The aTHE ALBANYte SOCIETYh’S NEWSLETTERo usFOR SENIOR ALUMNIe G FALL ISSUE 2013 Looking to Find a Classmate? Here’s How Want to reconnect with a Lewis & Clark classmate you haven’t talked to or seen for 50 years? It may not be as hard as you think. The college has a web page on the Internet specifically set up for its alumni. One of the features of that site is an alumni directory that may yield the information you are seeking. “It’s a great tool,” said Angela Torretta, associate director of Alumni and Parent Programs. “We often get alumni calling our office in hopes of making contact with past college friends,” Torretta added. “Due to privacy restrictions, we can’t give out that information. The online directory, however, puts it at your fingertips.” You get to the website by typing in mylc.lclark.edu. First-time users will need to register. It may take a day or two for your information to be verified by the college. GOLDEN REUNION Once you have access, you will be for the Class of 1963 during Reunion Weekend in June produced a lot of hugs and story able to find the directory on the telling. (Top left) Years and miles disappeared when classmates Karen McKay Wallace and Joanne Bourne right-hand side of the screen under Weah got together. (Top right) Checking out yearbook pictures helped Bill Barber, Bert Lundmark, and Dr. Carl “myLC.” Howard reconnect. (Below) More than 37 members of the Class of 1963 and their spouses gathered at the Continued on Page 2 Cooley House for a reunion dinner hosted by President Barry Glassner and his wife, Betsy Amster. Senior Social Hour Launches Holiday Manor House Event Here’s an opportunity to kick off the p.m. holiday reception, a traditional concludes Saturday’s events. holiday season with old friends and gathering of the extended college Don Floren ‘55, chair of the at the same time revisit the Manor community in the Manor House Albany Society’s board of directors, House in all of its seasonal finery. hosted by President Barry Glassner says the social hour that replaces the This year’s Albany Society winter and his wife, Betsy Amster. society’s holiday luncheon gives event for senior alumni is a social An 8 p.m. choral performance in senior alumni a special opportunity hour starting at 5:30 p.m., Saturday, Agnes Flanagan Chapel, featuring to join the rest of the community in December 7, in the Manor House. seasonal music by Cappella Nova celebrating the season. The free event precedes the 6:30 and directed by Kathy FitzGibbon, Stafford Centennial Continues Connecting The yearlong centennial celebration of William With Classmates Stafford, beloved Lewis & Clark professor and Continued from Page 1 one of Oregon’s greatest poets, continues. You can make a query by entering A number of events, exhibits, and readings are the name of the person you’re on the schedule in the coming months, including a looking for. If a match is found in the February 7-8 symposium, You Must Revise Your directory, you then will be able to Life, at locations on campus and throughout the access additional information by city. clicking on the matched name. The symposium, sponsored by the Northwest The site also provides other Writing Institute and led by Bill’s son, Kim, will alumni information, including news look at his influence on the arts as a whole, his about Albany Society and other work as a photographer, and the impact he had on upcoming events. You can register music, art and the written word. For an up-to-date listing of scheduled events, for events online through the site. go to lclark.edu/william_stafford. For those who don’t use com- Stafford, who taught at L&C for more than four puters, the alumni office can be of decades, was Oregon’s poet laureate, poet-in- help in making contacts, according to residence at the Library of Congress, and a National Book Award winner. He Torretta. passed away in August of 1993, at the age of 79. “We will contact the person you are looking for and either forward the query or get permission to pass Medallions Honor Graduates on the phone number and address,” Torretta said. Throughout the seal. It is used by the college in a The telephone number for this centuries special variety of official presentations in service is 503-768-7950. achievements addition to the 50-year class If you haven’t yet accessed have been recognition. mylc.lclark.edu, take a minute to go recognized by The seal on the medallion depicts in and check your own profile under awarding in abstract the natural Pacific the “myLC” heading, and, if medallions. The Northwest landscape. It bears the necessary, update it or add 2013 Golden year 1867, the year the college was Reunion lunch- founded, and the words explorare (to information. eon was no explore), discere (to learn), and sociare exception. (to work together). The words “The Black & Orange Parties Twenty members of the Class of Albany Society” are stamped on the Breaking Out Worldwide 1963 in attendance at the luncheon back of the medallion. were presented medallions by Dean Class of 1949 members who On November 6, Black and Orange of the College of Arts and Sciences attended their 50th reunion luncheon Parties will be breaking out Tuajuanda Jordan on behalf of Lewis in 1999 were the first to receive the simultaneously all over the world. & Clark. The presentation com- medallions. The presentation The locally hosted parties that memorated their commencement 50 ceremony became a centerpiece of attract alums young and old as well years earlier. subsequent Golden Class Reunions as parents and friends of Lewis & The bronze medallion they and serves as a symbolic welcome of Clark take place in a wide variety of received was cast in 1999 and bears the entire 50-year class into the venues. the official Lewis & Clark College Albany Society. The intent of the parties is to bring alumni together, welcome alumni from the class of 2013, and make new Charitable Annuity Can Boost Cash Flow connections for the college. You can increase your cash flow and reduce your taxes at the same time with Last year more than 1,000 college a charitable gift annuity. Through a simple contract, you donate assets to alumni and friends attended Black Lewis & Clark. We reinvest your contribution and provide you with fixed and Orange Parties in 40 cities in this annual payments for life. At the end of the contract, your contribution will country from New York to Hawaii benefit the L&C program of your choice. and Alaska to Texas. Black and For a couple between the ages of 75 and 80, the rate is 5.3 percent. As an Orange celebrations also had an example, a $10,000 contribution would allow the couple to receive a $3,670 international flavor with nine parties charitable tax deduction, a $530 annuity for life, and the satisfaction of going on in six different countries. leaving a legacy for Lewis & Clark students. If you are interested in exploring If you want to learn about a party a charitable gift annuity, please call Sharon Bosserman-Benson at 800-753- near you, visit go.lclark.edu/black/ 9292. and/orange. BACK ON THE HILL 1963 Golden Reunion Weekend The College: “A Lasting Experience” A 1956 alumna writes about the impact of of making music, especially when you her experience at Lewis & Clark. are sharing it with your dear friends. “I’ve always been proud about “Somewhere along the way, perhaps being a music major and a member of because of my Shakespeare professor the Class of 1956. I just checked my at L&C, Ralph Allen, I was bitten by the calculator and that tells me it’s been 57 writing bug. years. “I just finished my first book, Salt “My memories are rich in gratitude and Pepper, the story of a 12-year-old for having teachers and mentors such girl and her horses. The small-town as L. Stanley Glarum, Reinhard Pauly, setting somewhat resembles my Robert Stoltz and Boris Sirpo, just to hometown of Hood River, Oregon. Now mention a few. I am working on a sequel. “They gave me reason for my life’s “The best part of Lewis & Clark is path. Little did I know at graduation that it was where I met my husband, how much they had influenced me. Peggy and Hal Swafford Hal Swafford ‘55, who has a bachelor’s “Not long after graduating I joined and master’s degree from the college. the Oregon Symphony as a violinist. I taught strings in the David Douglas We were married a couple of years after and Beaverton school districts, and meeting when we were in the L&C then became an associate professor of orchestra. music at Portland State, teaching string “He played trombone and I played Remembering methods. violin; music was fun for us. We have Classmates who have passed away in recent “It was there that I found my true two sons, both musicians, and four months, based on information gathered by Lewis interest: composing. grandchildren. It has been a wonderful & Clark College. “I’ve written and arranged num- life together. Virginia Smith Poling ‘34 erous pieces for our string quartet “For me, the college was and is a July 19, 2013 “Tapestry.” We play a concert each year special and lasting experience. Thank Althea Brown Dorman ‘42* at The Old Church in downtown you Lewis & Clark.” Spring, 2013 Portland.