew BroadwayGirINYC. the most-

36 arches winter 2016 followed independent theater ply/White Cap Construction and materials are worthy of account on Twitter. Forbes has Supply, which provided materi­ being called 'art.'... She wants called her "the most vocal and als for Puget Sound campus to make inexpensive material ELECTED IN NOVEMBER visible supporter in the busi­ projects such as Commence­ express a lot." Katy earned an ness.” In her day job Laura is a ment Hall, Commencement M.F.A. at Otis College of Art Keith Blocker '12 was elected to the social media consultant for the­ Walk, the Wheelock addition, and Design in 2014. She has Tacoma City Council, representing Dis­ ater companies and businesses Weyerhaeuser Hall, and the had solo exhibitions in Los An­ trict 3, which includes Hilltop, Central looking to reach the Broadway new aquatics center now under geles. Chicago, and Milwaukee, Tacoma, and the Tacoma Mall areas. fan audience, and she writes construction. "In June I at­ and has been included in group Keith has been a resident of Tacoma for theater-themed publica­ tended as a volunteer all seven shows in Chicago, Los Angeles, for almost 10 years. He works with the tions like BroadwayWorld and days of the 2015 U S. Open at and London. She currently lives Playbill. Previously Laura had Chambers Bay. I was on the and works in Los Angeles and APeace Community Center to mentor disadvantaged stu­ a decade-long career in radio Evacuation Committee and in Milwaukee and teaches part dents. The City Club of Tacoma awarded him the Dennis broadcasting, both on-air and would have helped ferry players time at Mount Mary University Seinfeld Emerging Leader award for his contributions to behind the scenes, which off the course in the event of a and the Milwaukee Institute of The Conversation, which is a group of community mem­ culminated with five years as weather delay. The weather for Art and Design. bers who gather to focus on issues of social justice, director of talent and industry the week was perfect1" In August the Federal Way Mir- and to the Race and Pedagogy Initiative, a Puget Sound relations at Sirius XM Jennifer Eidum Zinchuk is an ror published an article featuring program that addresses issues of race as they relate to assistant professor of English the observations of Tyler Luke, teaching practices. a lieutenant with South King On Oct. 24, 2015, at Elon University in Elon, N.C Jennifer was a P&G major at Fire and Rescue working on Deepon Nag mar­ T'wina Franklin '06, M.A.T. '07 was ried Elizabeth Anto at the Puget Sound. She earned a fighting the huge wildfires in Eastern Washington this past elected to the University Place School Shrine Church of St. Anthony of master's in Teaching English to summer. "I hope the people Board. She has four children, three cur­ Padua in New York City. Deepon Speakers of Other Languages from the Federal Way and Des is a research analyst for the cor­ and a Ph.D. in English at the rently in University Place schools. She Moines areas truly grasp the porate advisory division of Mac­ University of Washington works as an instructor for Metropolitan Eton's new-employees news­ amount of devastation and the quarie, an Australian investment Development Council's College Bound number of lives that have been bank. According to a wedding letter introduced Jennifer by noting that she enjoys hiking, affected on the east side," Tyler program,M which supports student leaders as they pre­ announcement in The New York said in the article. "I hope they pare for college. Four years ago, T'wina co-founded La­ Times. Elizabeth is a staff psy­ camping, photography, trying see the importance and value dies First, an in-school and after-school program chiatrist at shelters in Brooklyn local food and breweries, and of sending resources from com­ and the Bronx for the Project spending time with her son, dedicated to encouraging young women and building munities in Western Washing­ for Psychiatric Outreach to the Nikita. community. She also serves on the Fund for Women and ton to Eastern Washington." Homeless. Deepon received his Girls Advisory Board. T'wina was awarded both the PTA M.B.A. from Columbia. Daniel Corral Golden Acorn Award and the WASA Community Leader­ Tim Mensonides checked in to tell ship Award in 2014. is the airport opera­ us that his new CD Diamond ■ EricAnkrim was tions coordinator and an active Pulses was released on Sept. cast in the lead­ pilot at Arlington (Wash.) Mu­ Ryan Mello '01 was re-elected to the m 12 by Orenda Records in Los ing role of Robbie in ACT—A nicipal Airport. According to the ^ Tacoma City Council. He was running Angeles. Orenda describes the Contemporary Theatre’s world Chehalis Chronicle. Tim is a cer­ 1 unopposed for at-large position 8. Ryan 32-minute album as combin­ premiere of Steven Dietz' tified member of the American ing "spacey electronic poly­ [to was first elected to the Tacoma City Bloomsday. The show ran at Association of Airport Execu­ rhythms. intricate tuning sys­ Council in 2011. As an AmeriCorps vol- the ACT Allen Theatre in Seattle tives, with more than 11 years tems, and noisy ambiance to ■BB unteer in Tacoma he implemented the from Sept. 11 to Oct. 11. of experience in the industry. open new sonic dimensions." He initially worked as a line Youth United program at United Way of Pierce County, Ned LeBlond has started You can download it at orenda technician at Tacoma Narrows producing the first-ever letter-in-community service EquityStone. a nonprofit online records.com/shop/orenda0020. marketplace that matches Airport, and at Boeing Field. program in which high school students can earn a var­ The Tacoma Weekly reviewed homeowners in the Santa Cruz, Both of Tim’s parents are pilots, sity letter for exceptional community service. Ryan has Katy Keefe Cowan's Bricked. Calif., area who are struggling so he grew up around airplanes served on the boards of Equal Rights Washington and displayed at Kittredge Gallery to pay their mortgages with in the Tacoma area. At Puget on campus from Oct. 30 to the Transportation Choices Coalition. In 2008-09 he co­ low-income renters who are Sound, he majored in business Nov. 7. The installation con­ chaired the city's Green Ribbon Task Force on Climate having difficulty locating afford­ administration. sisted of a series of cast con­ Change. Currently he is executive director of the Pierce able housing. According to a Ben Zamzow has joined Rocky crete bricks arranged on raised Conservation District. He previously was elected to the September 2015 item in Bloom­ Mountain Companies in Boise, wooden plinths, called "Brick­ berg Business. EquityStone Idaho, as vice president of real Metropolitan Park Board of Commissioners, in 2005. lines." and several wall-bound hopes to incentivize homeown­ estate development. rope works that combined ers via business discounts to Ty Stober '92 was elected to the Van- rent out space they don't use to slip-cast ceramic pieces and w •1. cast bricks, named "Variations." * couver, Wash., City Council. Ty grew up "people they would be excited 10th The show was assembled I in Vancouver. He earned an M.B.A. at The to live with." It's not the first during a weeklong residency Juried time we've seen Ned’s name University of North Carolina at Chapel at Puget Sound. Art depart­ in the national media. In 2013 jjY j Elizabeth Fly helps” Hill. Ty has served on the boards of Equal ment students assisted with he received notice for his photo 1 communities to Rights Washington and the Advisory and creating parts of the exhibition. project documenting shrinking prepare for climate change and Governing Boards of Clark County's Daybreak Youth Ser­ The Weekly writer observed glaciers, (alpineamericas.com) rising sea levels. According to that with this installation. Katy vices, among others. cisa.sc.edu, she "is the coastal Phil Westberg tells us he's "wants the viewer to question climate extension specialist for working in sales for HD Sup- definitions about what objects

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CISA ICarolinas Integrated Sci­ Greg Groggel accepted a job Olympics. It will focus on the experience of students in the be home to 150 glaciers when c/> ences and Assessments] and as senior commissioning edi­ personalities and lifestyles of wake of drastic cuts to art edu­ it was founded in 1850; but Q) the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium. tor of the yet-to-be-launched the athletes to show an edgier cation. The film premiered Aug. now only 25 glaciers remain, 02 She provides science-based Olympic Channel, which will side of the Olympics. While it 16 at the Hollywood Theatre in and these few are expected to E information to coastal commu­ be a year-round video platform is a S600 million gamble, the Portland. disappear by 2030. The film ex­ CO (D nities. resource managers, and dedicated to the Olympics. channel is projected to break plores current research on the 02 other groups in South Carolina. Located in Madrid, the channel even in 10 years. park's melting glaciers and how o ... Currently Fly serves as a is being backed by the Inter­ Ryan Honick was the ecosystem is responding to scientific consultant to a citizen- national Olympic Committee. successful in his climate change. driven sea level rise task force According to Bloomberg com, A Emily Sterling and campaign to change a Wash­ in Beaufort and Port Royal, S.C., the channel will start producing Char Hutson made ington. D C.. Metro policy that and plays a similar role for the content before the 2016 Rio their first film, called Arts Exit: prevented riders with service 5th i Charleston Resilience Network. Games and will begin on the Saving the Creative Kid. Emily animals from having access to June iLtMP She is also the co-chair for the Internet, looking to share con­ and Char filmed around the special gates so their animals Southeast and Caribbean Cli­ tent with TV stations. The chan­ demands of their day jobs as don't have to go through the iil/ffljil j| Hallie Bateman s 1BM1 y\\ cartoon feature titled mate Community of Practice." nel is designed to get more educators in the Portland, Ore., fare gate. Ryan, who was born young people interested in the public schools. They tracked the with cerebral palsy, relies on his "A Critic's Guide to New York service dog, Pico, for everyday City's Best Climbing Trees" was tasks such as opening doors. published in the Sept 4 issue of The fare gates have clipped The New York Times Magazine. This just in ... Pico in the past, and if he were The cartoons depict the author to become afraid of the Metro climbing different trees in New it would limit Ryan's mobility York City and sharing her obser­ In response to his complaint, vations. It begins with a "Dis- the Metro director changed the Climber" stating that "Climbing •i : , - is** procedure immediately. Now trees is illegal in New York. If *, Ryan is taking on PETCO to en­ anyone asks. I was never here." mB&M courage the pet-supply retailer Hallie is a visual columnist at

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AmeriCorps-sponsored volun­ ily reached out to the house­ 64 years, Ann; two children; teer science educator. holds that were on the waiting sister, Mildred Brown Boyd ’38; and brothers Harry E. Brown a granddaughter; and a great- list for housing," he says on the Jeni Oppenheimer and her '32 and Donald Brown '44 pre­ granddaughter survive Frank. Associated Ministries website mom, Deanna Watson Oppen­ ceded him in death. Survivors "The lessons I learned at Asso­ Arpad Kadarkay, professor heimer '80, P'11, P'14, a Puget include his wife of 65 years. ciated Ministries actually drove emeritus of politics and govern­ | ! Sound trustee, raised $23,699 Joan; three sons, including ment. died on Nov. 28, 2015. me to focus my senior thesis for victims of the Chelan Fire James Brown '75. and their Arpi joined the Puget Sound on issues of mental health in Complex They are part-time spouses, six grandchildren; faculty in 1979 as associate homeless youth. I quickly found residents of Chelan, Wash., and seven great-grandchildren; and professor of politics and govern­ the devastation they witnessed that the youth and young adult his brother Alvin Brown '36. ment, bringing to the campus from the wildfires in the area populations are drastically un­ teaching experience at the moved them to launch a local derserved, and they will require University of California, Santa fundraising effort for victims extra care and attention in the Barbara and Occidental College. The fires burned more than coming years. I hope to be a A specialist in political theory. 92,000 acres and destroyed part of that effort." American political thought, and 21 homes The plea for sup­ In December Ariana Lim the intellectual history of 20th- port went out to family and graduated with a master's in Dick Brown, in 1949 century Europe, he received his friends by way of a site called library and information science B.A. degree at the University of British Columbia, his M.A. at Crowdrise. People responded from Dominican University in Trustees quickly; many donors were River Forest, III. She also told UCLA with a certificate in Rus­ Puget Sound alumni. us about the achievements of Richard Brown '50, P'75 sian area studies, and his Ph.D. some of her classmates. Toria passed away on Nov. 2. 2015, from UC, Santa Barbara. Messinger graduated with a at Tacoma General Hospital, At Puget Sound Arpi taught where he had been born 88 master's in criminal justice from the full range of political years earlier to Alapharetta !B“r,or Western Oregon University theory courses in his home and Harry Brown. Dick was for River Restoration Adven­ in December. Katie McCor­ department and contributed to the fifth and last child born to tures for Tomorrow (RRAFT), a mick started her second year governance, scholarship, and the founder of the Brown & advisory committees across his nonprofit based in Gunnison, of teaching English in South Haley candy company. He at­ Frank Hruza, in 1979 career. He was a member of Colo. In August RRAFT took 13 Korea in September Jasmine tended Stadium High School the original faculty seminar that Puget Sound students on the Kaneshiro graduated with a and excelled there in sports. led to the creation of the Inter­ Gunnison River to teach them bachelor's degree in nursing Faculty He served in the Army and national Political Economy Pro­ about the river basin and to through Johns Hopkins Univer­ Franklyn Hruza M.Ed.'93, then attended Puget Sound, gram. He was awarded several speak with locals about con­ sity's accelerated program in professor emeritus of busi­ where he was named Little All- fellowships, including at Indiana cerns specific to the area. The December And Grete Slaugh ness and public administration, American in football. Dick was and Harvard universities, and UPS students were on an inter­ became a Fulbright Scholar and passed away on Oct. 4, 2015, inducted into the Puget Sound participated in a U.S. Congress disciplinary study tour through set out for Germany in Septem­ at the age of 85. Born in Bel­ Athletics Hall of Fame in 1967, Armed Services Committee nine states in the Southwest. ber to study plant genetics. leville, Kan., Frank moved with as All-America in football and visit to Southeast Asia in 1972. According to elevationoutdoors. this family to California at age Colin McIntosh is a Teach For All-Conference in both foot­ and as an advisor for the U.S. com, this year is RRAFT's sec­ 10. He graduated from Laguna America volunteer teaching ball and basketball. Dick was Committee on Asia-Pacific ond year teaching about rivers Beach High School and then math at Copper Canyon High "considered one of the best Peace and Stability in 1984. and helping to restore them. attended Orange Coast College, School inTolleson, Ariz. At football-basketball athletes ever Professor Kadarkay authored where he was the school’s first Madeline Parsell is a Teach Puget Sound he was a psychol­ to wear the Logger uniform. His three books: Human Rights in student body president. He For America volunteer teaching ogy major. basketball accomplishments American and Russian Thought then served for seven years science at Hale High School in include being a member of the (1982); Georg Lukacs: Life, Ceramist Jordan Meyers was in the U.S. Navy and Navy Tulsa, Okla. At Puget Sound she first Logger basketball team to Thought, and Politics (1991, on the 23rd Annual Greater Gig Reserve. After military service majored in biology. reach the NAIATournament in also published in a Spanish edi­ Harbor Open Studios Tour in Frank earned a Bachelor of Sci­ Kansas City." according to the tion); and The Lukacs Reader September. A Kitsap Sun article ence degree at California State UPS athletics website. In 2005 (1995). He also served as editor iffil Madison Basham introducing the artists on this Polytechnic University in 1958 he also was inducted into the and translator for Sandor Boloni V-/- - i has signed on year's tour noted Jordan grew and a Ph.D. at the University of Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Farkas' Journey in North Ameri­ with Coldwell Banker Bain up in South Dakota and now Washington in 1972. In 1973 he Hall of Fame for his athletic ac­ ca (1978). Lukacs. Hungary, and in Tacoma. She is a certified lives and works in Gig Harbor. became the director of urban complishments in high school Marxism were the focus for a realtor. Contact Madison at He works out of the studio of affairs at Puget Sound, retiring and college. Dick summited substantial set of published es­ [email protected]. Dan Barrett. Dan teaches ce­ from the School of Business Mount Rainier and was part of says. encyclopedia entries, and ramics at Puget Sound. in 1992. In retirement Frank Will Bergstrom is a housing a group of friends who created conference papers over Arpad's earned an M.Ed. at UPS and coordinator for Associated the game of picklebal! on Bain- career. On his wife Leone's was a longtime volunteer at his Ministries, a nonprofit organiza­ Ann Marie Do bridge Island. He worked as advice several years ago, he church and in the community tion that helps low-income and joined Plymouth vice president of Rogers Candy had begun writing his memoirs, as a counselor. Frank was a homeless people. Will began Church in Seattle as a justice Company in Seattle for several which were published in serial­ charter member of the Tacoma working with AM in the spring leadership intern. Her work years before moving to the ized form by the Hungarian of 2013 as an unpaid intern. He Landmarks Commission and with the Church Council of Methow Valley in North Central Review. quickly found that being there received the Tacoma City of Greater Seattle will revolve Washington state, where he Born in Hungary in 1934, for others was his calling. As around issues of family Destiny Award. He was named began Winthrop Realty. Dick fol­ Arpi became a naturalized U.S. the internship ended Will was homelessness. According to to the Orange Coast College lowed in his father's footsteps citizen in 1969 and had this offered a part-time position with plymouthchurchseattle.org, and for 33 years served as a Alumni Hall of Fame. Frank the organization. "I worked the past year returned to Hungary she hopes to teach and lead trustee of the university, along enjoyed photography, traveling, entirety of my senior year as a reflections during her time at to teach. In August he wrote with other community-service downhill skiing, fishing, garden­ ! part-time employee, and primar- Plymouth. ing, and singing. His wife of to say he had been appointed : roles throughout his life. Dick's visiting professor emeritus at

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Corvinus University. Budapest, in New Westminster. Canada. 20 years. Mildred was active and Oxford business schools, of the annual experimental c/) an institution to which he had Gardening, travel, and going in several civic and community concluding his career at age 80 garden exhibit in her honor. In 0) previously been denied admis­ to Costco were three of Arpi's organizations, including Haller teaching business courses at retirement she and Willard ex­ CD sion on political grounds. He nonacademic hobbies. He was Lake School PTA, Children's UPS. Jack attended St. Patrick plored Southeast Alaska aboard E lectured on the American Revo­ fond of Costco pies, cookies, Orthopedic Guild, and a gar­ Catholic Church in Tacoma into their boat, Arctic Loon, enjoying CO

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China. Len returned to Wash­ accomplish their goals. His where I checked out her hand in Gig Harbor and to shaping 1967 and served in various ca­ ington and attended the Col­ family remembers him for his and changed the dressing.' the community through a time pacities, including as assistant lege of Puget Sound on the Gl compassion, work ethic, and Years later, while attending a of dramatic growth. In 2011 superintendent and deputy su­ Bill and later the University of quick wit. His wife, Mary Lou medical convention in New York Gretchen moved to an apart­ perintendent, a job in which he ! Washington School of Law. He Rogers Gee '45. preceded him City, Dr Hansen was taking a ment in Harbor Place, where was responsible for the district practiced law in Pierce County in death in 2013. A son and two stroll on East 49th Street in the she lived unassisted until three budget, maintenance and op­ for more than 50 years, first as grandchildren survive Holly. Turtle Bay neighborhood, where weeks before her passing. Her erations, buildings and grounds, a deputy prosecutor and later the actress lived in a brown- parents, husband, and brother food service, and transporta­ I Frederik Hansen '49 died on in private practice Len and stone. 'I saw a woman shroud­ Thomas preceded her in death. tion. In addition to the degrees Aug. 23, 2015, due to chronic three partners developed sev­ ed in a scarf get out of a car and Three children, including Mart earned at Puget Sound. Virgil congestive heart failure. He eral large real estate projects, walk into the house. A moment Wilbert Lambert '76; four grand­ received an M.B.A. and stud­ was 88. Rik was born and including Lake Tapps in Pierce later, the door in the vestibule children; a great-grandchild; ied in the doctoral program at raised in Tacoma. He graduated County and Lake Cushman in opened, and she asked. Is that the University of Washington. from Stadium High School in brother George Swayze '59; Mason County. Leonard was Dr. Hansen? She invited me in sister Sue Swayze Rector '56 After working in education, three years and then enlisted in elected State Representative to show me how well her hand and her husband, Clark Rector in retirement Virgil and wife the Navy in 1943. He received at age 29 and represented the had healed.'" Rik was involved '59, survive Gretchen. Leona "Sue" Puderbaugh Baker his training at Naval Station 25th Legislative District for 22 in establishing The Curtis Na­ '68 made the world their new Great Lakes in Illinois. At 18 Blaine Wiseman '49 died on years. He served as speaker of tional Hand Center at Union school, taking trips to Mexico years old, Rik was stationed Oct. 31, 2015, at the age of the house from 1973 to 1976, Memorial Hospital in 1975. He and 13 trips to Europe.They in Adak, Alaska, in charge of a 90. At 17 he joined the U.S. during which time he helped had emergency bypass surgery toured 43 U.S. states. Virgil is team that installed radar on PBY Navy and served in World War reform and modernize the in 1982 but returned to his prac­ remembered for his influence planes used for bomber patrols, II and in the Korean War. Blaine state legislature. A resolution tice. He volunteered his ser­ on many, especially his family, convoy escorts, and submarine then completed his degree in honoring Len was introduced vices with the Navajo and Hopi whose continued education warfare. After the war he at­ geology at CPS, where he met in 1988. For the past 10 years, tribes through the U.S. Indian he supported and contributed tended Puget Sound under the and married Marge Agule "50. he and wife Dawne enjoyed Health Service in the South­ to. His wife of 69 years, two Gl Bill. He went on to Harvard Blaine had a long career in geol­ golf in Palm Desert, Calif., dur­ west. Rik also volunteered his children, and five grandchildren Medical School, earning his ogy and discovered many non- ing the winter months. Len's time with The Children's League survive him. medical degree in 1953. Rik ferrous mineral deposits that wife, five children from his first in western Maryland, repairing completed a surgical internship were later developed into profit­ Earl Blmel '50 passed away on marriage, and seven grandchil­ cleft palates and other con­ and residency at then-Hospital able mines. He was a published Oct. 31. 2015, just 12 days past dren survive him. genital deformities. He retired of Cleveland, now part of Case author and enjoyed travel, golf, his 89th birthday. He had been in 1995. Rik enjoyed working Gertrude Winter '48 passed Western Reserve University. As and spending time with his battling cancer. Earl was born in his garden, playing golf, and away on Oct. 25, 2015, at the a medical student, he worked family. Blaine was so pleased and raised in Tacoma, graduat­ traveling. He was a dog lover age of 97. She was born and several jobs to supplement his with his Puget Sound education ing from Stadium High School. and volunteered at the SPCA. raised in Petersburg, Ohio, and income, including in the blood that he established the Blaine He was a lifetime Tacoma In 1982 the university awarded graduated from Springfield bank at Massachusetts General L. Wiseman Endowed Scholar­ resident, aside from time spent him its Service to Community Township High School. Gertie Hospital, where he met his ship to help geology students in the Army Air Corps during Alumni Award. Rik's wife of 61 studied at Miami University future wife, Barbara "Bobbie" at the college. Survivors include World War II, serving as a clerk years, four children, and nine in Oxford, Ohio, to become Pettit, a dietetic intern. The two three children and three grand­ typist. Earl earned his bache­ grandchildren survive him. a teacher. She married her were married in 1954. By 1958 children. lor's in education and played longtime sweetheart, Charles the couple had moved to Balti­ Gretchen Swayze Wilbert '49, Virgil Baker B.A/50. B.S.'50, college baseball, serving as "Bill" Winter M.Ed.'54. in more, where Rik began training '63. P'76 died on Nov. 15. 2015, M. Ed/60 passed away on Sept. team captain for two seasons. 1944, when Bill was on leave in plastic surgery at Johns Hop­ at age 87. She was born in Ta­ 19. 2015. He was 94. Virgil He went on to play five years in during World War II. His last kins Hospital. Two years later he coma to Thomas Swayze Sr. '23 began his lifetime of learning the Chicago Cubs organization assignment was at then-Fort established a private practice and Frances Goehring Swayze at the early age of 4. when he for various minor-league affili­ Lewis m Tacoma. Gertie fol­ in reconstructive surgery. One '22. Her mother was one of entered first grade. In 1943 he ates. Earl played with a young lowed him there in 1946. She of his many prominent patients the first women to serve in the enrolled in day classes at Pa­ Hank Aaron, who was making his professional debut with taught home economics at was actress Katharine Hepburn, House of Representatives in cific Lutheran University while Gray Junior High prior to a whom he treated during her Washington state. Gretchen's also working the graveyard shift the Cubs’ minor league team 20-year career at Clover Park 1971 run of Coco at the old brother Thomas Swayze Jr. at Todd Shipyard. By winter in Sioux Falls. S.D. He also played against Roger Maris in High School, teaching business Morris Mechanic Theatre in Bal­ ‘52 also served in the House semester he transferred to the courses, retiring in 1977. She timore. The Baltimore Sun re­ of Representatives. In 1954 College of Puget Sound, where 1954. Earl earned his bachelor's degree and teaching certificate was active in the Zion Lutheran ported: "Shortly before coming Gretchen and husband Bill Wil­ he took courses in organic and United Lutheran churches to Baltimore (Ms. Hepburn) was bert '50 moved to Gig Harbor, chemistry, physics, and busi­ and joined the University Place in Tacoma, and enjoyed square attacked in her Hartford. Conn., where they raised their three ness. To fund his education, Vir­ School District as a teacher, coach, counselor, and admini­ dancing and needlepoint. Bill home by a woman she had re­ children on Wollochet Bay. After gil worked 38 hours a week at strator. In retirement and after predeceased her in 1999. Three cently discharged. Ms. Hepburn their children were in school, a local shingle mill. He served a long break from baseball. Earl children, five grandchildren, wrestled the woman to the Gretchen earned a teaching cer­ in the U.S. Army from 1945 to was encouraged by fellow alum and seven great-grandchildren floor, and in the ensuing melee, tificate and taught kindergarten 1946, honorably discharged at Joe Stortini '55 to play senior survive Gertie. the woman bit the actress on at Artondale Elementary School. the rank of staff sergeant. In She helped establish the kinder­ slowpitch softball. Ten years Hollister Gee '49 died on Nov. her hand. Her manager wanted the fall of 1952, Virgil joined the later Earl helped the Emerald 10. 2015. He was 91. Holly her to cancel the tour but she garten program in the Peninsula staff of Kapowsin Grade School City team win the 70-and-over was a leader in the Lakewood, refused, and on the advice of School District. Gretchen retired in the Bethel School District. from teaching in 1988. In 1989 national championship, and in Wash., community, where he her physician contacted Dr. He taught there for three years 2004, with Earl as player/mana­ was a longtime educator and Hansen. "She said she had 40 she took on the role of mayor of and then assumed the role of coach. He was instrumental people depending on her, and Gig Harbor and served her com­ building principal, beginning ger. the team won the West­ in organizing youth sports she couldn't cancel.' Rik told the munity for 16 years, the longest a 27-year career as a school ern, national, and world titles programs in the area and had Sun in 2003. 'So each day she'd tenure of any mayor to date. administrator. He transferred in the 75-and-over category. Throughout his baseball and a passion for helping athletes call me to tell me what time to Colleagues applaud Gretchen's to the district's central office in come to her room at the Hilton, dedication to the quality of life softball careers. Earl earned

winter 2016 arches 41 ■ in memoriam i L numerous all-star and MVP tending ministerial training in more than 50 years. Her hus­ ber of the Puget Sound Stereo then again in Denver, where to awards, most recently the Cy Unity Village. Mo. She was band preceded her in death in Camera Club since 1984. she worked at Saint Joseph 0 Greenlaw Award in 2015. He working at the prayer center 2013. Four sons, including Dale Anita's husband of 61 years- Hospital. Although she officially was inducted into theTacoma- there. The two were engaged 78 and Daryl ’88; 15 grandchil­ five children; 14 grandchildren, retired in 1994, she kept work­ E Pierce County Old-Timers Base­ in 1959. and Les was ordained dren; and 12 great-grandchil­ including Lindsey Taylor '06, ing as an on-call therapist until to ball-Softball Association Hall of as a Unity minister in 1961. dren survive Barbara. she was in her 70s. Her passion to M.A.T08; and two great-grand­ He served churches in Yakima. Fame in 2004 for slowpitch and Dixie Wolfe Jordan '54 passed children survive her. was working with patients and in 2009 for baseball. At 80 he Wash., and Portland. Ore., getting to know them. When o away on Sept. 9. 2015. She was Norman Sandberg '54 died was still going strong and look­ before taking a post at the First hospital management overly 83. Dixie was born and raised in on Aug. 17 2015. due to renal % ing forward to another season. Unity Church of St. Petersburg. emphasized production, she Oklahoma City. Okla.. and grad­ failure. He was 82. Norman was Fla. There, he served as senior decided it was time to retire. Survivors include his wife of uated from Northwest Clas­ born m Aberdeen. Wash., and 60 years. Corinne Swanson minister for 18 years, retiring In her mind the emphasis on sen High School in 1950. She raised in Montesano. Wash. Birnel 70; two children; two in 1993. He worked in the min­ record-keeping meant time with attended Puget Sound before While home in Montesano for granddaughters; and a great- istry for 50 years, including in patients was sacrificed. In re­ transferring to Rollins College the summer he met his future granddaughter. several interim positions and as tirement we had time to travel in Winter Park, Fla., completing wife. Patricia Quiett. The two a volunteer in the Unity World­ with our sheltie. We toured ! Lawrence Blanchfield '50 died her degree in drama with a mi­ were married in 1956. after wide Ministries. Later in life Les most of the monuments in the on Sept. 16, 2015. at the age of nor in English at The University Norman served four years in earned a master's in transper­ Four Corners area. We were 97. Larry was born in Napavine. of Oklahoma. It was there that the U.S. Air Force. They made sonal psychology. He enjoyed particularly impressed by what Wash. After earning his under­ Dixie met her husband, A. Bob their home in Cedar Hills and musicals, jazz, tennis, boating, the ancient Indian tribes were graduate degree, he continued Jordan, who was attending UO Aloha. Ore. Norman retired ! fishing, camping, and traveling. able to construct. We enjoyed his education at Oregon State College of Law. Dixie was an in 1992 after 30 years as a Les also enjoyed fine art and going to the West Coast to visit i University, where he earned a accomplished golfer and had chemist for Glidden paint. He was a docent at the Salvador family and friends and to get ! master's degree in business the opportunity to turn pro. She and Pat downsized to a condo­ Dali Museum in St. Petersburg our ocean "fix." We particularly education. Larry worked for the chose not to. Dixie was an ac­ minium and made many trips and at the Appleton Museum of enjoyed Cannon Beach, Ore . Tacoma School District for 31 tive member of the Village Bap­ throughout Europe and the U.S. Art in Ocala, Fla. Les' wife of 55 where our sheltie could run free years. He was a member of the tist Church and taught Sunday Norman was a member of the years, two children, and three on the sandy beach and herd Knights of Columbus, attaining school for many years. She also Portland Bonsai Society and the grandchildren survive him. the seagulls, andYachats, Ore., the rank of grand knight. Larry supported her husband’s love of Willamette Sailing Club, and he where the waves cascaded also was a longtime member Edward O'Connor '53 died on Sooner football, riding along on was a member of Cedar Hills against the rocks. We were able of Saint Ann Catholic Church in Oct. 22. 2015. He was 84. Ed his bus. dubbed "Dixie Marie," United Church of Christ for 59 to return to the beautiful UPS Tacoma. His wife of 46 years. was born in Shelton, Wash . which they drove to wherever years. He also enjoyed family campus and marvel at all the Lottie, preceded him in death. and graduated from Olympia The University of Oklahoma beach trips, photography, bird new construction. Gertie loved Survivors include his two High School. He went on to was playing Dixie and Bob trav­ watching, and wine making being a homemaker She made daughters and four grandsons. complete his undergraduate eled throughout the country with friends. His wife, three our home warm and inviting degree at the University of and the world. Dixie worked as children, seven grandchildren, Marion Long Robbins '50 died with all her creativity. While in Washington and was a mem­ a home health care nurse for and three great-grandchildren on Oct. 4. 2015. She was 88. Alexandria. Va., she joined a ber of Sigma Nu fraternity. many years and was passionate survive him. Marion was born in Seattle, flower-arranging group which Before attending law school at about animals and their welfare. although soon after her family These remembrances provided was responsible for decorat­ the UW. Ed married his high Her husband predeceased her. moved to Tacoma, where they by Gertie's husband, Rod Smith ing Robert E Lee's boyhood school sweetheart. The two Four children, eight grandchil­ owned and operated Atlas '52: "Gertrude Marsh Smith home. She won many blue had three children. Ed later was dren, and two great-grandchil­ Foundry from 1929 to 1975. '54 died peacefully at home ribbons for her creative flower married to Denise Spalding for dren survive Dixie. Her family spent summers on on Oct. 23, 2015, while under arranging. Gertie was an avid 20 years. He was an attorney Vashon Island near Burton. Anita Roberts Lagerberg hospice care. She was 83. gardener and our deck was in Bellingham, Wash., before Marion had three sons with '54, GP'06 passed away in Gertie is buried at Fort Logan awash in flowers every spring. retiring to Seattle to be near her first husband. Bill Braiser. September 2015. She was 83. National Cemetery in Denver. She accomplished much in our family. Alcoholics Anonymous Their family continued the Anita was raised in Tacoma, She was born in Houston, small garden. In addition to our was a central part of Ed's life for tradition of spending summers graduating from Stadium High Texas, but grew up in Tacoma. 8-by-10-foot garden, she had a 30 years. He served as an AA on Vashon. In 1967 Marion School. She attended Puget Gertie attended Stadium High patio garden on our deck. We mentor for many years. Ed is married Ron Robbins, and they Sound before transferring to the School and pursued her bache­ had tomatoes, beans, carrots, remembered for his storytelling eventually moved to Vashon University of Washington. There lor's degree in occupational and peppers all summer. Gertie and infectious laugh. Survivors full time. She was an avid she met Eugene Lagerberg. therapy. In those days at UPS had a wonderful smile, a love of include his three children, rower and helped establish her microbiology lab partner the physical medicine depart­ nature, and was a friend to all. seven grandchildren, and one and develop the Vashon Island and her future husband. Anita ment was in the "barracks." We walked our neighborhood stepdaughter. Rowing Club. Marion and Ron completed her degree in educa­ Later we saw the completion with our dog, and she had a enjoyed traveling, skiing in Sun Barbara Ahlberg Ehrenheim tion. She spent 25 years vol­ of and were privileged to tour kind word for everyone. She Valley, and spending time with '54. P'78, P'88 died on July unteering in the Seattle Public the new physical sciences simply enjoyed life. In Denver friends. They also were animal 22, 2015, at age 82. She dedi­ Schools and served 20 years on building. Gertie was so happy we enjoyed the Museum of lovers and welcomed several cated her life to others through King County’s Juvenile Diver­ for the students to have such a Nature and Science, the Denver dogs and two parrots into their teaching, leading travel tours, sion Community Accountability state-of-the-art facility. She was Art Museum, and the botanic home. Two sons and her hus­ and creating lovely flower ar­ Board. Anita was a founding affiliated with the Chi Omega gardens. We also enjoyed the band. Ron, predeceased Mar­ rangements. Barbara and her member of Private Initiatives in sorority. We were married on Arvada theater as well as the ion. A son, two grandchildren, husband of 58 years. Bob Ehr­ Public Education, and served on Jan. 15. 1955. and had 60-plus downtown theaters" Gertie's and four stepchildren survive enheim '56, loved to travel and the City of Seattle’s Joint Advi­ years of wonderful, blissful husband, two children, five Marion. used it as a tool to educate oth­ sory Commission on Education. marriage. We did everything grandchildren, and two great­ ers and to see the wonders of She also served as the coor­ The Rev. Leslie Saunders '52 together. She was my lover, my grandchildren survive her. the world. She was a member dinator for Seattle Audubon's friend, and loving companion. was 85 when he passed away Delores Crandall Stewart of St. Mark's Lutheran Church Finding Urban Nature program Gertie pursued her career as on Aug. 13,2015. He met his '56 died on Nov. 9, 2015. She by the Narrows in Tacoma for for 16 years. Anita was a mem- an O.T. in Denver, Chicago, and future wife. Natalie, while at- was 81. Delores was born in

42 arches winter 2016 Lame Deer. Mont., and was The Rev. Dr. Sidney "Bud" Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Betty Lou Miller Coffman '60 the Puyallup and Federal Way, a member of the Northern Sowers Jr. '57 died on Aug. Jim also helped with drilling a passed away on Nov. 1, 2015, Wash., school districts for 25 Cheyenne Tribe. She graduated 26, 2015, just shy of his 80th utility tunnel under the streets at age 91. Born in Spokane. years. Sandy's favorite things from Tacoma's Stadium High birthday. He was born and of Juneau and with building the Wash., she graduated with were her family, cats, cookies, School in 1952 and attended raised in Tacoma and graduated first oil dock in Valdez, among honors from John Rogers High candy, and anything having to the University of Washington from Stadium High School, many other projects requiring School in Spokane before enlist­ do with Maui. At a later date, on a music scholarship before where he was a wrestler, geological expertise. He was ing in the Navy WAVES at age part of Sandy's ashes will be completing her degree at CPS. weight lifter, and a shot putter a member of the American 18. While serving as a yeoman laid to rest with her husband of Delores was active in choir at on the track team After Puget Institute of Professional Geolo­ first class at the Naval Supply 47 years, Jerrold Giste '65. who a young age and continued her Sound Bud went on to earn gists; the Society of Mining. Depot in Oakland, Calif., she preceded her in death in 2011. interest in singing throughout a bachelor of divinity degree Metallurgy & Exploration; and met and married Howard Coff­ The remainder of her ashes high school and college. At at San Francisco Theological the Alaska Miners Association, man, a chief pharmacist's mate. with be scattered near Hana. Puget Sound she was a mem­ Seminary. He earned his doc­ serving as president for two Their marriage lasted five years. Maui. Two daughters. Kristi and ber of the Adelphians and later tor of theology degree at the years. Jim was the editor of the Betty Lou came to Tacoma to Erika; and a brother survive in life sang with the Airstream University of Basel. Switzer­ AMA Journal for three years. apprentice as a mortician at Sandy. chorus, Joyful Noise, the Pen­ land. He was ordained in the He later worked for the Envi­ Buckley-King Mortuary. She Larry Sorensen '63 passed insula Community Chorus in Presbyterian Church USA in ronmental Protection Agency completed her schooling and away on April 20, 2015. He was Gig Harbor, and the Fox Island 1963 in Concrete, Wash. Bud in the Source Water Protection state board exams and worked 78. Larry was born and raised United Church of Christ choir. served churches in Concrete, program and was the editor of for Buckley-King until a morti­ in Tacoma and graduated from She was a member of the Coulee City, and West Richland, the program newsletter. Jim's cians' strike in 1954. Choosing Lincoln High School in 1954. He Sigma Alpha lota International Wash. He taught at The Univer­ second wife, Mary Jane, prede­ not to picket she instead found joined the Navy and served Music Fraternity and Beta sity of Tulsa, Knoxville College, ceased him in 2010. His daugh­ work with Weyerhaeuser as an from 1954 to 1957 ending his Sigma Phi International. Delo­ and Macalester College. Bud ters and a sister survive him. administrative assistant and service as a signalman first res met her future husband. was a biblical scholar of both security coordinator, staying for Norma Gjertsen Stone '59 class. Larry attended Puget Richard "Dan" Stewart '55, at Old and New testaments and 31 years, until 1985. Throughout died on Sept. 7. 2015, at home Sound and majored in history, CPS and the two worked to­ loved to study the Bible in its her working life Betty Lou con­ m Tacoma, where she had with a minor in political sci­ gether at Sears during school. original languages. He authored tinued to serve as chief yeoman lived for 59 years. She was 91. ence. He later returned to earn Delores then taught school for several publications and served for the Navy Reserve Officers Norma was born in St. Paul, his teaching credentials and 27 years in Tacoma, Medford as moderator of the synod Training School in Tacoma. She Minn., and moved to Tacoma taught in the Easton, Fife, and and Klamath Falls, Ore., and of Washington, Oregon, and retired as a reservist after 33 with her family while in elemen­ Tacoma school districts. Larry Issaquah, Wash. In retirement Alaska. He also held several years of service. Betty Lou also tary school She was a Stadium worked in Puyallup with the de- she and Dan moved from Bel­ positions in the Central Wash­ served as the board president High School graduate. Norma velopmentally disabled before levue, Wash,, to a home on ington Presbytery. Bud and wife and manager of her condomini­ earned a bachelor's degree in retiring. He then caught up on Fox Island, Wash., where they Jacaline married in 1979. They um association starting in 1979. childhood development from all the reading he wanted to hosted many gatherings for moved to Salem, Ore., in 1995. Survivors include a nephew Washington State University do. Larry was the last survivor family and friends. They also Bud enjoyed watching Husky and her best friend, Barbara and a bachelor's in education in his immediate family. Our spent 15 summers traveling football, walking in the moun­ Leitzmger. from CPS. She taught kinder­ special thanks to Ronald Cygan the U.S. and Canada with their tains of the Pacific Northwest, garten through third grade in Albert DiLoreto '62 passed '66 for providing information for Airstream friends. Her husband and making trips to Cannon Tacoma-area schools, including away on Oct. 24, 2015. He was Larry's tribute. of 56 years preceded her in Beach, Ore. His wife, sister, and at Annie Wright. Whitman, and 78. Albert was born and raised Scott Wesley '64 died on Oct. death in 2013. Two children sur­ several nieces and nephews DeLong schools. Norma was in Tacoma. He graduated from 23. 2015, from melanoma. He vive Delores. survive Bud. a longtime volunteer with the Stadium High School in 1955. was 75. Scott grew up in Ea- Robert Roe '57 passed away James Hamilton '59 passed Red Cross and Children's Home Albert then earned his account­ tonville. Wash. During college on Oct. 2, 2015, at age 80. away on April 6, 2015, a few On the Hill. She was an original ing degree at Puget Sound, he joined the U.S. Air Force Born in Kansas City, Mo., he weeks prior to his 83rd birth­ committee member and former where he met Sandra Waid '60. Reserve and after graduation was raised on Washington's day. Jim was born in Nome, chair of the Holiday Cotillion of They lived in Tacoma and were was activated to Lackland Air Alaska, and graduated from Tacoma. Norma enjoyed work­ married for 38 years before Olympic Peninsula. Robert Force Base in San Antonio. graduated as valedictorian Kodiak High School in 1950. ing in her yard and was active in Sandy's passing. Albert worked Texas. Also during college Scott of Chimacum High School in He attended the University of a garden club. She also enjoyed as an accountant for various met his future wife. Shirley 1953. He played sports, includ­ Washington for two years, then a book club, and she was a Tacoma-area companies, retir­ Bradshaw '63. The two were ing basketball and baseball in transferred to Puget Sound, member of the Tacoma Lawn ing from Pierce County Public married in June 1964. After the school and throughout his life. where he earned his degree in Tennis Club and the University Works in 1999. He enjoyed service Scott began a 21-year geology. Jim went on to receive Place Presbyterian Church, meeting friends for morning Robert worked at an auto-body teaching career at McCarver shop, on a tugboat, and in a a master's in geology at the where she played the piano coffee and was a member of Elementary School in Tacoma. University of Idaho in 1961. He for the junior choir. Norma was the Gallopin' Gertie Model A paper mill. He was affiliated He and Shirley lived in Gig Har­ served as an electrician in the an active member of the Chi Ford Club of Tacoma, the with the Kappa Sigma fraterni­ bor, Wash., for 34 years before ty. After earning his bachelor's Army for two years in France Omega sorority. She and her Lions Club, and the Christopher moving to Hailey, Idaho, in degree in math, he began his and Germany. He married Bev­ husband took long bicycle trips, Columbus Society. Albert is re­ retirement in 2000. Scott was a erly Noland, and the couple had logging thousands of miles over membered for his giving spirit, 43-year career at The Boeing life member of the National Ski three daughters. Jim moved to the years. They enjoyed trips to sense of humor, and ability to Company, first working in engi­ Patrol. He served as a volunteer Anchorage, Alaska, to work for Palm Springs each spring and to fix anything. He married Gwen neering and programming and ski patroller at White Pass; the Alaska Department of Trans­ the ocean each summer. Norma Leslie in 2000. Gwen, and later in senior management, Crystal Mountain; Alpental, portation & Public Facilities. He is remembered for her com­ Albert’s four children and five retiring in 2000. Robert was in­ where he was a founding mem­ later started his own company, passion, kindness, and sense grandsons survive him. volved in every event his grand­ ber; and Rotarun, where he which for seven years provided of humor. Her husband of 55 daughters participated in, from Sandra Adler Giste '62 passed served as director, totaling 53 plays and musicals to coaching technical and service personnel, years, three daughters, eight away on Oct. 24. 2015, at age years of service. Scott was also and watching sporting events. laboratory testing services, and grandchildren, and five great­ 75. She was born in Tacoma the Pacific Northwest region's Three children and six grand­ contract drilling for the 800-mile grandchildren survive her. and was a beloved teacher in standards advisor and found- daughters survive Robert.

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A while ago it occurred to us that we were seeing a whole lot of Loggers work­ GeorgeTomlin M.S/82; Shannen Riede '13, M.A.T/15; Nichole Lindquist- ing in offices around here. We wondered what portion of the staff are Puget Kleissler '15. Grace Reid '12; Kawika Huston '10; Brenda Miller '15; and Sound alumni. A lot, it turns out: 118, or about 17 percent of all employees. We Kathryn Papoulias '14 wanted a visual for such a cool statistic, so in October we put out an open call Front row, from left; Amy Replogle '05; Jarek Sarnacki '11; Arielle for UPS-grad staff and faculty to show up on the Jones Hall steps for a photo. Lafleur Hill-Moses '05; Joseph Colon '10, Josephine Lomax '05, M.A.T/11, (In IDmg the folks in this photo we note that the Office of Donor Relations is Kathleen Campbell '81, P'15, Jennifer Kullby '14; and Kariann Lee '13 staffed entirely by Puget Sound alumni!) Stuck in traffic and missing the photo by mere seconds. Mary Belt Clements '09 Backish row, from left: Liz Collins '81. P'02; Nicole Hykes Mulhausen Other faculty and staff alumni unable to make the photo, in no particu­ '89, Todd Badham '85. P'11; Rob Clements '05, M.A.T/07; John Hickey lar order. Andrew Marshall '12; Alex Matsunami '14; Amira Siegel '01. M.B.A/83; Michal Morrison-Kerr '96, P'13; Heather Dappen '15; Bill Warner Beverly Hays Conner '78; Brian Ernst '13, Carol Curtin '90, P'00, Connie '12; Lori Blake '99. P'05; Carol Odland '89. '96, P'10; Peter Stanley '09; Jeff Tedlund Baird '74, Craig Driver '11, Cindy Riche '84; Caroline Sabochik Strong '76, P'11, P13; Wendy Petersen Dove '85, M.A.T/91; Cynthia Rawl­ '06, M.A.T/07; Dana Bailey '15; Drew Anderson '15, Deborah Hill M.Ed.'OO. ings Gibson '89; Alison Radcliffe Paradise '82, Carol Arancivia Moyer '92, P'15; Rev. Dave Wright '96, Lisa Whatley Nunn '85, P'17; Betty Popenuck P'07, P'09, and Cathy Tollefson '83. P'17. '14 (whose idea spawned this photo!); Faith Matthews '14; George Mills Fourth row, from left: Carolyn Johnson '99; Skylar Bihl '08. Kate Cohn '68, M.S/72; Gwynne Kuhner Brown '95, Holli Ann YamaguchiTollan '84. '00, P' 19; Melissa Clarke '83, Jessica Johnson '05, D.RT/07; Katie Holmes Janessa Beringer '13; Justin Canny '90; Jeff Grinstead '97, Jeff Halstead '01, Kurt Graupensperger '87, Julie Coleman '12; Joel Arakaki '06; Janet '00, M.A.T/03; Jess Smith '05; Jessica Johnson '05, D.RT/07, Jeff Root '84, Muller Hallman '84, Jada Pelger '96, Cassandra Palmore '94; Tami Hulbert P'09; JoyceTamashiro '78, Kyle Cramer '08, Kelli Delaney M.Ed/07. Kam- '84. P'08; and Terry Beck M.Ed/90. eron Kanno '13, Kristen Friehauf Spiese '92. P'19, Karin Townson D.RT/09; Third row, from left: Maggie Smith Mittuch '82, Elizabeth Hollingsworth Larissa Ogawa '14; Martin Jackson '84, Molly Pugh M.A.T/03; Mike Rot- Wormsbecker '05, Audra de Laveaga Delisle '11; Alison Riveness Baur '07; tersman '99. Matt Pickard M.Ed.'94, P'06. NevaTopolski '14, P'07, P'12, Yvonne Swinth '85, Ann Ekes Wilson '89. P'18; Emily Precht '10; Betsy P'14; Paul Monaghan '93. P'19; Richard Anderson-Connolly '90, P'13, P'14; Gast M.Ed/78, P'06; Willow Rezentes Bemtsen '83; Ginene Kennedy Alex­ Robin Aijian '04; Ruth Schauble '05; Rebecca Barrett-Fitzsimmons '11; ander '77, Amber Brock Case '05, Anne Larrabee Smith '06; Amy Corcoran Rachael Gary '12, M.A.T/13; Robin Macartney '05, Ricky Nieto '07; Michel VanZandt '06. M.Ed/11; Rebecca Harrison '01; and Jason Rotchstein '99. Rocchi '71, M.A/72; Sara Freeman '95; Stacia Stockwell Rink '85; Reggie Second row. from left: Jordan Apele Ross '12; Kristen Anderson Mur­ Tison '99; and Torri Henson Lutton '89. Our apologies if we missed anyone. phy '88; Dawn Yoshimura-Smith '83; Kirsten Wilbur 85, M.S.O.T. 08, P 17; This was the list of alumni employees at the time Arches went to press.

46 arches winter 2016 ▲ Here's Karen Robbins M.Ed/71 with Puget Sound Professor of Art and Art History Michael Johnson, who juried the Peninsula Art League's fall art show. Karen's "Seagull Convention in Sunny Bay" won honorable mention and was on display at Kimball Espresso Cafe Gallery in Gig Harbor, Wash., through Nov. 30. 2015. In other exciting news, Karen's book Shoe Print Art: Step Into Drawing won runner-up at the 2015 Southern California Book Fes­ tival. The awards ceremony was held in Los Angeles on Nov. 15. Karen, longtime educator, author, and art­ ist, co-curated Flags Across America, a photographic exhibit displayed at the Harbor History Museum A The Zeta Alpha Alumni Chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity and guests got together at CenturyLink Field through Nov. 19. It was a tribute to our country's in Seattle on Oct. 25, 2015, for a lunch meeting, followed by the Seattle Sounders soccer game against symbol of freedom and to the veterans who help Salt Lake. Standing, from left Steve White '68 John McKain '67, Rick Anderson '85; Dave Beers, Puget keep it that way. We note that Karen also was pro­ Sound's vice president for University Relations; T.J. Brennan '86, Sigma Nu Headquarters representative filed in The News Tribune on Oct. 13 for her creative Spencer Montgomery; Bob Beale '58. Bill Baarsma '64. P'93, Bruce Reid '78, P'12; Mike Dollard '78; endeavors over the years, including her role as Miss Bill Day '78; Dick Peterson '67 Steve Brown '82; and Steve Flexer '76. Kneeling, from left Bill Nelson Karen on the children's television show Romper '69. Tom Robison '80; Vince Vonada '83, Paul Stone '83, Steve Green '65, P'94; Tom Jobe '62; and Ray Room, at age 24. Karen now lives in Gig Harbor, Jones '64 where she enjoys writing and creating.

◄ Bob McIntosh '68 attended Puget ◄ Lynn Swedberg '75 received Sound while on leave from the Cen­ the Roster of Fellows Award from the tral Intelligence Agency, and Kathryn American Occupational Therapy Asso­ "Kay" McIntosh '72 transferred to ciation in September 2015, recognizing UPS from the University of Washington her success as an inventor and entre­ after they married. Following Bob's preneur. Typically an academic award, graduation they traveled overseas for the Roster of Fellows is a recognition many years. Kay continued to work on few clinicians receive. Lynn's nomina­ her degree long distance while also tion citation adds: "Wherever she teaching in a variety of U.S. Embassy sees a need for occupational therapy and international schools. She did intervention, she is quick to respond finally receive her bachelor's degree with creative solutions. Lynn has a from UPS and went on to obtain her strong commitment to social justice master's degree and principal’s cre­ and her personal spirituality infuses all dentials at PLU in 1985. Later, after of her efforts. Clearly, through shar­ their four kids were grown, at age 58, ing her knowledge, special skills, and during a trip to London she visited the expertise, Lynn has made a significant Institute of Education at the University contribution to the continuing educa­ of London and was accepted into its extremely rigorous International Education tion and professional development of occupational therapy practitioners. Her Ed.D. program. Eight years and approximately 34 trips to London from Seattle professional and volunteer activities have enhanced the lives of the individuals, later she completed her dissertation, passed her orals, and was awarded her di­ families, organizations and communities she has served." Lynn was featured in ploma. During this period the IOE merged with University College London and the autumn 2014 edition of Arches, as the creator of comfortable therapeutic today is regarded as the top education graduate school in the world. Bob adds; splints. Her Progressive Palm Protector series became its manufacturer's No.1- "Moral of the story: You are never too old to achieve great things. We love Lon­ selling new product the year it launched. The company worked with Lynn to don. have many friends at the university, and miss hopping on a British Airways prepare some of her other designs, resulting in 11 products and seven patents. 747 on our way to visit great pubs and good friends." Congratulations. Kay! winter 2016 arches 47 scrapbook

A These former cross country runners from the 70s met up on campus in early December. From left: Leon Bombardier '76; former coach and Puget Sound Hall of Famer Sam Ring M.Ed/81; John Boggs 77; Dave Richard 76, and Gary Grossmann '76, M.B.A/78, P'09. Since Diversions Cafe was packed A Randall Fowler 78, P'08, celebrated his 60th birthday this year by retir­ that day, they found a table in the dining hall and spent three hours catching up ing from Pocatello, Idaho's Rocky Mountain Emergency Physicians, which he and reliving old times. The idea for the gathering came up this past fall when helped found almost 25 years ago. He commemorated the milestone by climb­ John worked as the starter at a high school track meet in Olympia, Wash., and ing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in September. He is excited for life's next ran into Gary. They started talking about other alums from their time at UPS and adventures, which he will share with his wife of 34 years, Keri Lu. He writes: decided to organize a get-together. John coordinated with others via Facebook "Looking back at my time at UPS. I'm thankful for a terrific pre-med education, and found a date that worked for everyone. They plan to meet again and hope and an opportunity to get to know and work with some awesome people over to get others from their years involved. While the fellas were talking, Tyler Shi­ the years on campus. Life is definitely a safari, which is a Swahili word for ad­ pley '18. current Puget Sound runner who was named the West Region Men’s venture. I feel blessed by God's love and mercy." Athlete of the Year for cross country and who won the NCAA Regional and who competed in the NCAA Championships in November, stopped to chat for a couple of minutes. The guys said it was interesting to share the "now" and "then" of their Logger athletics experiences.

A Former roommates and A/L floor-mates got together at Katie Downs Pizza on a lovely, sunny September day in Tacoma. Some hadn't been back to campus or seen each other in more than 30 years! From left: Brenda Horie Cole '82 (who lost her three-year battle with adenoid cystic carcinoma on Dec. 13); Jennifer Higa-King '82, Dawn Yoshimura-Smith '83, CarynTollefson Wise '82; Cathy Tollefson '83, P'17; and Ada Oshiro Coleman '83 Here's the backstory: Brenda and Caryn were freshman-year roommates on the first floor A At the home of Dawn Yoshimura-Smith '83 and Larry Smith '84 in Black of A/L, and then the following year Ada and Cathy were freshman roommates Diamond, Wash., on Sept. 12, 2015, front row: Diane Saito Nitta '80; Lori in the exact same room in A/L! Dawn lived in a room at the end of the hall on Odagiri '84, B.S.RT'88; Lori Kudo '83; Jennifer Higa-King '82; Judy Azuma the first floor of A/L as a freshman, and Brenda and Jennifer were roommates '83; and Ada Oshiro Coleman '83. Back row: Steve Lust '83, Gerald Dodo on the first floor of A/L their sophomore year! Does everyone get a roommate '82, P'17; Brian Nitta '82. Brenda Horie Cole '82; hostess Dawn; and Wendell from Hawai'i? Only if you're lucky! Yuen '83.

48 arches winter 2016 A Blake Hickok '88 and his partner A The Logger network in ac- Whitney and Mount Rainier; California surfing; and mountain biking, hiking, and of 10 years. Wayne Merritt, were mar- tion: Here are (from left) Sydney camping throughout Western Washington. This year they were at a cabin on ried on May 15, 2015, on the shores (VanAtta) Van Morgan '93 and the Wenatchee River, and even had T-shirts made for the occasion. Above, from ofWaikoloa, Hawaii. After graduating Hari Sreenivasan '95 on the left; Pat Grimsley '91, Lonnie Ward '91. Ryan Gray '91, Ron Gillespie '91, from the Puget Sound Business Lead- Hopkins Homewood campus of Eric Larson '91, Clint Wallace '90, Dave Ursino '91. and Andrew Alexander ership Program, Blake moved to Den- Johns Hopkins University in North '91, who, the story goes, became the honorary figurehead of this event back in ver, where his career has led him to Baltimore on Sept. 11, 2015. Hari, 1995 at Clint's wedding, when he suggested the group follow the venerable tra- currently serving as COO of a national Emmy-winmng journalist as part of dition of college guys getting together each summer for some kind of outdoor engineering consulting firm. Wayne is the PBS NewsHour team, spoke adventure. Despite the scheduling challenges that come along with growing a purser and trainer for United Airlines. with a group of Sydney's students. families and careers, they've kept their streak going ever since. which has provided the pair with many Sydney earned her Ph D. at Cornell opportunities to travel the world, but University and serves as the direc- Hawai i captured their hearts and has tor of JHU’s International Studies become their second home. Program.

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► What two things go great together? Puget Sound alumni reunions and Cloverleaf pizza, of course! Back, from left Terry Sharrard '83, Steve Lust '83, Dawn Yoshimura-Smith '83. and Larry Smith '84. Front, from left; June A Let it burn! This multigenerational, and previously unknown to one another, Hokama-Sharrard '83, group of alumni discovered their shared connection at the event that has been longtime Puget Sound dubbed "the greatest night in fly-fishing." also known as Burning Pram, held Office of Admission each fall on the Yakima River. Loggers have managed to proudly out-represent staff member Beth the MSU Spartans at Pram for the past several years, which, apparently, is no Brooks Bucsko P'88, easy task. They kindly sent us a photo from this year's event, now in its 13th and Houston Dougharty '83. These former freshman dorm-mates got together year. Pictured in the light of the bonfire, from left: Nick Momyer '00. Cindy in October while Houston was visiting from Long Island. N.Y. Steve, Dawn, and Luke Dieter '82, Paul Dieter '82. Nick Rohrbach '02, Larissa Fell! Rohrbach Houston worked with Beth in admission as student tour guides, and both Steve '04, Mary Pyper '85, and Luke Collova '02. and Houston worked in the admission office right out of college.

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A Vera Divenyi '95 and Christopher Hill were married in Golden, Colo., on Aug 1, 2015. They met on a Saturday-morning bike ride and both enjoy racing road bikes. (Vera's won four national titles on the track as well!) In attendance were friends and family from as far away as Switzerland. Logger alumni Denise Yee '96 and Laura Hebeisen Benson '95 also shared in the celebration. The newlyweds left for their honeymoon in Morocco on Dec. 23. They continue to live in Denver r and intend to ride into many more sunsets. Congratulations!

P~~T 9' ◄ Kimberly Thomas'99 HP k delivered the ■ keynote address B B ■ B11 ■ at the One More III ■ Scholarship HI ■ Fundraising HI ■ Dinner on Oct. BU >1 j 8,2015. In the m address, titled "Both/And: . Black Lives Mat- % ter," Kim spoke about the partic- ular challenges jl experienced by 9 students of color | attending Puget I Sound. To view ■ her address, visit tinyurl.com/qxo3xjh. The Black Student lawn Manor in Sandy Spring, Md. Union of the University of Puget Sound created A July 2015 marked the 18th annual summer camping trip for these Erin earned her master's at the One More Scholarship in 2014. The scholar­ Puget Sound alumni and lifelong friends, this year at Lake Bosworth in Snohomish County, Wash. And look at all those kids! Alumni pictured, Illinois State University and is ship aims to alleviate some of the barriers to pursuing higher education for students of color standing, from left. Scott Henning '95, Dietrich Baker '98, Andrew Pope employed by Choice Hotels. '97, Andy Beavo '97, Erica Cole Farmer '98, Diedre Eubanks Baker '97, Scott recently received his mas­ by providing financial support for textbooks, Jenny Allison Roehl '97, and Virgil Roehl '98. ter's at Colorado State University computers, or other classroom necessities. If and works with The Maryland- you're interested in supporting the One More National Capital Park and Plan­ Scholarship, contact the Black Student Union at ning Commission. The newly­ [email protected]. weds live in Gaithersburg, Md.

50 arches winter 2016 A On Aug 15, 2015, several Loggers got together in Woodstock Park in St. George Shinn, Heather Kamisky Odell, Lauren Bergstedt-Kohler, and Lindsey Myers Yorimoto Classmates' night out (below), from left. Kat Ingalls, ' Portland, Ore., for a farewell picnic celebrating the move of Jeff Wilhelms : '02 and Susanne Olson Wilhelms' '02 to Nuremberg, Germany, where Su- Erik Waterland; Shelley Vessey; Tami St. George Shinn; Julie Vanni '02, sanne began work for Adidas on Sept. 1. Top photo, from left: Azalea Newton, D.P.T/05; Sarah Lange; Lisa Verzi Wellman; Lindsey Myers Yorimoto; Lexi ; Katie McCollam Newton '02, Evelyn Brooks, Maegan Parker Brooks '03, Harlow '03, D.P.T/05; Catherine Eide St. Hilare; Alika Antone '00, D.P.T/05; ! Dave Brooks '02, Sawyer Brooks, Susanne and Jeff, Jon Galloway '02, Willi and Ryan Yorimoto. Front, from left Julie Garner '02, D.P.T/05 and Anja Rapp Evans Galloway '02, Jordan New '02, Rafael Ornelas '02, Melissa Clark '03, D.P.T'05. Many of these classmates still live in the Seattle-Tacoma area, Anderson '02, and Hobbs Anderson. Bottom photo, from left: Carmen Jones but others traveled from as far away as Hawai'i, New York. Montana. Oregon, '03, Asia Jones, Hakim Jones '02, and Maya Jones, with Susanne and Jeff, Eastern Washington, and Idaho to attend the gathering, although several class­ who said it was an absolute blast to have all of these alumni together, and that mates were missed. they're looking forward to lots of travel. !

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A Meredith Ott '06 and Brad Francis were married on July 11, 2015, just outside of Portland, Ore. The wedding party, from left: Jeremy Brooke, Sorenn i ; Francis, the groom and bride, and Darby Riley. Loggers in attendance were Ryan Spence '99, Corinne Miller '02. Megan Ahiers '06, Emma Berman- Michel '06, and Ashley Comar '06. Both Meredith and Brad are teachers and live in Portland. Meredith teaches drama at a K-8 school in Battle Ground, Wash.

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▲ Michelle Brittan '06 and Mario Rosado were married in Long Beach, Calif., on June 27, 2015. From left: Devin Murphy '04. Caitlin Hawks '04, ▲ Tim Baars '06 and Kate Wesche '08 celebrated nuptials in Underwood, Wash., on May 30, 2015, sur­ the bride and groom, and Timothy Strauhal '07 rounded by Logger friends and family. Attendees, from left: Tony Vongdara '07, Alex Fraher '06, Stacy Mario and Michelle met at California State Univer­ Gilmore Cecchet '06, Alex Raposo '08, Carrie Clark Buffington '08. Jeremy Cree '05, Emma Donohew sity. Fresno, where both earned M.FA degrees in '08, Heather Kliment Turner '08, Corinne Fowler Ramsey '08, Devin Turner '06, Justin Horton '05, creative writing, in fiction and poetry respectively. Ethan Allured '06, Emi Turnbull Blaser '08, Roy Lin '06, Brittany Howe Wright '08, Andrea Cederberg After graduation they moved to the Los Angeles Halverson '08, David Baars '08, Brad Forbes '06. Alisha Edmundson Amland '09, Nick Amland '08, area, where Mario teaches high school English and Nicole Juliano '08, and Zeb McCall '08. The newlyweds live in Boston, where Kate is getting her M B A. Michelle is a Ph.D. candidate in literature and cre­ and Tim is working as a management consultant. ative writing at the University of Southern California.

A The happy union of Molly Clevenger '06 and Sam Hardy '06 took place Aug. 8, 2015, in Leavenworth, Wash. The couple were excited to share the day with family and many generations of Loggers. Front, from left: Matthew Clevenger '10 (the bride's cousin), Ben Johnson '06. and Andy Prince '06. Middle, from left: Mo McDonald '06; Torey Anderson D.RT/18; bride's aunt Cathy Muller Clevenger '76; Alissa Morino '08; KarliThorstenson '06; Julia Marie Lewin '06; Kristi Hamilton '06 (groom's cousin); father of the bride Greg Clevenger '74, P'06; the bride and groom; Lauren Furuya '07; Came Sabochik '06, M.A.T/07; Katie Russell Hambley '07, Sammi Farris Sutphin '06, and Kari Hamilton '00 (groom's cousin). Back, from left: Laura O'Haver '71; bride's uncle Mark Clevenger '76; Wyatt Lewin '06; Dan Ashley '05, Will Pearson '06, M.A.T/07; bride's uncle Mike Clevenger '79, P'10; Catherine Kurz Smith '04; and Katie Koch Meyer '06. Molly and Sam have a home in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood. Sam is a senior designer at Porter Novelli, and Molly is an outpatient physical therapist at Olympic Physical Therapy. Photo: Chris Ohta Photography.

52 arches winter 2016 Emma Kelsey '10, under his "wings" at the 2nd ▲ Jason Heino '07 and Jason Bensch '07, who met at Puget Sound during their freshman year, were World Seabird Conference in Cape Town. South married on Aug. 16, 2014, in Portland. Ore. Lots of fellow Loggers were in attendance. Back row. from left. Africa, in October 2015. Peter was a member of the J.B. Wilson '08, Chris Pohlad '07. Kacey Pohlad, Alex Patterson '07, JaninaTymoczko Patterson '05, Ryan Dumm '07, Mollyrose Sommer Dumm '07, Ben Hitch '07, Micaela O'Connor '07, Emily Naftalin Legacy Initiatives Committee for the conference. and he organized a symposium and workshop on '07. Annelise Haft '08 Erin Nugent '08, Travis McNamara '07, and Casey Cleland. Front row. from left: community-based seabird conservation, and pre­ Sarah Wilson, Locke McKenzie '07, Jason Heino and Jason Bensch. Both are in their last year of internal sented a talk and a poster. Pam and Emma each medicine residencies in Portland; Jason Bensch at Oregon Health & Science University and Jason Heino at shared their research at the conference; Pam pre­ Providence Portland Medical Center. Congratulations! I sented a talk and Emma presented a poster. Peter was Emma's research/thesis advisor at UPS. and overlapped with Pam's time on campus for a few semesters.

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A Katie Condit '07 married Rob Ramaker on Oct. 3. 2015, in Bend. Ore. Logger revelers, from left. Meghan Everist '07, Laura Handy '01, the bride. Phoebe Keleman '07, and sister of the bride Robyn Condit Ferret '95. Katie and Laura first con­ nected at Heart of Oregon Corps in Bend, where they worked together providing job experience and alternative education opportunities for youth and young adults. A Heather Carr '09 married Sean Tolbert on March 14, 2015, in Seattle. Logger friends in attendance, from left: Duncan Knudsen '09; Andy Frank '09; Diana Small '08; Tori Kendrick '09; Olivia Davis '09; Ben Schau '09; Carly Cruz '09; mother of the bride Dawn Stickler Carr '75. P'09; Cooper Brooks '09; the bride; Silas Paul '08; Gabrielle Davis '10; Stacy Swiess '09; Ian Andrews '09; Aynsley Muller '09, D.RT/16; Kent Hamar '09, Kelli Ishii '09; Kaitlyn Kubokawa '09; and Kyle Ruzich '09 Present, although not pictured: cousin of the bride Olin Stickler '13 and uncle of the bride Doug Stickler '77. P'13. The couple live in Shoreline, Wash. Heather is a project manager in advertising with the HackerAgency.

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A Rob Wellington '11, M.A.T/12 sends this fun update: "I launched an alumni and current corps members association for AmeriCorps at the 'I Have a Dream’ Foundation in Boulder. Colo. At the event I hosted in October. I discovered that one of the AmeriCorps volunteers this year is Laurel Olfson '15.” During the event, titled Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night, held at the Front Range Brewing Company in Lafayette. Colo., Lau­ rel proudly displayed her UPS sweatshirt. From left: current AmeriCorps members Whitney, Laurel, Rob. Christian, Elyana (the foundation's AmeriCorps site director). Atalanta, Jeff, and Rachael. A Maureen Wolsborn '10 traveled to Siem Reap. Cambodia. April 22-25, 2015, to serve as a U.S leader/mentor for the White House's Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Generation EARTH workshop. She is pictured in front of the famous Temple of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, a UNESCO world heritage site. Maureen lives in Denver and works at public policy consulting firm Engaged Public. She applied to participate in the workshop and led a session on public engagement for workshop participants, who were young leaders from across Southeast Asia.

A Kendal Freyer Keyes '10. a graduate of Puget Sound's Music Business program, joined the administrative staff of the Music Center of the Northwest in March 2014. Music Center A Loggers Erica Hann '11 and Jess Forbes A A little slow on the uptake with this one: is a nonprofit community music school in Seattle s Greenwood '13 are working for the Sierra Institute for Corn- Here's Sarah Strattan '11 and Arches editor neighborhood. The school recently welcomed another Logger munity and Environment in Taylorsville, Calif. Chuck Luce on the summit of Mount Rainier to its staff. In September 2015 Ryan Schultz joined Music Erica assists with social science research and last June. Mr. Editor had signed up with Center of the Northwest as new director of Educational Out­ capacity building in rural forested areas of Cali- Rainier Mountaineering to guide his attempt reach and Partnerships. Ryan is an affiliate faculty artist of tuba fornia. Jess works with youth on restoration and was stoked to find that a Logger was and euphonium for Puget Sound's School of Music and contm- projects and is developing a natural resource assigned as one of the guides on his team. ues to play with the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Outside of work education program at a local high school. Turns out that several Puget Sound grads Kendal plays in the Lake Union Civic Orchestra, a Seattle-based are on the RMI guide staff, leading climbs all community orchestra. over the world.

54 arches winter 2016 A Arches editor Chuck Luce was visiting old haunts in New England this past summer, and he dropped in on Kevin Staehly '14 (seen here with his dad) at the Staehlys' family farm and winery in East Haddam, Conn. The Staehlys recently started mak­ A Rick Day '13 and Auriel Sperberg '11 were married on campus in Kilworth Memorial Chapel on Sept. 26, 2015. ing fruit wines—three different apple At UPS Rick played football and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and Auriel played softball. (She will be wines, a blueberry wine, and a unique an assistant coach for the Logger softball team this season.) Several alums were present at the wedding, including the and prize-winning tomato wine—and softball team! In the bridal party, from left: Malcolm Wilson, James Grant, Myles McDonald '13, John Breskovich Mr. editor was thrilled to get a private '13, James Fisher, the groom and bride, Andrea Sperberg, Shannon Sperberg, Courtney Longfellow, Elizabeth "Bijou" tasting. You can drop in virtually at Felder '11, and Alex Usher '11 staehlys.com.

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A Here are Leah Shamlian '14 and Rachael Mallon '12 after they portaged the Wanapum Dam near Vantage, Wash., on day 18 (of 42, at about the 415- mile mark) of their 750-mile Columbia River journey from Canada to the Pacific Ocean! They borrowed Ocean Adventure Rowing Northwest's boat, which was used on the Mississippi last summer as part of the OAR NW Rowboat Class­ A This mini Puget Sound alumni reunion was at Point Reyes in Marin County. room. The journey was similar to the Mississippi voyage, in that Rachael and Calif., on Aug. 1. From left: Jesse Hamburger '10. Kristi Visser'12, Kali Odell Leah shared their passion for the environment and adventure with schoolchil- '12, Brooke Yokoyama '12, and Caira Ortiz '12. All of those pictured live in the • dren along the way, and afterward with classes in Portland. Ore. Consistently Bay Area, except for Kali, who was visiting from Amherst, Mass. there for the ride was "Rex the rower," OAR NW's mascot who has been on every expedition so far—across the Atlantic, down the Mississippi, and now, down the Columbia! All of this is part of an idea that OAR NW alums and founders Jordan Hanssen '04 and Greg Spooner '01, D.RT/10 have to cre­ ate a class experience at UPS that would then lead to work with their annual program with classrooms on the Mississippi. You can follow Leah and Rachael's adventure and find out how you can get involved at rowboatclassroom.org and oarnorthwest.com.

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Chuck Luce, Editor 0 CathyTollefson '83, P'17, Associate Editor. Classmates 03 Julie Reynolds, Designer E Ross Mulhausen, Photographer, unless credited otherwise Maya Makino '19, Intern 03 ► Happy Halloween from these Denver o Alumni Council Executive Committee Loggers! From left: Donald Moenning '10, ! Leslie Skinner Brown '92, President; David Watson '92. Past who hosted the party: Devin Black '10; President; Andrea Tull '02. Vice President; Darrell Frost '04, Vice Meghan Webking '09; Jake Thom '11; Margo President for Communications; Eric Herzog '94, Secretary; Archey '10; Molly Danziger '08; and Sam Mark Penaroza '02, Admission Chair; Allison McCurdy Kalalau Stookesberry '10. The photo credit goes to '03, M.A.T.'04, Affinity Groups Chair; Heidi Winkenwerder honorary Logger Michael Sobota. Schooley '97, Alumni Fund Chair; John Hines '05, M.A.T.'06, Athletics Chair; Ted Meriam ‘05, Class Programs Chair; Andrea Tull '02, Career and Employment Services Chair; Deb Bachman V14 ◄ Annamarie Nelson '12, Crawford '80, Regional Clubs Chair; Ken McGill '61. Student M.A.T/13 and Michael Volz '12 Life Chair; Alana Levine-Gorelick '17, Student Alumni Association President m were married on July 11, 2015, at j4'; . the American Swedish Institute in Contacting arches i ■ Minneapolis. Minn. The two met at Circulation Puget Sound in the Wind Ensemble To change the address to which your copy of arches is mailed «V and also both lived in Seward Hall & • V • - . : or to remove your name from the mailing list for the print V • during their freshman year. Log­ edition of arches, please call Cathy Tollefson at 253-879-2762, ■ ...» or write [email protected]. ■ *;i gers on hand to celebrate: Elayna Van Hess '12. M.A.T/13; Daniel w . Editorial Offices Goodrich '09; Devin Fields '12; Voice: 253-879-2762; Fax: 253-879-3149, Email: arches® Brynn Blickenstaff '12, D.RT'16; pugetsound edu; Post: Arches, Office of Communications, Stephen Kelsey '12; Laura Erskine University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St.. Tacoma WA '12. M.A.T/13; Justin Ehli '09. 98416-1041. ■ ' 1 M.A.T/10; Preston Van Buren '13, \v arches unbound Theresa Henle '12; Kati Chan '12, pugetsound.edu/arches D.RT'16; Mikaela Freeman '12; < [' v. ^ Allison Schoening '12, M.A.T/14; 1 arches (USPS 003-932) is published quarterly by the University 1 \ i Grace Reid '12; Chandler Fox '12; of Puget Sound, Office of Communications, 1500 N. Warner St., \ Stefani Vert '12; and Jeremy Temp- Tacoma WA 98416-1041. Periodicals postage paid at Tacoma, kin '12. Michael and Annamarie live Wash., and at additional mailing offices. in Tacoma. Michael works for an l \ affordable-housing company in Seat- PRINTED IN U.S.A. 4 tie, and Annamarie is a kindergarten Postmaster: Send address corrections to arches, Office of teacher in Lakewood. Wash. y \ Communications, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St.. Tacoma WA 98416-1041.

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Settling in

Several years ago, when we asked Lestraundra Alfred 71 to write about her college experi­ ences in these pages—-for four years, from Convocation to Commencement—it was a hit with readers. So we thought wed try again. Meet Maya Makino '19, from Areata, Calif, the new Arches intern.

Extra-long nvin sheets, Christmas lights, shower caddy, mini fridge—with my shop­ ping complete this past August I thought I was prepared to start college. I had visited at least 15 schools over the course of my college search and was happy to have found Puget Sound. Despite all the time I’d spent learning about what different colleges had to offer, I didn’t actually know what college life would be like. The adjustment was much more dif­ ficult than I expected. I’m afraid to say that l spent most of orientation week dashing to various bathrooms to cry, homesick and overwhelmed. It didn’t help when the orientation backpacking trip coincided with three days of pouring rain. On the way back to campus, it was so stormy that our bus ended up stuck in a ditch with several wheels off the ground—firefighters appeared to help students climb : out the emergency exit. After that experience, I just wanted to go home. Coming from Humboldt County, in Northern California, I thought I knew all about rain, fog, and short, dark days, but moving to Tacoma took it to a whole new level. It has seemed to rain every day this winter, and it turns out that the new raincoat that worked fine at home can’t stand up to what Tacoma drops on you. I did witness a few warm, sunny days during the admitted-students weekend last spring, so I hold out hope that someday I will see the sun, and possibly the mythical Mount Rainier. Another surprise about college is how busy I am. Aside from working far Arches (which I love, even if it does mean a lot of tedious fact-checking), I have been writing sto­ ries for The Trail. There is always something to do on campus with my friends, from get­ ting pizza at The Cellar to playing presidential-debate bingo (“Benghazi,” “glass ceiling”). Oh yeah, there are also my four classes. From “Islam in America” to “Marriage in His­ tory and Literature,” my professors provide interesting and unexpected perspectives. Since my classes have as few as a dozen students. I’ve gotten the chance to know my classmates pretty well. Informal study groups have also turned out to be a good way to make friends. Dorm life has also been an adjustment. On Anderson/Langdon floor three, where I live, it’s exciting to have so many people around all the time but also overwhelming. I thought I was pretty extroverted until I started wondering when I’d get a little quiet time. But I’m learning to adapt. When it’s not pouring I like to run down to Commencement Bay and sit on the boardwalk to regroup and recharge. In October my mother came to visit for a few days. I thought that saying goodbye to her would be just as heart-wrenching as it was in August; however, walking back along my hallway after a weekend away, I was greeted with hugs and high fives. One thing I worried about before leaving for college was finding enough quarters for laundry. But at school I was pleasantly surprised to learn that use of the washers and dryers is free. Similarly, many of the other things that I had agonized over have resolved themselves. While I am still figuring out this whole college thing, I have faith that it’ll work out. wy- To be added to or removed from % the arches mailing list, or to correct your address, use the arc online form at pugetsound.edu/ University of Puget Sound infoupdate, or cal! 253.879.3299, or write Office of University Relations Tacoma, Washington Information Services, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., pugetsound.edu/arches Tacoma WA 98416-1063.

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