Gazette Outstanding Students, Faculty, Staff From far left, Watson recipient ready Watson fellow trip before attending the Focusing on “the gendered to raft, and preserve, Sarah Lee University of Kentucky’s dimensions of the ethnic and civil Lawrence, ’04, Summer Environmental war” in Sri Lanka, Moore will exam- world’s wild rivers Truman scholar Writing Program. In ine how “images of womanhood and Brad Bowen, ’05, August she will attend motherhood” are militarized and and President the Udall Scholars Ori- used to reinforce nationalism and other Nature must take entation Weekend at the how both war and peace are “gen- Cronin, and Udall comfort in knowing that Udall Center for Studies dered” in ways that have material scholar Savanna MSarah Lee Lawrence, ’04, in Public Policy at the consequences for women, she said. is among the next generation of Ferguson, ’06 University of Arizona. Before beginning her Fulbright conservationists ready to stand Between these activities research, Moore will work for five vigilant guard over what remains she will return to her months as assistant director of the of the world’s wild rivers. job at the West Virginia Intercollegiate Sri Lanka Education Lawrence, a sociology and envi- Burgundy Center for (ISLE) study abroad program in Sri ronmental studies major, graduated Wildlife Studies. Lanka. She also has been selected in May and is on her way to Siberia, Truman Scholar In addition to two terms as ASWC ship will help defray her Whitman The Udall program honors the late to attend the Freeman East Asian her focus riveted on a year-long first president, Bowen served as captain expenses. Ferguson is pursuing an Arizona congressman and his legacy Program in Kyoto, Japan, this sum- step into a life of international river looks to career of the soccer team and president of individually-designed major in envi- of public service and concern for the mer. Moore plans to attend graduate conservation. in civil rights law the Whitman Civil Liberties Union. ronmental studies/writing. environment. school in international and South Born and raised in central Oregon, “I came to Whitman because I Asian studies. not far from the Deschutes River, Bradley Bowen is rarely silent. Udall winner focuses wanted a school with an environmen- Two ’04 graduates A geology major, Berney Roberts Lawrence is one of 50 graduating Since entering Whitman in the fall of tal studies major that would allow claim Fulbright awards will teach English at the middle or seniors in the nation to receive a 2001, he has lent his voice to many on environment, writing me to focus on the humanities as high school level in Korea while also Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Her segments of the Whitman com- Rachel Anna “Savanna” Ferguson, opposed to the sciences,” said Fergu- Lisa Moore, ’04, a politics major, studying Korean Sign Language. year-long travel and study project, munity, including ASWC and the a junior at Whitman this fall, is one of son, “and I always knew I wanted to won a Fulbright research fellowship Berney Roberts, who plans a teach- titled “Rafting and River Conserva- Whitman Civil Liberties Union. But 80 students from around the country include writing.” for a project in Sri Lanka, and Megan ing career, has been an America tion on the World’s Biggest, Wild- when he learned he’d won a coveted honored as 2004 Morris K. Udall Ferguson traveled to Bulgaria this Berney Roberts, ’04, received a Ful- Reads volunteer at local schools and est Water,” will take her to rivers in Harry S Truman Scholarship to help Scholarship recipients. The scholar- summer on an environmental studies bright to teach English in Korea. has worked with deaf children. Siberia, Zambia, Chile, and Peru. pay for graduate studies, he was, for The rivers she has chosen each a moment, speechless. present a particular ecological and Bowen was among 80 U.S. college cultural landscape, and all are endan- juniors to receive Truman Scholar- S t u d e n t s Shaped by Latino most of them employed at The research is part of a participation, along with gered by dam proposals, she said. ships this year. The awards are given culture and bearing native meat-packing plants near book Apostolidis is writing wages and benefits, has She plans to work as a river guide on the basis of leadership potential, familiarity with the Span- Wallula, Washington, and about the politics of labor gone down.” while gathering data about conser- commitment to a career in public lend skills ish language, seniors Fort Morgan, Colorado. unions in a meat-pack- Recent Mexican immi- vation efforts and the development service, and academic achievement. Paola Vizcaino and Natalie Vizcaino, who helped ing industry now heavily grants and Mexican- pressures at work. With majors in both politics and to immigrant Mariona brought expertise design the interview reliant on Hispanic immi- Americans make up about As a junior, Lawrence studied rhetoric, Bowen plans to use his beyond their academic format, assisted with all 24 grant workers. “This is an 85 percent of the workforce conservation biology and wildlife scholarship to attend Columbia skills to a research project interviews at Wallula, while industry that’s gone from at Tyson’s Wallula plant, management for six months in Kenya University where he will study law w o r k e r on immigrant workers, Mariona and Apostolidis supporting a privileged which is about 40 miles and then traveled for three months and the social and political sciences. labor unions, and the meat- made a 2003 spring break workforce in the 1960s, from the Whitman campus. as part of Whitman’s Semester in the Afterward, he hopes to work as a research — packing industry. trip to Fort Morgan for 15 one that was mostly native- Apostolidis was glad to West class. trial attorney for a public interest Over the past two years, interviews. Before gradu- born, white male union- have Vizcaino, a native of She has logged more than 2,000 organization. His long-term goal is Paul Apostolidis, associate ating in May of this year, ized workers with fairly Metepec, Mexico, on hand miles on the West’s wild rivers as a to return to his home state of Mon- a n d c a u s e professor of politics, has both students had also high wages, to having a for the interviews. “In most trained whitewater rafting guide for tana to practice public interest law, conducted extensive ethno- helped with painstaking mostly immigrant work- cases, I think I was getting the past three summers. At Whitman focusing on such issues as education graphic interiews with transcription and analysis force where injury rates she has worked for the Outdoor and the environment as well as civil 45 immigrant workers, of the collected material. have gone up while union continued on page 16 Program. rights for Native Americans. 14 Whitman Magazine July 2004 15 At Commencement, President Cronin presents a trophy to Jim Hanson, National Debate Coach of the Year. Students aid Tony Cabasco, ’90, is the new dean of admis- sion and financial aid at Whitman College. in research — Cabasco worked at Whitman as an admission continued from page 15 officer before earning an M.A. in international studies at the University of Washington. 80 to 85 percent of what Paola Vizcaino, was being said,” he notes. center, and In 1995, he rejoined the Whitman admission “Understanding the every- Natalie Marona office. He served as director of admission for day Spanish colloquialisms meet with three years until last fall when he was named of Mexicans and Mexican- Professor acting dean. Americans wasn’t always David Holden Apostolidis. ’03 Adam Hardtke, within my capabilities. It was incredibly helpful to have Paola there to catch everything.” Both Mariona and a tremendous role in keep- An economics major, learn Japanese as well. She Apostolidis was just as Vizcaino displayed top- ing the union in place,” Mariona was one of about is one of 10 Whitman stu- thankful to have Mariona notch interviewing skills, Apostolidis says. “More 30 juniors from around dents who received funding Faculty — and the president — garner honors present for interviews at Apostolidis says. “They than anything else, it’s the country to attend to study traditional Japa- showed a knack for heartening for the workers Princeton University’s nese arts early this summer the Fort Morgan plant, Associate Professor Jim Hanson: Associate Professor Phil Brick: handling topics that were to know that people outside Summer Institute on Public in Kyoto, Japan. In July, she where the workforce is Coach of the Year Environmental Educator Award about 50 percent Mexican, in many cases sensitive. the plant know and care Policy and International was to begin a six-month 25 percent Guatemalan Many of these workers had about what’s going on. It’s Affairs last summer. She internship doing research Now in his 12th season as director of Associate professor of politics Phil and 25 percent Salvadoran. never been asked, by any- very rewarding to see our plans to pursue a master’s with the AFL-CIO’s Office the Whitman speech and debate teams, Brick has been awarded the Environmen- Mariona and her fam- one, for their opinions or students make a difference degree in some aspect of of Investment in Washing- Jim Hanson has received the National tal Education Association of Washington’s ily were displaced by El about their experiences as in the world around them, public policy advocacy, ton, D.C. Her internship Coach of the Year Award. He is only the 2003-2004 Educator’s Award. Salvador’s 12-year civil war, immigrants, either inside while they are here.