Winter 2005 - Linfield College

LINFIELD
Winter 2005
MAGAZINE
Student Profile
Table of Contents
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New life leads to Linfield
Viktoria Putintsev ‘05, editor-in-chief of The Linfield Review, became involved
with journalism by accident, after inadvertently signing up for newspaper class
instead of yearbook at Dallas High School.
One cold March morning, 6-year-old Viktoria
Putintsev ‘05 left life as she knew it behind.
It was 1989, and as the Soviet Union collapsed
around them, Putintsev and her family left their home
in Ukraine in search of a better life. They immigrated to
the United States, settling in a Russian community in
Lebanon.
“I remember going to school and people’s mouths
were moving but I didn’t know what they were saying,”
said Putintsev of Dallas, whose sister, Julia ‘06, was also
born in Ukraine. “I had no idea what was going on.”
Now, 16 years later, Putintsev has flourished as a
mass communication honors student and editor-inchief of The Linfield Review. She manages the student
newspaper much like the rest of her life, with hard
work, integrity and focus, and balances other responsibilities as well. She is an academic assistant in the mass
communication department, a colloquium peer advisor,
and a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and SPURS
honor societies.
“She’s one of our finest students,” said William
Lingle, professor of mass communication. “She’s taken
the initiative to do practical work as well as academic
work, and excels at both.”
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Putintsev, named Oregon High School Journalist of
the Year in 2001, joined the Review staff as a freshman
reporter and worked her way up the ranks to the top
position this year. The journey has bolstered her
self-confidence.
“I truly believe I can do anything,” she said. “I used
to be shy and timid, and journalism has really smashed
all that. I can talk to anybody about anything, and
I don’t have a fear of much.”
As a sophomore, Putintsev was the youngest of 12
Oregon students to earn a prestigious Charles Snowden
Internship, and she spent 10 weeks at The Tri-County
News in Junction City. Stints at the Polk County Itemizer
Observer and the Grants Pass Daily Courier strengthened
her journalistic skills as well.
“One thing I’ve taken away from Linfield is that no
matter what job I get into, whether within my intended major or not, I will have the ability to write and that
will help me wherever I go,” she said.
She’s built strong relationships with a number of
Linfield professors such as Lingle, who is her advisor and
The Linfield Review advisor.
“I feel free to come talk to him whenever, and that
was one of the things I was hoping for when I chose
Linfield,” she said. “Not only does he know my name,
he knows most everything about me.”
During her years at Linfield, Putintsev has developed a strong interest in social work, particularly in
Latin American countries, and she has traveled to Costa
Rica, Cuba, Spain and, in January, Russia. She’s fluent in
Spanish, and can understand Russian.
Last spring, Putintsev and her family returned to
Ukraine for the first time in 15 years. She visited the
house where she lived, and where her aunt and
grandmother still reside. The crowded city and muddy
streets were a stark contrast to the idyllic memories of
her childhood.
“It was another experience in my appreciation for
coming back to Linfield and realizing, had my parents
stayed there, what different lives we would have had,”
she said. “I can’t believe my life turned out this way.
Some days I walk through the campus and think, ‘I can’t
believe that I’m here.’ I thank God that I got this far and
I’m grateful to Linfield. I hope one day I can give back.”
– Laura Davis
Inside Linfield Magazine
Linfield has long been known for its
strong international focus, with over 50 percent
of our graduates studying abroad at some
time. This issue focuses on international education,
its benefits and its importance for greater global
understanding. The experiences are varied and
range from students working at an orphanage
in Mexico and traveling back in time in London
during a January Term class, to the dialogue
shared between community members and a
visiting Islamic scholar. These are a fraction
of the stories our students and faculty could tell
but all share one theme – international education
has the power to changes lives, both here and
abroad. We hope to share more stories with you
in the future.
— Mardi Mileham
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A View from Melrose
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Linfield Digest
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Alumni News
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Class Notes
Features
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An adult degree student wins a top award for a
play he co-authored.
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Giving students an inside look
Four alumni share their time and expertise with
Linfield juniors to give them a glimpse inside a
variety of professions.
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The world is their classroom
International study broadens perspectives and changes
lives. A look at global education, Linfield style.
On the covers:
Front: Alex Kirk ‘05 set up this photo of himself
with children in Ghana during a January Term
class in 2004.
Lipkin wins Oregon Book Award
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A perfect season
The Wildcats capture the NCAA Division III
football title.
Back: The Wildcats pose in front of the scoreboard
following their 28-21 championship win in Salem,
Va. (Sol Neelman photo)
LINFIELD MAGAZINE
Editor
Mardi Mileham
mmileham@linfield.edu
503-883-2498
Assistant Editor
Laura Davis
Graphic Design
Candido Salinas III
Photography
Taylor Anderson ‘05
Tom Ballard
Kelly Bird
Pamela Canady ‘04
Laura Davis
Steve Dipaola
Richard Hargreaves
Mayra Herra
Tom Love
Julianne Mattson ‘04
Kim McGough ‘05
Mardi Mileham
Abra McNair ‘05
Sol Neelman
Melissa Schmeer ‘04
Veronica Walker ‘05
Latham Wood ‘04
Carol Wyatt
Contributors
Kelly Bird
Vivian A. Bull
Lisa Garvey ‘86
Laura Graham ‘07
Peter A. McGraw
Beth Rogers Thompson
President
Vivian A. Bull
Vice President
for College Relations
Bruce Wyatt
Director of Alumni
Relations
Advisory Board
Lisa Garvey ‘86
Ed Gans
Kerry (Van Wyngarden)
Hinrichs ‘96
Dick Hughes ‘75
R. Gregory Nokes
Sherri (Dunmyer) Partridge ‘86
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by Linfield College,
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A View from Melrose
Student Profile
Lipkin wins Oregon Book Award
Diverse cultures enrich life
Not everyone on our
street was Swedish.
In fact, in the small
mining and lumber town in
northern Michigan where I
grew up, within our block
we had families who were
Greek Orthodox, German,
Swedish, Finnish, Orthodox
Jewish and Polish. Most
of the parents spoke their
native languages, and the
first-generation Americans
tried to learn the languages, mostly so we could understand what our parents were saying to each other.
Our hero was Adam Meliss from Poland, who
owned and operated the popcorn wagon all summer
long. We felt he had been the most successful immigrant
of all on the block.
What a rich learning environment, and what wonderful food we shared as we celebrated the traditions of
the various cultures!
In college in the early 1950s, I had my first opportunity to study abroad. Much to the chagrin of my
Swedish parents, I traveled to Norway to study for a
term, and that began my life-long love of travel and
learning about other cultures and other countries.
That is when I began to understand how
much we had to learn from each other
and how much our world needed that
shared understanding. It still does.
My life has been richer for having known so many
people around the world. I have lived as a member of a
minority in the world of Islam and the Jewish community in Israel. I have studied, traveled and taught in
Europe. I am working with students at Africa University
from 21 African countries, with 26 tribal languages.
And it all began on that street in northern Michigan.
Fewer American children nowadays grow up amid
the kind of diversity that my childhood playmates and I
took for granted. This makes it all the more important
for them to be exposed to diversity later on and to learn
to value it. We are living in a diverse world and it is
imperative that we encourage our students to learn and
explore other countries and other cultures. We need to
help them appreciate the importance of living and
learning in a multicultural environment.
If we can teach our students those lessons, they in
turn can help others view the color of one’s skin, the
accent in one’s voice, the religious practices of one’s
faith, the special foods that we share as opportunities for
growth, learning and enjoyment.
In so many ways our alumni, students and faculty have
helped us, from the Reach Back Mentors group to the
support group that our students provide for biracial families.
Our Hawaiian alumni still come to roast the pigs for
the lu’au—an experience they want to continue to share.
Our Japanese exchange students dress in their beautiful kimonos to entertain the school children and the
residents of a retirement home.
Our Spanish-speaking students reach out in many
ways to serve our changing community here in the valley.
All of our international students, from over 20
countries, come to share with us, as well as learn more
about the complex, joyful and beautiful United States.
Our faculty, through their research and outreach,
have led many of us to a better understanding of the rich
diversity that is becoming a part of our everyday lives.
This issue of Linfield Magazine highlights the experiences of some of today’s Linfield students as they
encountered diversity in the college’s international programs. The experiences themselves are diverse, as are the
programs that made them possible and the greatly
expanded number of countries students can now visit as
part of their Linfield education. As varied as the experiences are, they all share a common denominator: the
transformational effect they have had on the way these
young people see the world, and sometimes themselves.
– Vivian A. Bull
President Vivian A. Bull learning the pipa,
a Chinese lute, at Wenzhou University
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Shelly Lipkin ‘05 made a
few good friends as he
penned his recent awardwinning play.
Lipkin, of Lake Oswego,
earned a 2004 Oregon Book
Award for Vitriol and Violets,
a play he co-authored with
Louanne Moldovan and
Sherry Lamoreaux.
“You kind of live it,”
said Lipkin, of the story.
“The characters become
Shelly Lipkin ‘05
your best friends, in a way.”
Vitriol and Violets is set in the 1920s at Manhattan’s
Algonquin Hotel, where a group of writers – future
Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winners – gathered
each day for lunch. The group, known as the Algonquin
Round Table, included writers like Dorothy Parker,
Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Edna Ferber,
Harold Ross and Harpo Marx. They played poker
and extreme croquet, and even bought a vacation island
together.
“These were wild people who had lunch together
every day in the Algonquin Hotel,” said Lipkin, who
also co-produced and acted in the play. “At the time,
none of them were famous. They were broke, the
Algonquin was a pit, but they were brilliant writers.This
was the beginning of Broadway.”
It took a year to write the play, which initially
opened in 2002. Editing from early performances resulted in the current version.
Lipkin, who is working toward a humanities degree
through Linfield’s Adult Degree Program, recently finished writing a second play, Sylver Beach’s [sic], which
has doubled as his Linfield senior thesis. He is now
writing a third play, a comedy, focusing on how a man
deals with his brother’s suicide.
“Literature has to entertain people, hold their
interest and capture their imagination,” he said.
“That’s what I think of when I write.”
With Vitriol finished, another play newly
completed and a third in the works,
Lipkin is making his mark as a playwright. He has been involved in
theater since age 20, when he
took to the stage as a student at
the College of Marin and the
Shelly Lipkin ‘05, left, as Robert Benchley and
Jane Ferguson as Dorothy Parker in a scene from
the award-winning play Vitriol and Violets, which
he co-authored.
U.S. International University School of Performing Arts.
He put school on the back burner after being accepted to
perform with the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
He spent the next 20 years in Los Angeles as a television and film actor, appearing in numerous movies,
commercials and sitcoms, before moving to Oregon in
1998. Most recently, he appeared in the Sundance
Festival award-winning film Mean Creek.
Lipkin was co-artistic director of Cygnet
Productions from 2000 to 2003 and served as co-artistic director of West Coast Ensemble Theatre. In addition
to his theatrical work, he is an adjunct professor at
Marylhurst University and teaches drama for Lakewood
Theatre Company. He is also a teacher and consultant at
New Horizons Computer Center.
Lipkin said he returned to school “for my soul. I
wanted to have a degree,” and found a good fit with
Linfield’s flexible schedule, weekend classes and topnotch faculty.
“I’d heard great things about Linfield,” he said. “I’ve
been able to fit it into my schedule. That’s the best
thing about it. It’s a great tool for people trying to do
two things at once.”
Barbara Drake, professor of English, remembers
teaching Lipkin during a creative nonfiction workshop.
“Here was this guy who could act and write and
had all kinds of theatrical experience,” Drake said. “He
had such a knack for making his stories come alive.
When he gave a reading in class it was a performance,
often a very funny one. He really knows how to use
voice, on and off the page.”
– Laura Davis
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Linfield Digest
Linfield Digest
Day’s photo featured on postal stamp
Wieman featured at
Nobel Symposium
Carl E. Wieman,
distinguished professor of physics
at the University
of Colorado at
Boulder, will
be featured at the
Oregon Nobel
Laureate
Symposium at
Carl E. Wieman
Linfield College.
Wieman will present “Bose-Einstein
Condensation: Quantum Weirdness at
the Lowest Temperature in the
Universe” Wednesday, March 30, at
7:30 p.m. in Melrose Auditorium. The
lecture is a general presentation, complete with computer animation and
suitable for middle school students and
above. The lecture will be free, but tickets will be required and will be available
by March 1 through College Relations,
026 Melrose Hall, 503-883-2217.
Wieman, along with Eric Cornell
of the National Institute of Standards
and Technology and Wolfgang Ketterle
of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, shared the 2001 Nobel
Prize in Physics. They were cited for
their landmark 1995 creation of the
world’s first Bose-Einstein condensate, a
new form of matter that occurs at just a
few hundred billionths of a degree
above absolute zero.
In November, Wieman was named
Professor of the Year among all
doctoral and research universities in the
United States by The Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching and the Council for
Advancement and Support of Education
for his unwavering dedication to undergraduate teaching. For more information on Wieman go to:
www.colorado.edu/news/nobel/
wiemancornell/.
Students take a “Safety Safari”
Rachel Hollingsworth ‘04, helps a child adjust her stethoscope to begin
examining her “patient.” Hollingsworth was one of several Linfield-Good
Samaritan nursing students who went on a “Safety Safari” at the Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry in October. Safety Safari is the Portland
Metro area’s largest health and safety festival for children and families.
Linfield students staffed the Safari ER, where they dressed in scrubs and
performed “surgery” on anatomical dolls. The mini play hospital is designed
to demystify the hospital experience and make children more comfortable
in medical settings.
Special concerts highlight spring semester
Two special concerts are planned this spring at Linfield College.
Music for strings and piano, featuring Jill Timmons, Linfield music professor, and four members of the Oregon Symphony, will be presented
Saturday, March 5, at 8 p.m. in Melrose Auditorium. The program will
feature the work of Ernest Bloch, Franz Schubert and Antonín Dvorák.
This is a benefit concert for Melrose Auditorium. Tickets are $35 and are
available through College Relations, 503-883-2217.
A second concert, a musical tribute to President Vivian A. Bull, will be
presented Saturday, May 14, at 2 p.m. in Melrose Auditorium. The concert
will feature members of the Linfield College music faculty as well as music
students. It is free and open to the public. A community reception honoring
Bull, who is retiring June 30, will follow. For more information, call College
Relations, 503-883-2217.
Presidential search moves forward
The search for a new Linfield College president has been progressing.
President Vivian A. Bull is retiring on June 30 after 13 years
of leading the college. For updates on the presidential search: on the
on the
www.linfield.edu/president_search/index.php
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A McMinnville photo taken by John Day, Linfield professor
emeritus of physics, is floating into mailboxes everywhere.
Day’s photo is one of 15 featured in “Cloudscapes,” a commemorative postage stamp series of cloud photographs recently
issued by the U.S. Postal Service. The picture, taken about 15 years
ago, captures fluffy clouds with flat bottoms, also known as
cumulus humilis, over a field and red barn north of McMinnville.
The historic Maulding barn has since been moved to Carlton, and
the field now holds mobile homes.
Day, whose specialty is cloud physics, formally retired from
Linfield in 1978 after 20 years of teaching, but his love of the
classroom continued. He taught a January Term class until recently,
retiring again at the age of 91.
“I love to teach,” he said. “I just continued and the years have
rolled by.”
Better known as “The Cloudman,” Day writes a weekly weather
column for the News-Register and is the author of eight books. His
most recent, The Book of Clouds, was published in 2003. He has
taken thousands of cloud photos over the years, some of which have
been used in classes at Linfield, in a sky chart used in schools across
the country, in books, on notecards and calendars, and on websites,
including www.cloudman.com and www.forspaciousskies.com.
His latest venture, due out by summer, is Cloud School, an
online course for cloud lovers all over the world.
“There will be no tests and no fees,” he said. “This will be my
gift to the universe.”
John Day, Linfield professor emeritus of physics, consulted with the
USPS in developing “Cloudscapes,” a postage stamp series of cloud
photographs, which includes one of Day’s photos.
Funding progresses on new music building
The completion of the Arts Quadrangle on the
Keck Campus may soon become a reality.
If funding is completed this spring, construction
on the new music facility will begin over the summer
months. The building is the last component of the
Arts Quadrangle, which is now home to the new
library and facilities for the art and theatre and communication arts departments.
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in
music at Linfield. Enrollment in music courses has
grown, participation in the college’s many performing
groups has increased, and performances attract
larger audiences. More than 430 students – about a
quarter of the students on the McMinnville Campus
– are active in music.
The new music building will provide large
rehearsal rooms for full band and choir, studios for
piano, instrumental or vocal rehearsal, and spaces for
music theory and composition. There will be individual practice rooms as well as a lobby for informal
meeting and mingling. A choir rehearsal room will
double as a small recital hall that will seat up to 100
for recitals, student performance seminars, chamber
music concerts and workshops by visiting artists.
The facility has been designed to accommodate
the addition of a new main concert hall as a later second phase. Until then, Melrose Auditorium will continue to accommodate larger events such as band,
orchestra and choir concerts.
“All of the music department – students, faculty
and staff – are excited about the new building,” said
Richard Bourassa, professor of music. “It will have
the appropriate facilities to provide Linfield students
with a quality experience in music.”
By early February, approximately three-quarters
of the $4.6 million project cost had been raised.
Retiring President Vivian A. Bull has requested that
any gifts made in her honor be designated to the
music building. Individuals wishing to make a donation should send it to College Relations at Linfield.
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Giving students an inside look
If Kristi (Vertrees)
Mackay ’91 had met
David Bennett ’63 when
she was still a student at
Linfield, she might be a
lawyer.
Maybe not, but
she could have gained
a mentor to show her
how to work hard, while
having fun on the job.
Mackay, program
coordinator for Linfield’s
Career Services office,
organizes Linfield’s annual Career Mentor Day
along with Lisa Garvey
’86, director of alumni
relations.
Mackay bubbles
with excitement – and
a little envy – when she
talks about the opportuScott Nelson '94 and Jesse Bopp '06 discuss differnities students now have
ent layouts and story selection on several sections
to connect with alumni
and issues of The Oregonian.
and establish networks
before they graduate.
Mackay knows just how tough that can be. As a
student, she set up her own informational interviews,
secured her own internships and established her own
network. Now, she helps students do that through
Career Mentor Day and January Term’s Career
Exploration class. Both pair students with alumni in a
variety of fields, giving them an inside look at a career
before they enter the workforce.
“This really helps students realize the importance of
connecting with alumni and using them to help make
decisions on their careers,” Mackay said. “I know how
tough it is to do it on your own. Linfield now has a
fantastic program available to them.”
Bennett is a believer, having participated in the
Career Exploration course and in Career Mentor Day
since its inception in 1993. He often takes two or three
students at a time.
“I like to be involved and responsible and I like to
make a difference,” he said. “If you look at how to change
the world, you do it one person at a time. Everything
works better when we help each other. I can’t think
Holly (Duckworth) Horning '98, left, and Shannon Malcolm '06
discuss different marketing pieces Horning uses at the Portland
Oregon Visitors Association.
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of one job that I’ve had that someone didn’t help me get.”
Bennett’s quick wit and wicked sense of humor
make him a popular mentor. His goal is to expose
students to the real world and real work.
“I don’t care if they don’t want to go to law school,” he
said. “I try to show them that work is really about relationships. Relationships are their greatest assets in both their
personal and professional lives. I try to give them an opportunity to see how (relationships) can work for them.”
Bennett, who is a partner in the Portland firm
Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP, strongly believes in the
motto, “Take your work seriously, but never, ever take
yourself seriously.” Students are often disarmed by his
humor on a personal level, coupled with his intensity
when focused on his job.
“He was very fun, but when he was working, he was
completely into his work,” said Michelle Hosie ’06, a
political science major from Coos Bay.
Neither she nor Bo Lockhart ’06, a psychology
major from Bend, had witnessed a lawyer in a day-today setting and were fascinated by the work. They
observed Bennett interacting with clients and learned
some of the legal aspects of real estate.
“He (Bennett) encouraged me to take some time off
between graduating from Linfield and pursuing graduate
school,” Lockhart said. “I wanted to explore some career
options and this was really a positive experience.”
Jesse Bopp ’06 knows that she has made the right
career choice in journalism after spending just one day
with Scott Nelson ’94 at The Oregonian. Nelson, the
paper’s assistant business editor, arranged for Bopp to
shadow a reporter and meet with a copy editor, an
editorial writer, a researcher and a photographer to
get a broader sense of what goes into producing
The Oregonian and what her career options might be.
“I really could not have asked for a better mentor.
Now I know I want to be a reporter,” said Bopp, a mass
communication and political science major from
Issaquah, Wash.
Nelson returned to his native Oregon in 2003 after
stints at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, the Tampa
Tribune and the Boston Globe. While at the Globe, he
spent seven weeks in Kuwait and Iraq as an embedded
journalist during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Nelson said Career Mentor Day can complement students’ courses and give them a sense of what
goes into a specific job. And the more information students have, the better career decisions they can make.
“The education at Linfield is great, but there’s nothing like experience in the real world to give you a good
idea of the choices you have,” Nelson said. “In this field,
as in many others, real-world experience matters a lot.
The more information students have, the better decisions they can make. Being able to spend a day in a place
like this and learn what it takes to get here is pure gold.”
Alyssa Norman ’06 got a glimpse into the corporate
culture at Nike and was surprised to learn that the corporate environment can be fun, casual and challenging.
Norman spent the day with Susie Kuhn ’97, senior merchandise manager at Nike. She sat in on a team meeting
where current projects and deadlines were discussed and
looked at sample garments in the final design stage.
“I had no idea how much goes into making clothes,
from choosing the fabric to selecting the style of buttons,”
said Norman, a business and physical education major
from Denver, Colo. “It was really great to be with someone who had attended Linfield and to see how successful
she has become. The experience helped me understand
how everything in class translates into the real world.”
Kuhn, who spent three years working as a buyer for
Target Corp. in Minneapolis, Minn., returned to
Oregon about a year ago. As a student, she found Career
Mentor Day valuable and she wanted to share her experience and insight.
“I tried to show her how many little details you have
to manage at one time,” Kuhn said. “It was fun to explain
things about my job. It gives you a second to step back
and reflect on where you are in your own career.”
David Bennett '63, left, reviews legal documents with Bo Lockhart and
Michelle Hosie, both '06.
As convention services account manager at the
Portland Oregon Visitors Association, Holly
(Duckworth) Horning ’98 knows the value of establishing strong networks. She works with regional and
national meeting planners, helping find products and
services they need for events in Portland.
Shannon Malcolm ’06, a business major with a marketing and management concentration from Pendleton,
is interested in the workings of nonprofit organizations
and event planning and had a firsthand view of the marketing tools and techniques Horning uses.
“It was good to be in a work environment and this
has given me an idea of one area in which I might eventually want to work,” she said.
Horning attributes her success to those who mentored her and shared some of their own experiences,
both successes and mistakes.
“I tried to show Shannon the importance of networking and how to build her own network,” Horning
said. “Career Mentor Day is really easy and the students
learn a lot. With Oregon’s job market being what it is,
it’s nice for them to get in touch with someone who is
working in a career and find out how they got there.”
–Mardi Mileham
Susie Kuhn '97, left, and Alyssa Norman '06 in front of one of
Nike's displays featuring some of the company’s historic designs.
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The world is their classroom
When students leave Linfield to study
abroad, the walls disappear and the world
becomes their classroom. And when they return
from a month, a semester, a year abroad, they
have grown and are transformed. Their lives
will forever be colored by the experience.
By Mardi Mileham
The Colosseum in Rome
Students visit the Roman baths in Bath, England
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Linfield has long taken pride in the fact that more than 50 percent of its
graduates study abroad at some time during their educational career.
But if Peter Richardson had his way, it would be 100 percent.
He doesn't care if it's in the coffee bean plantations of Costa Rica, the
Buddhist temples of Japan, Korea or China, or the art galleries in any
one of a number of European nations. Students need to engage in a culture
different from their own.
“Studying abroad takes them out of their natural
environment,” said Richardson, a professor of German.
“These students have every advantage – homes, families,
sports teams, church groups or whatever it is that has
defined them. When they go abroad, they don’t have
those things anymore and they have to ask themselves
very specific questions about what their values are,
about who they are. They face questions they can no
longer avoid. It helps them define who they are and
Peter Richardson
what they really think. And once their eyes are open to
the world, they will never again be closed.”
Linfield’s study abroad program began nearly 30 years ago, when the
college began exchanging students with Kanto Gakuin University in
Yokohama, Japan. Now opportunities for international study are offered
through three options: semester programs at universities in 11 countries in
Europe, Asia and Central and South America; academic year abroad for
language majors; and January Term, with its popular four-week intensive
courses, led by Linfield faculty at some 15 international locations annually.
Ecuador is the latest addition to the growing list of study abroad sites
offered through Linfield. The new program, geared specifically for science
and environmental studies majors, will be launched this fall, and will include
an opportunity for field work on the Galapagos Islands or at Tiputini, a rain
forest reserve in the Amazon Basin.
“The biodiversity of Tiputini exceeds that of the Galapagos,” said
Marvin Henberg, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty.
“With only 1,500 acres, Tiputini is home to more than 500 different bird
species. Contrast this number with a species count of 650 for all birds in all
of North America, and you have some idea of the scale of opportunity for
Linfield students in biology and environmental studies.”
Linfield’s international focus has grown in other
ways, said Shaik Ismail, director of International
Programs. The college now offers a Japanese major and
an Asian Studies minor. And agreements with two other
schools in Japan have expanded opportunities for students.
Chinese courses are offered and scholars from Chinese
universities regularly spend a year teaching at Linfield.
Nursing students also have the opportunity to study
health care practices through courses offered during
Shaik Ismail
January Term in Mexico, China, Southeast Asia and Ghana.
Study abroad doesn’t just mean sitting in class halfway around the world.
Or just visiting Paris, Madrid, Rome or London. It can also mean working
side-by-side with people in their homes and villages, helping to improve
their lives and learning about their lifestyles and cultures.
Ismail is trying to enhance the service learning component of the study
abroad experience to provide students with a combination of academics and
community service.
Ismail is guiding Linfield's program in an era of growth and change. His
goal is to build upon an already strong study abroad program and expand it
across the curriculum, embracing students in all majors from the arts to the
sciences, and offering students more interaction with local residents.
Whenever possible, Ismail wants the students immersed in the local
community, where they will sharpen their language skills as well as engage
in the lives of local people.
“Participation in a service project has an impact and it can be a lifetransforming experience,” he said. “Students need to give something back to
society and one way to do that is to get involved when you study abroad.
That’s why we build community service projects into the curriculum.”
That’s already happening in Costa Rica and Mexico, where students
worked on a Habitat for Humanity project and in an orphanage (see related
stories).
Tower Bridge in London
Kim McGough ‘05 learns traditional basket weaving with
palm fronds during a field trip to San Miguel Tequixtepec,
Mexico.
Melissa Schmeer ‘04 holding
up Stonehenge.
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Experiential Learning
Students in the stairwell of the Melk Monastery in Melk, Austria.
Richardson agrees that the
service approach provides an
opportunity for students to see the
practical application of their language skills.
“Too often language is taught
in a vacuum,” he said. “What we all
want to do is make the world a
classroom and the walls disappear.
And it needs to be a credible transition from what goes on in class to
what goes on when students are
involved in using their language out
in the world where it's spoken naturally.”
Ismail cited January Term
courses in Mexico and Ghana,
where students interact with local
residents. Vivian Tong, professor of
nursing, is developing a course for
India next January, which could be
a preamble to a study abroad program there. Such a program could
offer students an in-depth look at
alternative medicine, how healing is
practiced, and the relationship
between healing and religion.
January Term also provides an
opportunity for professors from dif-
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ferent departments to collaborate
on a class, such as combining history and political science for a class in
Russia or religion and anthropology for a course in Ireland.
“If you have two faculty, it’s
as if you have binocular vision,”
Richardson said. “The world is not
divided into sociology and chemistry and literature. With two professors, you see depth and contour
and you see many more manifestations of the culture than you would
if you were with just one person, no
matter how good that person is.”
Another important part of
International Programs at Linfield is
the international students who
study here. This year 66 students
and scholars from 21 different
countries are sharing their culture
and lifestyles with students and staff
as well as community members.
But they also take with them a better understanding of U.S. culture.
“These are people who return
home to positions of leadership and
responsibility,” Richardson said. “If a
president has a cabinet made up of
people who have studied in the
U.S. and who have friends here and
who are professionally and intellectually engaged with important parts
of American culture, the better our
relationship is going to be with that
government.”
One key component of the
study abroad program is a re-entry
program for students who return
from a semester or year abroad.
They have a much harder time reentering this culture than entering
the culture they studied or lived in,
Richardson said.
They see their country in a different way. They are more engaged
in the debate about important
political and social issues. The questions they ask themselves are fundamentally different from the ones
that were important to them
before, Richardson said.
“They have added a layer of
understanding and insight into the
people they are becoming,” he
added. “They have grown into their
adult selves in a fundamentally different way from what would have
happened if they had stayed here.
All of a sudden issues that were not
important to them before are terribly important now. ”
Posing at the Ming Tombs in Beijing, China.
Sharing his
zest for Britain
Even after taking seven January Term classes to
England, Ken Ericksen hasn’t lost his zest for all things
British nor his joy in sharing that passion with Linfield
students.
Ericksen, professor of English, beams with excitement when discussing January Term and his most recent
course, Samuel Johnson and 18th Century London. He’s
been taking classes to England periodically since 1989,
and remains stimulated and excited by the experience.
“January Term is experiential learning at its best,” said
Ericksen, who has taught at Linfield since 1965 and who
specializes in 18th century British literature, Shakespeare
and drama. “The travel courses get the students emotionally involved with the subject matter, because they are
actually able to go to the places where Samuel Johnson
lived.You can see movies but that's not the same thing as
actually going into the house where he lived, seeing the
table he wrote at or sitting in the chair he sat in.”
One of the big differences between a January Term
travel course and a regular academic class is the different
degree in depth of reading that is possible, Ericksen noted.
“You can’t possibly require them to do the amount of
reading you can in a course here on campus,” he said.“And
you can’t require them to do research in the same way.”
But the experiential riches of field trips clearly
make up for any paucity of reading. The students spend
mornings in class reading and discussing Johnson’s essays
and poetry, as well as working on their travel journal.
Johnson is brought to life in afternoon field trips to his
home, neighborhood and church, plus cathedrals and
museums throughout London and in Stratford and
Litchfield.
“The field trips are just as important as reading
material for class because they immerse the students into
Johnson’s world and broaden their perspectives,”
Ericksen said.
But he also requires essays written during the course
of their travels. For example, during a visit to the 18th
century floor in the National Portrait Gallery, students
must select one of the portraits and write an essay examining their feelings and responses to the painting.
“This is a much different type of research than they
are capable of doing in McMinnville,” Ericksen said.
“The students become more cosmopolitan, not just geographically, but also in time, because they are learning
Ken Ericksen, bottom, right, with his 2004 January Term class at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese,
the oldest pub in London, where Samuel Johnson held meetings of “the Club.” The pub is
located about a block from Johnson's house.
about the 18th century.That is one of the most important
parts of studying literature, to discover the ways in which
we are similar and different from our ancestors.”
Although English is the native tongue of both
England and the United States, the language can vary as
much as the culture and the customs. Many of the students who take Ericksen’s class are traveling abroad for
the first time and are transformed before his eyes, growing in confidence and their ability to explore new places.
“The ability to go into a strange environment and
realize they can survive there is an important part of
their education,” he added. “This is a good trip for students who haven’t traveled before. It’s a very safe place
to get your feet wet in foreign travel because you have
your professor with you, looking out for you.”
It’s not unusual for one or two students to become
so enamored of England that they decide to apply to the
semester abroad program.
“A semester is so much more intensive and personal,” Ericksen said. “It’s a confidence builder because they
are basically on their own.”
Yet for Ericksen, January Term blends the best of
both worlds as it whets the students’ appetites. He gets
to share a city he loves, and he gets to know the students
as they get to know him on a much different level.
“It’s exciting walking around London because I
constantly see things I recognize from literature,” he
said. “I feel as much at home in London as anywhere.
For me, it’s the best of all possible worlds because I can
be on my own to satisfy my contemplative needs or
with the students satisfying my social needs. And it’s fun
being with them.”
– Mardi Mileham
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Service Learning
Helping build communities
Kirsten Taylor ‘06, left, and Meredith Berthot ‘06 were two of 17 Linfield students who
helped construct a Habitat for Humanity house in San Ramon, Costa Rica, as part of
their semester abroad experience.
How long does it take to build a future? Some
Linfield College students learned it could happen in just
three days.
Working tirelessly alongside a Nicaraguan named
Oscar, they transformed a bare concrete foundation into
the house of Oscar’s dreams.
The 17 Linfield students spent a weekend in
September building houses for Habitat for Humanity in
San Ramón, Costa Rica, as part of the Linfield semester
abroad program. Based at the Universidad de Costa Rica
in San José, the program provides opportunities to learn
about the country’s culture, history and traditions through
class work, field trips and community service projects.
“When one of the Habitat coordinators asked
whether anyone had anything to say about what had
been accomplished in the three days, Oscar could not
even get a word out, because his eyes had welled up
with so many tears,” said Lisa Anderson ‘06 of Salem.
“The tiny Habitat houses that these people receive are
more than most of them could have ever dreamed of.”
The weekend trip gave the Linfield students the
chance to roll up their sleeves and work side-by-side
with locals, an important element in Linfield studyabroad experiences.
“We believe in service learning and volunteer
work,” said Mayra Herra, director of the Linfield semester program in Costa Rica. “In the past, students have
developed projects in small groups or individually, but
this year we decided to work as a whole team, making
the volunteer work more effective.”
Prior to the weekend, students spent two weeks
learning construction vocabulary, such as carretilla
(wheelbarrow) and pala (shovel), and preparing for
their tasks in San Ramón, a semi-rural town with a
population of over 33,000.
Rebekah Jordan ‘07 of Tigard described it as a
community “nestled between rolling green hills and
sprawling farmlands, where the air is clean and fresh and
there are no stoplights on the wide roads.”
The work began as soon as the students entered San
Ramón. A tour of other Habitat houses gave them their
first chance to interact with the local community.
“It was special to see all of the children and pets
happily running around (the Habitat houses),” said
Kirsten Taylor ‘06 of Seattle. “I knew that their lives had
been touched by volunteers like us.”
The students assembled rebar, laid concrete blocks,
shoveled rocks and made cement and mortar in a
unique sifting process. They worked alongside the
homeowners, who applied their own sweat equity.
The days were tough with extreme weather conditions, ranging from drenching rain to scorching sun and
high humidity. But as the weekend progressed, students
began to notice changes in themselves and the group.
“The work was hard and demanding, but we were
always sad to see a day of work come to an end,” said Elise
Booth ‘05 of Genesee, Idaho. “We took pride in our work
and what we accomplished in our days on the job.”
Booth and her classmates were deeply moved by the
experience. She said the opportunity to form personal
bonds with the Costa Ricans was life changing.
“I came away with a satisfaction at having been a
part of something bigger and more important than my
own little world, “ Jordan said. “It felt so right to expend
energy on something that would bring me no visible
benefit, but the profit I gained was in the hope-filled
eyes of the owner of the house as we worked side-byside and he watched his future come together.”
Every year a new group of Linfield students will
venture to Costa Rica in late summer. They will also
perform acts of community service, maybe similar,
maybe different. Although the names, faces and scenes
will change, Oscar and his neighbors will never forget
the hard work of those 17 students. Nor will the
Linfield students forget the experiences and lessons of
those three days.
As Jordan put it, “What we did feels better than any
day spent on a beach.”
– Laura Graham ’07
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Developing cross-cultural relationships
Linfield College students left more than a newly
constructed softball field and a freshly painted mural in
Mexico last spring.
They also left dozens of new friends and a bit of
themselves.
The 11 students, who studied in Oaxaca for the
semester, spent three weeks of service learning at
Pimpollo orphanage, in the southernmost part of
Mexico. There they drew upon their own skills and
interests to help disadvantaged children. They painted a
mural, built a softball field, and taught swimming lessons, English classes and kitchen hygiene.
The three-week experience went beyond examining cross-cultural issues and strengthening Spanish language skills, according to Tom Love, Linfield professor of
anthropology, who directed the program.
“It was really about developing relationships,” he
said. “These types of experiences build character and
develop an attitude of citizenship, mutual respect, critical self-reflection and responsibility.”
Mary Doyle ’06, a studio art and political science
major, painted a mural based on more than 70 drawings
created by the children. The result was a sign for the
orphanage incorporating flowers and a beach scene,
with the kids’ blue hand prints creating ocean waves.
“Painting is a creative outlet that encourages kids to
be themselves as opposed to their economic circumstances,” said Doyle.
At the orphanage, Linfield students
came face-to-face with issues of poverty,
domestic violence, child abuse and
retardation. The children’s need for
attention was palpable, Love said.
“You’re instantly mobbed by
kids who come up and hug you,”
he added. “And they care for each
Linfield students, from left, Mary Doyle ‘06, Veronica Walker ‘05 and Vanessa Patterson
‘06, help children add handprints to a mural at the Pimpollo orphanage.
other.You offer one a piece of candy and he makes sure
every kid has a piece of it. It’s very humbling and it
makes you deeply question what’s important.”
Erica Crossman ’05, Kim McGough ’05 and Emily
Pierce ’05 constructed a softball field for the children.
Crossman still remembers the smiles on the kids’ faces
when she and the other Linfield students arrived each day.
“As soon as the kids saw us, they would run to help
us,” said Crossman, a sociology major. “It was incredibly
humbling to see how little they had and hear their stories of what they’d been through.”
Rachyl Stupor ’06, was particularly drawn to
Auterilli, a 17-year-old who wanted to learn English
and attend college.
“That was surprising to me to find a girl living out
in the middle of nowhere that had the same aspirations
I do,” Stupor said.
More than anything, the experience showed Stupor
how privileged she is as a United States citizen.
She’s now more aware of how people use
their resources and how it affects others
around the world.
“I’ve never had to endure
hardship,” she said. “Some of the
kids had very difficult lives before
they came to the orphanage. It was
hard to face that, but it was an
incredible experience.”
– Laura Davis
Emily Pierce ‘05 playing with a child.
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A change of focus
Whether it’s on the football
field or on a hospital floor, Peter
Gerber ‘05 likes being in the thick
of things.
Don’t be fooled by his size.
Although he is a former offensive
lineman for the Wildcats football
team, Gerber is also soft-spoken,
with a gentle touch. His life took a
Peter Gerber ‘05
dramatic turn in January 2003
when he participated in a January Term course,
Traditional and Non-Traditional Healing Practices in
Mexico.
Gerber was simply looking for a chance to travel
internationally and to experience another culture. The
course seemed a perfect match with his exercise science
major. But while becoming enamored of the Mexican
culture and history, he also found himself drawn to
nursing. After his return he continued to meet with
Portland Campus faculty. Soon, instead of pursuing
graduate work in physical therapy he turned his
attention to nursing school.
“I kept weighing my options between nursing and
physical therapy and I just saw a lot more opportunity
in nursing,” Gerber said. “I have always wanted a profession where I could actually help people. Nursing has
that intense patient interaction that I really enjoy. I
compare it to being on the offensive line. You’re right
there in front and in the action.You don’t necessarily get
the credit, but you have the satisfaction of knowing that
you helped a person on that particular day.”
Diane Welch, associate professor of nursing, said
Gerber has demonstrated incredible sensitivity to
what’s going on around him and really understands
the heart of nursing.
“Peter is able to see how nurses are engaged
with people in their lives,” she said. “Peter will
be a great nurse because he has an amazing
work ethic. He does whatever it takes to
get the job done and he doesn’t
want to just get it done, he
wants it done really well. He’s
a great team player. Nursing
has a lot of team activities
and he puts the work of the
group above himself.”
A microcosm of the world
Gerber, who was raised in Portland, hopes to eventually return to Mexico or travel to Costa Rica. He
found the Mexican culture rich and vast, as well as
calming and very familiar.
“This was really a life-changing experience, culturally and professionally,” Gerber said. “It rekindled
something in me to be more open-minded. There was
a different mentality, different than in the U.S. where
everyone tries to amass as much money and property
as possible. The point (in Mexico) isn’t to amass so
much stuff, it’s about sharing.”
He would like to learn more about the traditional
methods of healing and learn Spanish.
“The Latino population is increasing throughout
the country and it’s inevitable that you will work with
Spanish-speaking patients,” he said. “I think being open
to their culture and knowing more about it would help
when treating them.”
When Gerber graduates in December, he’ll have a
double major in exercise science and nursing. Linfield
has been the perfect spot for him, on the football field
and in the classroom.
“In football, the coaches treated you like a real
person and listened to your ideas,” Gerber said. “That’s
indicative of Linfield as a whole. People work really hard
and listen to their students. Linfield is a nurturing kind
of place. Faculty here aren’t concerned about putting
out nurses just for numbers. They want you to learn and
grasp what nursing is all about.”
– Mardi Mileham
Peter Gerber ‘05 switched his major to nursing after participating in a January Term
course in Mexico. Here he helps Gloria Natsch at a diabetes support group that also
served as a clinical site for one of his nursing courses.
They came from two very
different countries and cultures thousands of miles apart.
But their common denominator is Linfield College.
Chantal Rozairo ‘03 of Sri
Lanka and Catherine Fegan
of Northern Ireland have
never met, but they have a
common bond: they both
studied at Linfield. Rozairo
spent four years at Linfield,
and Fegan came on a oneChantal Rozairo ‘03
year exchange. But their
experiences have some remarkable parallels.
Rozairo had dreamed of studying in the United
States and enrolled at Linfield after visiting the college
in 1999 while on tour as a World Vision Youth
Ambassador. She knew that the experience would
change her perceptions and broaden her horizons, but
she had no idea how much.
“My core values haven’t changed,” she said, “but my
view of the world and the people in it has certainly
changed. The way I approach a situation is no longer so
narrow-minded and one-sided.”
Studying abroad helped her learn her potential and
what she is capable of achieving.
“When you take yourself out of your comfort zone
and away from all those you depend on, and you have to
stand on your own and succeed, you really learn how
much you are capable of and you learn your weaknesses
and, most importantly, your strengths,” Rozairo said.
Both women were amazed at the accessibility and
availability of faculty at Linfield.
“There is virtually no interaction between the lecturer and the students (in Northern Ireland),” Fegan
said. “I found the American system much more personal and greatly appreciated the informal approach
taken by the professors.”
Rozairo enjoyed working on projects, papers and
exams that gave a more in-depth understanding of a
subject. “The variety of learning methods used in class
provided me with a well-rounded understanding of the
subject,” she said.
Fegan found Linfield to be a microcosm of the world.
“Not only was I in day-to-day contact with
Americans, I met students from India, Sweden, Norway,
Catherine Fegan, left, creates a jack-o-lantern along with Chinh Hoang ‘07
from Vietnam and Ina Cronstadt from Sweden, who also spent last year
studying at Linfield.
Japan, England and many other parts of the globe,” she
said. “I have learned the importance of learning from
others up close, and in turn teaching them something
about myself and where I come from.”
Fegan is now completing the final year of a law
degree at Queens University in Belfast. She plans to
pursue graduate work in humanitarian law and peacekeeping, preferably in Central Europe and eventually at
the United Nations.
Despite her three years at a university in Ireland, she
believes her true college experience was her year at
Linfield.
“I learned the value of true friendship and the
importance of building and maintaining relationships,”
she said. “I returned home a more motivated, ambitious
student with a much clearer idea about what I wanted
to do after college.”
After graduating with a degree in communication,
Rozairo spent a year as a resident director at Fort Lewis
College in Colorado and is currently working on her
master’s in mass communication at the University of
Florida. She hopes to work in the non-profit sector, at
World Vision or UNICEF.
One of the most valuable lessons of her years at
Linfield was learning to embrace diversity.
“The many experiences I had with students showed
me how tolerating diversity is no longer enough,” she
said. “We must embrace our differences and in doing so
we learn greatly from each other. The more people are
aware of what’s going on in the world and have a broader education, they don’t tend to jump to quick assumptions. Ignorance makes us fear the wrong people.”
– Mardi Mileham
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Bridging Cultures
Lives enriched by living abroad
Two Linfield alumni found a new way of looking at
life after living and working in Japan for a year.
It’s been nearly a decade since their experience, but
Dave and Anastacia (Sims) Dillon, both ‘89, agree their
lives have been enriched by the priceless connections
they made while serving as assistant English teachers at
high schools in Hitachi-Ota, Japan, through the Japan
Exchange Teaching program in 1995.
“There’s a great connection between living abroad
and the value of life-long learning that Linfield works so
diligently to instill in its students,” said Dave, a Linfield
College trustee and executive vice president of the
Oregon Farm Bureau.
Even before their marriage in 1990, Dave and
Anastacia discussed the importance of living abroad.
So they jumped at the opportunity with JET. Dave
resigned from his position as press and community liaison for former U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood and Anastacia
took a leave of absence from her post as assistant director of financial aid at Linfield.
Although Dave said he expected to learn new
things, make new friends and have new experiences in
Japan, he did not anticipate the change of perspective
that had the greatest impact on him.
“Being in another culture and away from familiar
things at home gave me a chance to see the U.S.
through a different set of eyes,” he said. “When
things become familiar, there’s a tendency
to stop examining them. Being plucked
out of that familiar setting was a chance
to see things new again.”
As a Linfield student, Anastacia took four years of
Japanese and studied abroad in Japan twice. Dave had little Japanese language training prior to their departure,
but carefully observed the cues around him in Japan.
“Paying attention to how things are done is as
important as vocabulary,” he said. “Often, what is not
said, but what is intimated or gestured, is more important than the actual words that are said.”
Anastacia often draws upon skills she acquired in
Japan in her current job as associate director of student
financial services at Lewis and Clark College, where she
occasionally works with students preparing to study
abroad and international students studying in Portland.
“I can relate to the confusion international students
sometimes experience,” she said. “They can come to me
for help.”
The Dillons returned to Japan in 2003 with their
son, Nathan, 7, and visited Tsutomu (Ben) Kusama
Yamaguchi, a Kanto Gakuin University student whom
they hosted at Linfield in 1993. Ben and his wife,
Megumi, have a three-year-old daughter, whom they
refer to as Nathan’s Japanese sister. Both Dave and
Anastacia agree travel will remain a priority for their
family.
“We’re happily infected with the travel bug,”
Anastacia said. “Once you’ve done something that’s outside your regular comfort zone, it makes other barriers
look smaller.”
– Laura Davis
Dave and Anastacia (Sims) Dillon, both '89, third and fourth
from the left, and their son Nathan, front row, left, visited
friends in Kamakura, Japan, in 2003. Tsutomu (Ben) Kusama
Yamaguchi, second from left, was a Kanto Gakuin University
student whom they hosted at Linfield in 1993.
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The personal face of Islam
Saadiah Khawar Khan Chishti
helped put a personal face on Islam
this fall.
Chishti, a visiting Islamic scholar
from Pakistan, captivated Linfield
community members when she
served as a scholar-in-residence
through the Under standing
Contemporary Islam (UCI) program, jointly sponsored by the
American University of Beirut in
Lebanon and the Council for
International Exchange of Scholars
in Washington, D.C. She took part
in classes and spoke on a variety of
topics, both at Linfield and in the
McMinnville community.
Clothed in flowing, traditional
shalwar-kameez-dupattah/chadar
suits, Chishti spoke earnestly and
often with students, faculty and
community members, dispelling
stereotypes about Islam. Her softspoken demeanor enhanced her
ability to relate ties between Islam
and Christianity and to explain her
religion in a way that sparked interest
and dialogue in the community. She
emphasized that Islam, an Abrahamic
tradition, believes in dialogue and
co-existence.
“We may practice our own
religions as a family of God, but live
in peace, harmony and good will,”
she said.
Linfield students welcomed the
exposure, according to Linda Olds,
professor of psychology. After Olds’
gender and spirituality class, in
which Chishti focused on female
spirituality and Rabia, an Islamic
female saint, students lingered to
continue the discussion.
“It is rare in modern culture to
be in the presence of someone who
so richly embodies and articulates
with passion and clarity the spiritual path in any tradition,” Olds said.
Several students, including
Deeksha Sivakumar ‘07, were inspired
to choose research themes relating
to women in Islam.
“She was very engaging
because she truly believed what she
spoke about Islam,” said Sivakumar,
an international student originally
from India, whose parents now
reside in the United Arab Emirates.
“My personal discussions and meetings with her were invaluable.”
Lindsey Kish ‘05, a comparative
religious studies and psychology
major, was fascinated by the concept
of five-times-daily prayer, which
Chishti likened to a spiritual roll
call for Muslims. Kish said she
believes Islam is radicalized and
misunderstood in America.
“She was able to show Islam to
be not only a valid and versatile
tradition, but also one that, in its
principles, if not always in its
practice, holds women in the highest esteem,” Kish said.
For Chishti, each discussion,
whether at Linfield or in the community, was inspiring and gratifying
in many ways.
“I think our conversations have
stirred imaginations and thinking
and brought ideas (community
members) haven’t thought of,” she
said. “I’m going home very satisfied
that the objective of bringing Islam
and Christianity together has been
achieved.”
Chishti is a prominent scholar
in the international community. She
is a project director for the Higher
Education Commission of the
government of Pakistan, president
of the Commonwealth Human
Ecology Council and a member of
the Executive Board of the Islamic
Philosophical Association. She has
served as a fellow at Harvard and
Saadiah Khawar Khan Chishti, visiting Islamic scholar from
Pakistan, spent much of her semester at Linfield engaged in
conversations with students. She is pictured here with Emily
Clouse '06, left, and Keenan Havens '08.
Oxford universities, and has
been a visiting professor at
Villanova University. Chishti holds
degrees from Cornell University,
Government College in Lahore and
the American University of Beirut.
Shaik Ismail, director of
International Programs at Linfield,
said Chishti provided a forum for
dialogue as she discussed the many
facets of Islam as a faith and as a
political phenomenon.
“At a time when the world is
mired in fear, violence, distrust and
misconceptions, we are fortunate to
have this opportunity to engage in
conversation about faces and
cultures that are different from
ours,” Ismail said. “Dr. Chishti gave
us a glimpse of some of the misconceptions of Islam and allowed our
community to ask questions, to
explore and to comprehend.”
– Laura Davis
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Record-setting quarterback Brett Elliott ‘06 tries
to get off a pass before being tackled by the
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor defense.
A perfect season
Riley Jenkins ‘05, the game’s Most
Outstanding Player, dives for a touchdown
in front of Brad McKechnie ‘06 (29) and
George Carter ‘05 (2).
It was the perfect end to a perfect season.
In a heart-stopping finish on a cold, clear December day
in Salem,Va., the Linfield College Wildcats left no doubt about
who deserved the NCAA Division III football title. With less
than six minutes left on the clock, Linfield forced a turnover
by the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Riley Jenkins ’05,
named the game’s outstanding player, made a one-handed grab
of a pass from record-setting quarterback Brett Elliott ’06 to
seal the Wildcat victory, 28-21. UMHB put a crimp in the
Wildcats’ nation-leading offense, but the Linfield defense
stepped up its attack to secure the college’s first NCAA
Division III football title. This is Linfield’s first championship
since the three NAIA titles in 1982, 1984 and 1986.
The Wildcats ended the season with a perfect 13-0
record, as well as a slew of awards for the players and coaches
and a whole new set of records. Jay Locey, in his ninth year as
head coach, was named NCAA Division III coach of the year,
earning him a slot as an assistant coach at the Hula Bowl
played Jan. 22 on Maui, Hawaii.
In receiving the award, Locey recognized his players,
coaches and college administration.
“This is a championship for the entire Linfield family, of
which we are very proud to be a part,” he said. “The 2004
team had commitment to each other and an unbelievable
work ethic and attitude. Our guys have a great passion for the
Left, Garrett Wales ‘06 (48) and Phil Rombach ‘06 celebrate the victory.
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Clockwise from top left, Josh Ort (9) and Chris Boock (31) signal the fourth quarter; President Vivian A. Bull
with some of the Wildcat seniors after the game, from left,Ty Smith, George Carter, Thomas Ford, Eric Hillison,
O.J. Gulley and Riley Jenkins; Scott Carnahan ‘73, athletic director, and head Coach Jay Locey celebrate the
Wildcats’ victory.
game and a great passion for the team. They play the game
because they love it and they love each other. They are great
human beings and really fun to be around.”
Team members displayed what true champions they are
when they showed their compassion, caring and class during a
visit to the pediatric floor at Community Hospital in
Roanoke,Va. They read the children stories, played with them
and went out of their way to visit those youngsters too sick to
come to the playroom or those too shy to go to them.
Emily Painter, a nurse at the hospital, later wrote to
Locey and Scott Carnahan ‘73, athletic director.
“I watched your players come to our floor
and I saw something that I have rarely seen from
college men – compassion and concern,” she
wrote. “I was truly touched to watch these
men interact with our kids. The fact that
your men would get on the floor and play
house, basketball and build things and just
take the time to spread some love and joy
is a victory in itself. I hope that you are
extremely proud and fond of this team,
because they made a lasting impression on me
and our patients. So not only are you national
champions on the football field, but you are truly
champions in life. Never let that spirit die.”
Ty Smith ‘05 celebrates with a championship t-shirt.
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Alumni News
Alumni Shorts
Family-style excursions
No time for a two-week
European vacation? Shorter outings
closer to home and fun for the
entire family will soon be added.
Watch the website for updates.
This championship affirms Linfield’s commitment to excellence, said Linfield President Vivian A. Bull.
“I am so proud of our student-athletes,” she said. “Everywhere
we went in Virginia, people commented on what a terrific group of
players and coaches we had representing Linfield, Oregon and the
Northwest Conference. Our players and coaches continue to receive
many accolades, but it’s significant to note that this group of young
people talk not about individual awards, but about the team.”
The Wildcats were not without their own boisterous cheering section during the championship game in Salem. A charter
flew 141 family members, alumni and staff, including President
Bull, to the game and back in less than 48 hours. Many others
from different parts of the country also attended, giving the
Wildcats a loyal and loud cheering section. Fans pitched in to
help pay the costs to send the Linfield cheerleaders on the trip.
Signs such as “ESPN – Exceptional Sons Prevail Nationally,”
“Hit ‘Em Hard Linfield Linebackers” and “23 Zahn,” were sprinkled throughout the crowd. A bit of history was also on display. A
long banner reading “We’re from Linfield, Couldn’t be Prouder,”
made by Trisha Johnson Heaukulani ‘83 has been at every championship game that Linfield has won.
The Ecuadorian Amazon,
June 4-19, led by Tom Love, professor of anthropology
Splendors of Italy, June 1828, led by Ken Ericksen, professor
of English
Valley of the French Kings
and the City of Lights, July 919, led by Sylvain Frémaux
Alumni Shakespeare Trip,
July 14-17, also led by Ericksen
Rafting on the McKenzie
River, July 23-24, led by Greg
Caster ‘82 and Lisa Garvey ‘86
Volunteer opportunities
Linfield offers a number of
ways to be involved. Check out the
website to learn about the Alumni
Ambassador program, the Alumni
Association Executive Board, the
Career Mentor program, and
reunions and events in your area.
– Mardi Mileham
Clockwise from top left, Dwight Donaldson ‘05, left, and Thomas Ford ‘05;
Coach Jay Locey talks with Brandon Hazenberg ‘06 (3); Brett Elliott ‘06,
left, and Mordechai Kotler ‘05 celebrate the victory; signs throughout the
stadium display support for the Wildcats from the loyal fans around the
country who traveled to Salem, Va., for the game.
Championship
DVD available
A DVD highlighting the
Linfield Wildcats’ run to
the championship is
available for $22 through
the Linfield College
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Pencil us in
March 2: Alumni gathering,
Los Angeles, Calif., hosted by Bob
and Margaret (Zimmerman)
Freeman ‘51
March 3: Alumni luncheon,
San Diego, Calif., coordinated by
Mike Stelman ‘63
March 4: Alumni luncheon,
Palm Desert Resort Country
Club, Palm Springs, Calif., hosted
by Denis Walker, trustee
April 21: Alumni gathering,
Boise, Idaho, hosted by Erik and
Jennifer (Cutts) McLaughlin ‘96
and ‘95 at Taste wine bar
Four individuals were honored with special awards during Linfield’s Homecoming celebration Oct. 16,
from left; Matt Fishback ‘83 received the Alumni Service Award for his outstanding contributions to
Linfield; Lorie Fridell ‘80, director of research at the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, D.C.,
was named Alumna of the Year for her outstanding professional contributions; Ezra Koch received
the Walker Award for his long and significant service to the college; and Dave Haugeberg received the
Community Award for his contributions to and support of Linfield.
April 22: Alumni luncheon,
Twin Falls, Idaho, hosted by Mike
and Janet (Marshall) McBride ‘72
and ‘73
May 3: 50 Year Club luncheon,
Multnomah Athletic Club, Portland
May 4: Salute to Teachers,
McMinnville Campus
May 7: Nursing Alumni Day,
Portland
May 14: Choral Concert,
tribute to Dr. Bull, 2 p.m., Melrose
Auditorium, followed by a reception at 3:15 p.m. for Dr. Bull on
the Keck Campus
May 24: Portland farewell
reception for Dr. Bull, sponsored
by the President’s Club
Alumni information:
503-883-2492
alumni@linfield.edu or
Homecoming
Alumni are encouraged to attend
Homecoming 2005 activities Oct. 2022. Check the website for updates on
schedules and events.
Plans for special reunions are
under way now for the classes of 1945,
1950, 1955, 1965 and 1980, and all
study abroad groups. Activities are also
being planned for younger alumni.
Gerry and Jackie (Schaake) Painter
‘50 and ‘54 will host a social for the
class of 1950 at their home on Oct. 22.
The class of 1955 will celebrate its
50th anniversary. Reunion committee
members include Marilyn (Henderson)
Zetterberg, Barbara (Davis) Gant, Ken
Williams, Dick Getchell, Marcia
(Seeber) Reeder, Conrad Sproul and
Deirdre (Chase) Reynolds.
For updated details or to help plan
a reunion for your class or group, call
503-883-2244 or check the website.
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1930-37
Fulbright fuels math research
Growing up as the
daughter of two scientists,
Kamila Larripa ‘01 saw the
world through curious
eyes.
It’s little wonder then
that Larripa has pursued a
life of science herself,
centered on research and
her passion for math and
biology. Larripa is currently
a Ph.D. candidate at the
University of California,
Kamila Larripa ‘01
Davis, in applied mathematics. She has been awarded a Fulbright grant to study
in Switzerland, where she is creating a mathematical
model to describe the distribution of actin, a cellular protein.
Larripa arrived in Switzerland in July, and took
French classes at the University of Fribourg before
beginning research in October at the École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne.
“Math is beautiful and austere, but when applied to
real world problems, it comes alive for me,” said Larripa,
whose work combines biology and mathematics. “This
Fulbright project is the culmination of so much that I
learned at Linfield. I’m using language, math and biology.”
At Linfield, Larripa immersed herself in math and
science classes, while minoring in French. She studied
linguistics with Peter Richardson, professor of German,
who remembers Larripa as someone who always sat in
the front row and was “bright, cheery, thoughtful and
articulate.”
“I was impressed with her as a human being and as a
student,” he said. “She was clearly going places, and I’m
glad she went to a place I love very much.”
Larripa developed a love of travel and international
living during a semester-abroad trip to Paris during her
junior year. She also took part in two summer research
programs, which propelled her to graduate school —
George Washington University’s Summer Program for
Women in Math and the Enhancing Diversity in
Graduate Education Program at Bryn Mawr College.
Larripa expects to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics
in 2006. She hopes to continue her research and teach at
a small liberal arts college.
“Maybe even Linfield,” she said.
– Laura Davis
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Jane (Weber) Reeves ’37 of
Bellingham, Wash., celebrated her
90th birthday in November.
1950-59
Colin Armstrong ’51 of
McMinnville was honored by the
McMinnville Area Chamber of
Commerce for his work on the
Rotary Nature Preserve at Tice
Woods. He was one of the founders
of the park development project
which received the Chamber’s
Beautification Award.
Enid R. Briggs ’53 of
Milwaukie is the state youth director for the Federation of Garden
Clubs of Oregon.
Robert E. Dooley ’53 of
Lancaster, S.C., volunteers at
Wycliffe Bible Translators.
R. Carl and Deirdre (Chase)
Reynolds ’56 and ’55 of Lincoln
City celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary in August.
Donald Cordill ’58 of
Anaheim, Calif., took a European
cruise from Copenhagen to Dover,
Barcelona, Rome and Monaco.
Walter and Esther (Blockley)
Nelson ’57 and ’58 of Yakima,Wash.,
hike eight to 11 miles a day and are
active in civic groups and their
church.
Jim Buckingham ’58 of
Calistoga, Calif., volunteers in the
accounting department of St.
Helena Hospital once a month.
Ronald K. Green ’59 of Rock
Hill, S.C., is developing a graduate
program in social work at Winthrop
University. He is professor and chair
of the social work department.
1960-69
Roberta (Amundson) Morin
’60 of Hereford is a speaker for the
Christian Women’s Club and area
representative for three Christian
women’s clubs.
George F. LeCompte ’61 of
Bremerton, Wash., is on the board
of Cascade Meadows Camp and is a
moderator at Manette Community
Church.
Donald E. Slawson ’61 of
Winchester, Va., retired as a computer specialist for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
Gene Carlson ’61 of Sisters is
in his second year as interim superintendent for Condon School
District.
Jean (Chatterton) Kludas ’61
of Portland married Colin Veach in
June.
G. Neal Maine ’62 of Seaside
received the Nature Conservancy of
Oregon Leadership Award. He is a
founder of the North Coast Land
Conservancy to protect important
ecological systems and preserve land
for recreation.
George E. Nelson ’61 of
Pendleton retired from medical
practice in July.
Sharon L. Noteboom ’62 of
Walnut Creek, Calif., retired from
teaching after 32 years.
Doug Antrobus ’62 of Natick,
Mass., bought a winter home in
Casa Grande, Ariz., after spending
six months a year for the past four
years in an RV.
Richard A. Robbins ’63
of Mount Airy, N.C., has retired
again. He first retired from the
U.S. Air Force in 1985. He
recently retired as a senior aerospace science instructor for the
Air Force Junior ROTC
program at Surry Central High
School in Dobson, N.C.
Karen (Allen) Nelson ’63 of
Anderson, Ind., retired in May after
serving 25 years as the director of
the learning assistance programs at
Anderson University.
Theodore D. Mack ’64 of
Paul Smiths, N.Y., is retiring after 35
years as head librarian at Paul
Smith’s College.
Robert McCaa ’64 of
Minneapolis, Minn., is a principal
investigator at the Minnesota
Population Center at the University
of Minnesota. He recently received a
National Science Foundation grant
to continue collecting worldwide
census data for the IPUMS project.
James V. Anderson ’65 and
’69 of Roseburg published his third
volume of poetry from the Taoist
perspective.
Thomas T. Teruya ’65 of
Kaneohe, Hawaii, is organizing an
Alpha Tau Omega reunion in
Hawaii in October.
Juliette (Miranda) Tulang ’66
of Hilo, Hawaii, was elected governor for the ninth district of Zonta
International, an organization that
advances the status of women
worldwide.
Ellis M. Keck ’66 of Salt Lake
City, Utah, served as interim pastor
at the First Baptist Church for two
and a half years.
Carla (Hendrickson)
Danziger ’66 of McLean, Va., published a novel, Hidden Falls, set in
Norway.
Jill (Brown) Becotte ’67 of
Redlands, Calif., has taught elementary school for 37 years. She traveled
to Turkey in November and has also
been to Ireland and China.
James Hansen ’67 of
Anchorage, Alaska, retired in August
after 24 years as chief petroleum
geophysicist and oil and gas lease
sales manager for the State of Alaska.
Thomas Clodfelter ’67 of
Beaverton recently retired from the
Portland Branch of the Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco after
31 years of service.
Roger F. Peters ’67 of Justin,
Texas, retired from American
Airlines in June. He had flown since
1986 and was a captain on the
Fokker 100 for nine years, based out
of Dallas-Fort Worth.
Robert E. Ferguson ’65 of
Vancouver, Wash., received his master’s in teaching in June from City
University.
Lyndel Meikel ’68 of Deer
Lodge, Mont., is publishing a sequel
to her book, Speaking Ill of the Dead:
Jerks in Montana History.
Sandra Thompson ’68 of
Torrance, Calif., was sworn in as
president of the National
Association of Women Judges.
She is a judge in the Los Angeles
Superior Court.
Elizabeth (Linscott)
Hardaway ’69 of Honolulu,
Hawaii, retired in November as
chief U.S. probation officer for the
U.S. courts in the District of
Hawaii.
Marilyn (Nickerson)
Gauntlett ’69 of Kirkland, Wash.,
retired in June after 35 years teaching
music in the Bellevue School District.
1970-79
Duane Terry ’70 of Hillsboro
retired as probation/parole supervisor
with Washington County in 1999 and
became a certified domestic violence
counselor, working with various private agencies in the Portland area.
Richard Burris ’70 of
Norman, Okla., is comptroller of the
Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma.
He previously served as rector of St.
Michael’s Episcopal Church.
Gene Lilly ’70 of Ilwaco,
Wash., is a senior inspector on highway and bridge construction projects for the Oregon Department of
Transportation.
Jackie (Anger) Hubka ’71
of West Linn coordinates the Life
and Career Options Program at
Clackamas Community College
and is an instructor in human services for the Education and Human
Services Department. She also has
a private mental health practice,
consulting with businesses as an
employee assistance counselor and
training specialist.
James “Lee” Lambert ’72
of San Marcos, Calif., is self-employed
as a loan sales agent for commercial
and residential lenders. He writes
news and commentary for a national
Christian news wire service. This year,
he will produce three hour-long
television specials for the SkyAngel
satellite system.
Bob Emrick ’72 of
McMinnville received the
McMinnville Area Chamber of
Commerce’s Large Business of the Year
Award for Western Oregon Waste.
Gerald W. DeVore ’73 of
Saugus, Calif., celebrated his 20th
anniversary with the FBI.
Bill Brenner ’73 of Tucson,
Ariz., is a project manager for a commercial construction staffing firm.
Lynne (Burch) Svenson ’73
of Clatskanie retired after teaching
elementary school in Clatskanie for
30 years.
Raymond G. Johnson ’74 of
Eugene has started a new computer
consulting business, iSolutions.
Douglas J. McBride ’74 of
Billings, Mont., was appointed to
the Montana Board of Examiners.
Melissa (Gleiser) Guyles ’74
of Steilacoom, Wash., is a kindergarten teacher in the Steilacoom
School District.
Bill and Karen (Martin)
Kemp ’76 and ’96 live in Tahoe
Vista, Nev., where Bill is executive
director of the Tahoe Forest
Hospital Foundation and Karen is a
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freelance legal secretary. Bill recently
completed his certification as a
Certified Fund Raising Executive and
also works part-time for Skystone
Ryan, an international non-profit
and fund raising consulting firm.
Bryon Brown ’76 of Hillsboro
is supervisor of the Security Threat
Groups/Gang Enforcement Team at
the Washington County Jail. In
August, he received his Supervisor’s
Certificate from the Department of
Public Safety and Standards in
Monmouth.
Janine Sarti ’78 of Eagle,
Idaho, is vice president and chief
legal officer at St. Luke’s Regional
Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. She
recently received an award from the
Tribute to Women and Industry
(TWIN) Award Program which
honors executive, managerial and
professional women and their
employers. She is active on several
committees for the Idaho State Bar,
is a member of the Idaho Liability
Reform Coalition and the Idaho
Association of Commerce and
Industry. She is also a member of
the Washington, Oregon and
Colorado State Bar Associations.
She and her husband, Bruce
Kubler ’79, are hosting a German
foreign exchange student who is a
junior at Eagle High School.
Suzette Garoutte ’79 of La
Grande is a licensed Kindermusik
teacher. She has taught piano and
voice since 1980 and has also taught
music and theatre at Eastern
Oregon University.
1980-89
Marty Lyts ’80 of Gilbert,
Ariz., is vice president of Client
Relations for Beneco Inc., setting
up pension and welfare plans
for construction companies working under the State Prevailing
Wage or Federal Davis Bacon
contracts. Prior to that he spent
19 years in the hotel and restaurant industry.
Tamara (Owens) Backston
’80 of San Rafael, Calif., owns and
operates an interior design business.
Kimberly (Ellings) Batchelor
’82 of Portland is a professor of
education at Concordia University.
Bill Dale ’82 of Hillsboro is
the language arts and study skills
teacher at St. Helens High School.
Valerie (Pigg) Rozzi ’83 of
Palmer, Alaska, teaches fifth grade at
Goose Bay Elementary School in
Wasilla.
Kenneth J. Billeci ’83 of
Aloha is a purchasing agent for
Whitecap in Hillsboro.
Grace (Spencer) O’Connor
’83 of Eagle Creek does art installation in residences, offices and hotels.
Michael and Gillian (Bevers)
Freeman ’83 and ’85 of San
Marcos, Calif., had a daughter,
Malina Grace, Sept. 22.
Alan de Meurers ’84 of
Keizer was one of 14 Salem-Keizer
School District employees to receive
a Crystal Apple Award for his efforts
to provide a quality education to
the children of the community. He
is a bilingual kindergarten and reading teacher at Lamb Elementary
School.
Lloyd Lindley ’84 of Eugene
retired from Eugene Water and
Electric and now sells real estate.
Tony Brenneman ’84 of
Kalona, Iowa, is an assistant professor and director of clinical education in the Physician Assistant
Program at the University of Iowa.
Joseph A. Alward ’86 of
Anchorage, Alaska, is in his 14th
year as a science teacher at West
High School.
Shawna (Outslay)
Hackelman ’84 of Tualatin is a
sales representative for national
accounts for GE Security. She
recently received the President’s
Award, a peer award for best representing the GE values.
Stephen P. Patten ’85 of
Troutdale received his master’s
degree in nursing from Graceland
University in Independence, Mo.
Shelley Wennermark ’85 of
Las Vegas, Nev., married Rick Vorce
Oct. 21 in Honolulu, Hawaii. She
hosts and produces The Briefing
Room, a weekly television show in
the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Department.
Sandra Cardozo ’85 of
Modesto, Calif., is the central valley
district sales manager for Hunter
Douglas.
Sherri (Dunmyer) Partridge
’86 of Salem is president of the
board of directors of the Humane
Society of the Willamette Valley. She
is the annual giving and special
events officer at Salem Hospital.
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R. Andrew Hunt ’86 of
Hillsboro is the director of community development for children’s
mental health at the National Indian
Child Welfare Association in
Portland.
Lisa Fraser ’86 of Seattle,
Wash., received her master’s in
library and information science
from the University of Washington
in June. She was presented the 21st
Century Award, given to the graduating student who most embodies
the attributes of today’s librarian. She
is currently the reference librarian
with King County Library System
at the Bellevue Regional Library.
Carol Terjeson-Rolph ’88 of
Portland recently retired after serving as a teacher, elementary school
principal, high school principal and
assistant superintendent.
Matthew L. Cate ’88 of Elk
Grove, Calif., has been appointed
inspector general overseeing the
California prison and parole system.
He has worked in the California
Attorney General’s Criminal Law
Division since 1996.
Pamela J. Miller ’88 of Bend
is a field director for Special
Olympics, working primarily in
central and eastern Oregon.
John and Lisa (Lind)
Prevedello ’88 and ’89 of Eugene
had a son, Zane, their third. John
has opened an advertising agency in
Eugene.
Kimi (Shelton) Muller ’89 of
Portland and her husband, Erik, had
a son, Chase, June 18.
Dean J. Lewis ’89 of Albany
works for Countrywide Home
Loans, after 12 years working at
Wells Fargo.
Paige Wallace ’89 of Portland
is development and communications
coordinator at the Native Fish
Society, a nonprofit preservation
group.
Tiffany Richardson ’89 of
Clackamas married Fred McKinnon
Dec. 4 in Portland.
1990-99
Kelly McDonald ’90 of Salem
was named Business Leader of the
Year by the McMinnville Area
Chamber of Commerce. He is the
owner of McDonald Properties.
Nicole Morgado ’90 of
McLean, Va., married Theodore
Case Aug. 9.
Julie (Randall) Sequeira ’91
of Littleton, Colo., is an insurance
agent with American Family
Insurance.
Matt and Joy (Nicolas)
Esposito ’90 and ’91 live in Des
Moines, Iowa, where Matt is an
associate professor of history at
Drake University. Joy is a social
worker at a nonprofit agency and
works with young women.
Amy Coe-Ingalls ’90 of
Chicago, Ill., and her husband, Jeff,
had a daughter, Charlotte, March 31.
Renee Struthers ’91 of
Pendleton married Jason Hogge Jan. 5.
Keith Mays ’91 of Sherwood
was elected mayor.
Kristin Fadness Brown ’91 of
Olympia, Wash., and her husband,
Marcus, had a daughter, Monica
Rose, Oct. 11.
Rodney and Allison (Schoof)
Brown ’92 and ’97 of
McMinnville had a son, Carson,
Nov. 18, their fourth.
Susanne Dalton-Smith ’93 of
Roseburg is a guidance counselor at
Wolf Creek Job Corps.
Michelle (Kimball) Mhoon
’93 of Salem and her husband,
Mark, had a daughter, Ella, June 9.
Christy (Freeburn) Riche ’93
of Eagle, Idaho, and her husband, Jon,
had a son, Harrison Dean, Sept. 26.
Katie (Reef) Marker ’93 of
Beaverton had a kidney transplant
in November.
Corinthia Paul ’93 of Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada, is regional financial manager for the Department of
Foreign Affairs and International
Trade for the government of
Canada.
Scott Safford ’93 of Corvallis
is an assistant professor of psychology
at Oregon State University.
Brook Honda ’93 of Waipahu,
Hawaii, and her husband, James
Chun, had a son, Stone Kaiho’olulu,
Aug. 6.
Dawn Sargent ’94 of
Beaverton married Todd Shuey Oct.
9 in Portland.
Kathleen (Neal) Johnson ’94
of Kelso, Wash., was elected to the
Cowlitz County Board of
Commissioners.
Kimberly (Moar) Benedetti
’94 of Tigard and her husband,
Jared, had a son, Zachary Scott,
April 13.
Scott and Tasha (Kent)
Knight, both ’94, moved to
Richmond, Va., where Scott is an
assistant professor of biology at the
University of Richmond.
Timothy and Kimberly
(Huserik) Olietti ’95 and ’94 of
Gaston had a son, Isaac, March 16,
their third.
Steve Stuart ’94 of Vancouver,
Wash., was elected to the Clark
County commission.
Closing in on 50,000 miles
Gordon Gillmouth ‘63 of Fremont, Calif., is closing
in on a lifelong goal.
Gillmouth, an avid runner who logs more than
1,500 miles each year, wants to run 50,000 miles before
hanging up his running shoes. So far he’s completed
nearly 40,000 miles.
“I particularly enjoy long distance relays for the athletic challenge and the team camaraderie,” said
Gillmouth, a finance manager with Roche Palo Alto
LLC, in Palo Alto, Calif.
Gillmouth has focused on three relay events since
taking up running for exercise 28 years ago. He’s participated in the Oregon Hood to Coast Relay for 15 consecutive years and the Saturn Relay in California for 10
years. Most recently, he has run the Ameri-Cana
International Relay, from Nelson, British Columbia, to
Sandpoint, Idaho, 223.7 miles.
Gillmouth, who grew up in McMinnville and
earned a business degree at Linfield, was a sports writer
for the News-Register for seven years during high school
and college. He worked under Paul Durham,
long-time Linfield athletic director and
head football coach, who moonlighted as
the News-Register sports editor.
“His sports column was called
‘Dodging with Durham,’” Gillmouth
remembered. “I learned a lot about
life from Paul and admire how he
was able to handle all those
duties.”
Gillmouth said he enjoys
running for many reasons —
the beauty of the outdoors, the
freedom to run just about anywhere and the fact that it’s a relatively inexpensive sport.
“It’s a great stress reliever, and
I’ve met many great people through
running,” he added. “Some people
look for excuses not to run or
participate in physical activity;
my theory is to find excuses
to run!”
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A taste of Linfield
Linfield College trustees literally
got a taste of Linfield during the Board
of Trustees luncheon in November.
“Linfield Cheesecake,” a recipe
devised by Bette Hagman ‘43, who is also
known as the “Gluten-Free Gourmet,”
was served for dessert. The recipe is
included in Hagman’s newest book,
The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Comfort
Foods. She is the author of five other
medical diet cookbooks as well.
Over the past 27 years, Hagman has
created more than 1,700 recipes in her
Seattle kitchen, all tailored to the diets of
those who cannot eat gluten, a protein
found in wheat, rye, barley and possibly
oats. Her recipes fill the tables of a growing
segment of the population which suffers
from celiac disease, a digestive illness that
causes malnutrition due to gluten intolerance.
In addition to penning her cookbook
series, Hagman has filmed nine PBS cooking shows and frequently lectures around
the country. She is also involved with four
national celiac organizations.
Hagman dubbed the dessert “Linfield
Cheesecake” after a group visiting from the
college sampled the tropical-flavored dessert
Yasemin (Vahap) Richardson
’94 of Mountain View, Calif., is a
realtor working in Santa Clara County.
Cori (Howard) Sturgeon ’94
of Grand Junction, Colo., and her
husband, Timothy, had a son, Blake
Timothy, their second.
James Longhurst ’94 of Dade
City, Fla., completed his Ph.D. in
American environmental history at
Carnegie Mellon University.
Tana Perkins ’94 of
Kennewick, Wash., completed her
master’s in teaching and teaches first
grade in Kennewick.
Laura Hollingsworth ’94 of
Troutdale works in the accounting
department of Azumano Travel.
Erik Hamlett ’94 of Corvallis
is assistant DJ at the Silverado in
Portland.
Amber (Such) Loidhamer
’95 of Wenatchee, Wash., and her
husband, Steve, had a son, Camden
Robert, May 17.
Goeff Horning ’95 married
Holly Duckworth ’98 June 4 in
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while sitting around her kitchen table.
Linfield Cheesecake ©
Crust:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease
a 9˝ springform pan.
1 cup flaked coconut
1/4 cup chopped macadamia nuts
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
Crust: In a small bowl, combine the
coconut and macadamia nuts. Stir in the
butter and press onto the bottom of the
prepared pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Cool.
Filling:
Filling: In the bowl of your mixer, beat
the cream cheese and sugar until smooth.
Add the flour mix and beat well. Add the
eggs, beating on low until just combined.
Add the sour cream, lemon juice and flavorings; beat until just blended. Remove
the bowl from the mixer and stir in the
drained pineapple with a mixing spoon.
Pour the filling over the crust. Bake
50 minutes or until the center is almost
set. Cool and refrigerate for four hours or
overnight. To serve, top each piece with a
dab of whipped cream or nondairy substitute and decorate with a slice of peeled
kiwi fruit (or your choice of other tropical fruit). Makes 12 servings.
Two 8-ounce packages cream cheese
(light okay)
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons gluten-free mix
3 eggs
1 cup sour cream (light okay)
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon pineapple or almond
extract
One 8-ounce can crushed pineapple,
drained well
Gluten-free mix:
2 parts rice flour
2/3 part potato starch
1/3 part tapioca flour
Portland.
Jennifer Schuler ’95 of Dallas
married Elliott Johns Dec. 4.
Jennifer McWayne ’95 of
Portland married Scott Meyer May 15.
Kimberly K. Davis ’95 of
Portland is vice president at
Waggener Edstrom.
Christina (Davis) Dessaules
’95 of Phoenix, Ariz., and her husband,
Jonathan, had a daughter, Ruby
Davis, Dec. 16.
Susan M. Hawes ’95 of
Portland graduated from East West
College of the Healing.
Atsuko Node ’95 of Tokyo,
Japan, is a retail specialist in the golf
business unit at Nike Japan.
Brian R. Schmidt ’96 of Lake
Oswego and his wife had a son,
Owen Lee, Sept. 29.
Shannon (Parton) Milton ’96
of Pasadena, Md., and her husband,
Aaron, had a son, Austin William,
Sept. 20.
Eric Taylor ’96 of Everett,
Wash., is a systems analyst for
Nutrients per serving: Calories 510,
Fat 35g, Cholesterol 120mg, Sodium
220mg, Carbohydrates 43g, Protein 8.5g,
Fiber 1g.
Boeing’s new developmental airplane, the 7E7 Dreamliner.
Nathan and Samantha
(Yaple) Christensen ’96 and ’97
live in Rochester, N.Y. Nathan
received his doctor of medicine
degree cum laude from Oregon
Health and Science University in
June. He is currently in a residency
program in otolaryngology at the
University of Rochester.
Laura Spradlin ’96 of
Gresham married Steve Piner Sept.
25 in Portland.
Gina (Mohatt) Mueller ’96 of
Dayton and her husband, David, had
a son, Daniel John, Oct. 12.
Chris and Michelle
(Schmidt) Woods, both ’97, of
Walnut Grove, Calif., had a daughter, Madison Ruth, Aug. 8.
Korenza E. Burris ’97 of
Kennewick,Wash., is an anchor for
KNDU-TV.
Gregory and Amy (Walsh)
Rice, both ’97, of Portland had a
daughter, Emily Hannah, Feb. 2.
Tammie (Leberti) Montiel
’97 of Coos Bay is the varsity volleyball coach at Marshfield High
School.
Megan Muth ’97 of Tualatin
married Kevin Larson June 19 in
Aurora.
Marina (Heiser) Sage ’97
of Albuquerque, N.M., and her
husband, Patrick, had a son, Noah
Patrick, Nov. 14.
Chris Burke ’97 of Kirkland,
Wash., is manager of financial planning and analysis for Classmates.com.
Angie (Perdue) Long ’97 of
Portland and her husband, Andy, had
a son, Carson, April 26.
Danielle (Perry) Meyers ’97
of Moses Lake, Wash., has a joint
faculty position at Samaritan
Hospital and Big Bend Community
College. During the summer she
works at Samaritan Hospital compiling health education information
for patients and the public. In the
fall she teaches in the nursing program at BBCC.
Erica (Thomas) Nichols ‘97
of McMinnville and her husband,
Steven, had a daughter, Marlowe
Grace, Aug. 2.
Sherry Richardson ‘97 of
Las Cruces, N.M., is an addictions
therapist in the Therapeutic
Community of Southern New
Mexico Correctional Facility.
She is a licensed drug and alcohol
counselor and will soon be licensed
as a professional counselor. She
has been a nationally certified
counselor for over four years.
Sue Piper ‘98 of Longview,
Wash., is the editor and publisher of
the Columbia River Reader, a monthly publication covering the Columbia
River region.
Brian Reichelt ‘97 of
Hillsboro married Annie Malkowski
June 26.
Erin Madden ’97 of Kuwait
City, Kuwait, teaches fourth grade at
the American School.
Sabrina (Hendricks) Park
’97 of Portland and her husband,
Matthew, had a son, Ethan Quinn,
July 19.
Amy (Terry) Washam ’98 of
Beaverton is a teacher in Washington
County.
Kira Besh ’98 of Anchorage,
Alaska, completed her master’s in
conservation and biodiversity at the
University of Leeds in England.
Tracie (Bailey) Hankel ’98 of
Sherwood and her husband, Bob,
had a son, Jackson Bailey, March 6.
Michelle (Pennings) Massey
’99 of Seattle, Wash., and her husband, Oliver, had a daughter, Elaina
Rose, April 29.
Kristen E. Teel ’98 of Portland
is an event coordinator at the Portland
Rose Festival.
Amy (Ferguson) Perkins
’98 of Poulsbo, Wash., and her husband, Josh, had a son, Tanner Perkins,
June 27.
Justin Taylor ’98 of Spokane,
Wash., and his wife, Michelle, had a
son, Miguel Roma, Oct. 13. Justin
is a commercial banker with Bank
of America.
Joshua Fischel ’98 of Lusaka,
Zambia, is the consular officer for
the U.S. Embassy in Lusaka.
Ruth Fleisher ’98 of Woodburn
works for Women in Community
Service, a national nonprofit agency
working with low income women
at PIVOT Job Corps Center in
Portland. She is also taking courses
to begin a career in the healthcare
field.
Tina (Hall) Dunn ’99 of
Vancouver, Wash., and her husband,
Brian, had a son, Owen, Aug. 31.
Reece Dano ’99 of Portland
had his musical composition “for
viola and turntables” presented
at a Cambridge University colloquium in February. An interview
Dano gave to Elizabeth Tolbert
of the Peabody Conservatory of
Johns Hopkins University was
published in a chapter in Bad
Music. Dano’s chamber orchestra
work “Boulez is Dead” was premiered by the Analog Arts
Ensemble, made up of members of
the Omaha, Neb., Symphony, on
Sept. 11. He is also collaborating
with playwright E. Thomalen on a
setting of Franz Kafka’s
Metamorphosis.
Ryan Hunter ’99 of Roseburg
and his wife, Mykal, had a daughter,
Whitney Marie, Oct. 13.
Marcia Gerdes ’99 of Issaquah,
Wash., married John Harris April 3
in Seattle.
Erika Moore ’99 of McMinnville
received a master’s in curriculum
and instruction from Portland State
University last summer. She teaches
second grade in McMinnville.
Stacy Voigt ’99 of Manila,
Philippines, teaches fifth grade and
coaches girls’ varsity basketball at
the International School.
Karen Bretl ’99 of Berkeley,
Calif., is working on a master of
divinity degree at Church Divinity
School of the Pacific, an Episcopal
seminary. She received an Excellence
in Ministry scholarship, covering
100 percent of her tuition for the
three-year program.
Marsha (Cooper) Moore ’99
of Spokane, Wash., received her
master’s in public administration in
July and works for U.S. Sen. Maria
Cantwell.
Mike and Claire (Kendall)
Lord ’99 and ’00 had a daughter,
Ella Grace, Aug. 23, their second.
2000-04
Amber Loeffelbein ’00 of
Jefferson married Gregory Beck July
21. She is the hospitality manager at
Duck Pond Cellars.
Kristen Collins ’00 of
Sherwood married Luke Gehring
Oct. 16 in Beaverton. She spent two
years in the Peace Corps in
Honduras. She is currently studying
in the physician assistant master’s
program at Oregon Health and
Science University.
Dana Roberts ’00 of
Olympia, Wash., is head athletic
trainer at Saint Martin’s College in
Lacey.
Audrea S. Lepper ’00 of
Directing homeland security
In 1992, Beverlee (Venell)
Stilwell ‘95 knew she needed
a bachelor’s degree to advance
beyond her state government
job.
So the 30-year-old
divorced mother of two
enrolled in Linfield’s Adult
Degree Program. Twelve years
later, in May 2004, she became
one of Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s
highest-ranking advisers when
he created the Oregon Office
of Homeland Security and
appointed her its director.
Stilwell, who received her B.S. in management with
honors, said she was drawn to the Linfield program because
of its flexibility and high-caliber instructors. She was able
to take a variety of electives. “I was able to pursue a lot of
things I’d never been able to pursue before,” she said.
Overall, she said, “It’s helped me be a better leader and a
better manager.”
Kate Bemis, director of the Adult Degree Program, said
students such as Stilwell “have demonstrated competence
and intellect, but lack the academic background to take the
next step. Linfield offers them the theoretical context to
understand their workplace experiences in a new way.
These students are a delight to work with because they’re
very focused on what they know they’re capable of doing,
and they bring life experience to the classroom.”
Stilwell’s life as a student was hectic. She worked 60
to 80 hours a week while taking a full load of courses and
caring for her daughters, now 18 and 21.
Her career in criminal justice began in 1993 as a federal
grant coordinator for the Criminal Justice Services Division
of the Oregon State Police. In 1999 she was promoted to
commander of the State Police Intergovernmental Services
Bureau, overseeing Emergency Management, the state
fire marshal, the Forensic Services Division, the state medical
examiner and Criminal Justice Services Division.
The new agency consolidates Oregon’s anti-terrorism
efforts and preparation for natural disasters. Stilwell’s duties
include coordination with federal authorities and state
legislators. She describes herself as a dedicated problemsolver, multi-tasker and strategic thinker. “Being a mom,
you immediately learn how to do about five things at
once,” she said.
As for her future, Stilwell said, “I never rule out
anything. I do the absolute best I can every day and see
what opportunities present themselves.”
– Beth Rogers Thompson
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Hillsboro married James Neville.
Carolyn McQuaw ’00 of State
College, Pa., married James Watney
’00 Sept. 18 in McMinnville.
Joshua Halsey ’00 of Seattle,
Wash., is prevention resource
coordinator for the Puget Sound
Educational Service District. He
is also head soccer coach at
Evergreen High School and continues clinical work as an alcoholism therapist at Harborview
Medical Center.
Timothy Redfern ‘00 of
Atkinson, N.H., is manager of
internal audit for SkillSoft PLC, an
e-learning company.
Robert and Trisha (Grieb)
Grover, both ’00, of Bend had a
son, Joseph, May 6, their second.
Diana L. Stephens ’00 of
Portland received her master’s in
architecture from the University of
Oregon.
Vickie (Grassmann) Wright
’00 of Salem is working on a master’s in teaching at Willamette
University.
Merilee (Cosgrove)
Zimbelman ’00 of Parker, Colo.,
and her husband, Taylor, had a son,
Trenten Reed, Nov. 19.
Jennifer Deeder ’00 of Allston,
Mass., graduated with a master’s in
marketing communication from
Emerson College in Boston.
Donegal Fergus ’00 of
Longview, Wash., married Kimberly
Franett Dec. 31 in Costa Rica.
Andrew Brawley ’01 of
Burbank, Calif., is international
marketing coordinator for THQ, a
video game manufacturer in
Calabasas Hills.
Christopher Flores ’01 of
Beaverton married Jennifer Pierce
’99 Sept. 4 in Hillsboro.
Heather Thompson ’01 of
Portland is a financial accounting
associate at Mazama Capital
Management in Portland.
Kimo H. Mahi ’01 of
McMinnville completed a master’s
in health education and teaches
middle school in Salem.
Lisa Taylor ’01 of Portland was
awarded the Chartered Financial
Analyst designation in November.
She is an investor relations manager
for Homestead Capital.
Kelly Kannan ’01 of Vallejo,
Calif., married George Savage
March 28.
Deborah Meyer and Erik
Moen, both ’02, of Tualatin were
married June 18. She works at
Willamette Valley Fruit Company in
Salem and he teaches and coaches
in Tualatin.
Amber Bowles ’01 of Bend
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married Brent Wilson Aug. 7.
Darren D. Heath ’02 of San
Diego, Calif., plays baseball for an independent team in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Ryan Cruz ’02 of Hillsboro
married Stacia Wiggins July 10. He
teaches at Westside Christian High
School.
Monica Thompson ’02 of
Beaverton married Brian Spangler
Aug. 21.
Julaine Nygren ’02 of Salem
married Sergei Furduy Jr. April 24.
Kristin Haring ’02 of Lacey,
Wash., married Justin Sprague June 30.
Kathleen R. Fraser ’02 of
Sheridan teaches at Grandhaven
Elementary School in McMinnville.
Kyle J. Bradstreet ’03 married
Lindsay Schlieski ’02 of Lake
Oswego on June 19. He is a construction supervisor and she is an
accountant.
Tracy Forrester ’03 of Burbank,
Calif., is account coordinator at
MPRM, a Los Angeles-based entertainment public relations firm.
Lisa Watson ’03 of Astoria
received her master’s degree in
teaching with a special education
endorsement and secondary authorization from Pacific University. She
is a resource room specialist at
Warrenton High School.
Paul D. Beck ’03 of Bountiful,
Utah, and his wife, Megan, had a
son, Harrison Daniel, Sept. 24.
Zachary R. Dahl ’02 and
Nicholas D. Dahl ’03, both of
Toledo, have purchased Siletz
Sanitary Service, merging it with
Dahl Disposal Service.
Natalie Shivers ’03 of
McMinnville married John
Behrends Sept. 3 in Dayton.
Jamie Brown and Clark
Paterson, both ’03, were married
Aug. 11 in Oregon City. They are
pursuing graduate studies in
Colorado.
Brandon Fricke ’03 of
McMinnville teaches physical education at Taft High School.
Laycee (Tucker) Grauer ’03
of Sheridan teaches third grade in
the Sheridan School District.
Erin Bernard ’03 is a teacher
in Cozumel, Mexico.
Justin R. Knapp ’03 of
Shoreline, Wash., teaches elementary
school in Seattle.
Katy Schopfer ’03 of Salem is
an employment recruiter for
Business Careers of Seattle, Wash.
Denise (Biron) Arnold ’04 of
Newberg and her husband had a
son, Reid Arnold, June 10.
Lillian S. Read ’04 of Forest
Grove went on an archaeological dig
and spent three months in Europe.
Corrine Sparks and Matt
Haning, both ’04, of McMinnville
were married Aug. 21. She is an
outreach counselor for Linfield
College admission and he is an
English as a second language assistant for Newberg School District.
Deborah Schor and JohnPaul Dion, both ’04, of Portland
were married July 23 in Corvallis.
Crystal Mascorro ’04 of
Hillsboro works with the convention services group of the Portland
Oregon Visitors Association.
Stephanie Mattie ’04 of Lake
Oswego married James Bergh Aug.
13. She is an accountant with
Parrott Partnership.
In memoriam
Janet (McAllister) Warren ’34
of McMinnville, Dec. 12.
J. Richard Nokes ’36 of King
City, Oct. 23. Linfield trustee emeritus. Survivors include his wife,
Evelyn (Junkin) Nokes ’36, and
daughter, Gail (Nokes) Hulden
’66.
Stanley P. Cornils ’39 of
Vallejo, Calif., Oct. 5.
John Leland Moore ’39 of
Sherwood, Dec. 26.
Robert G. Gemmell ’41 of
Dickinson, Texas, June 11.
Dorothy (Boslar) Rhoads ’41
of Bend, Oct. 6.
Ellene (Groening) Monnes
’43 of Gresham, Nov. 13. Survivors
include her husband, Bernard J.
“Bud” ’42.
Bette (Allen) Claiborn ’45 of
Kimberly, Idaho, Sept. 20.
Philip G. O’Meara Sr. ’46 of
Wasco, Sept. 6.
Charles E. Brickwedel ’48 of
Brookings, S.D., Oct. 23.
Glenn L. Bates ’50 of
Newberg, Oct. 30.
Lewis E. “Bud” Aldrich Jr.
’50 of Rock Creek, Sept. 19.
Edward F. Chiodo ’50 of
Rancho Cordova, Calif., Aug. 4.
J. Norman Guedon ’50 of
Pleasanton, Calif., March 24.
Joe Brinton ’51 of Springfield,
Oct. 17.
Bruce W. Steller ’55 of Las
Vegas, Nev., July 13.
Joy (Proffitt) Schaefer ’57 of
West Linn, Oct. 2. Survivors include
a son, Casey ‘82.
Mary Lou (Cranage) Berg
’57 of Bainbridge Island, Wash.,
Aug. 3.
Charles H. Westfall ’58 of
Selah, Wash., Dec. 22.
Miriam (Eccles) Helseth ’58
and ’60 of Salem, Dec. 31.
William L. Bladine ’61 of
McMinnville,11 Oct. 21.
Rev. Harley D. Hunt ’62 of
Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 17. Survivors
include a sister, Muriel (Hunt)
Dresser ’59.
JoAnn (Wright) Ragain ’63
of Glendive, Mont., Oct. 25.
Survivors include her husband,
Kermit ’61, and son, Kerry ’91.
Constance (Malerick) Miri
’64 of Los Altos, Calif., Jan. 16, 2004.
Alvin A. Hieb ’65 of Tigard,
Sept. 30.
Gaylee (Wasco) Veatch ’69 of
Beaverton, Nov. 15.
Julie (Small) Wells ’69 of Salem,
Jan. 13. Survivors include her husband,
Alan ’67, and son, Joseph ’06.
Robert Williams ’74 of Oakland,
Calif., July 9.
Lori A. Cowan ’79 of Newberg,
Dec. 23.
Ronald Smith ’80 of Hartford,
Conn., June 3.
James N. Erickson ’82 of
Portland, Dec. 14.
Deborah A. Jardin ’84 of
Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 1.
Carol Terjeson-Rolph ’88
of Portland, Jan. 3.
Julee (Villarreal) Turpin ’00
of Portland, Aug. 29.
GSH
Elva “Kae” Hampton GSH
’40 of Portland, Aug. 23.
Anna (Hanford) Craft GSH
’45 of Sandy, Dec. 12.
Glenys Mansell-Matthews
GSH ’52 of Portland, Sept. 20.
Friends and family
Hilja (Hill) Burton of
McMinnville, Jan. 6. She was the
wife of the late Theodore R.
Burton ’26. Survivors include her
sons, William Burton ’69 and
George Burton ’60. Son Jon
Burton ’63 preceded her in death.
John “Jack” Cook of
McMinnville, Dec. 24.
Myrtle D. Hartley of
McMinnville, Nov. 23.
Arlene Miller of Dayton, Oct.
25. She worked at the physical plant
for many years. Survivors include
her husband, Douglas ’50.
Dallas W. Wilson of Portland,
Nov. 6.
Bob Wells of Carlton, Jan. 12.
He was physical plant director for
many years.
Touching lives in the classroom
As a young man growing up in Seattle, Wash.,
Daniel O’Leary ‘86 set his sights on medical school.
But his studies at Linfield and an internship at IBM
spurred other interests. Today, he is a Ph.D. rather than
an M.D., an award-winning associate professor of chemistry at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.
O’Leary graduated magna cum laude from Linfield
with a B.A. in chemistry and biology. He earned a Ph.D.
in chemistry from UCLA in 1991. As a graduate student, he won the 1988 American Chemical Society
Organic Division Fellowship and UCLA’s 1991
Winstein Dissertation Prize. A postdoctoral stint at
Harvard completed his formal training.
Since 1994, he has taught chemistry at Pomona, a
college that shares Linfield’s emphasis on undergraduate
education. In 1997 and 2003, he received Pomona’s
highest teaching award. And in 2003 he also won the
college’s Irvine Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award.
O’Leary said he was the first person in his family to
attend a small college.
“My high school track coach got me thinking
about Linfield,” he said, “and I figured he wouldn’t steer
me wrong. He told me one thing about Linfield was
that all the people he’d met from there were great
people. I fell in love with the small college atmosphere
and made a decision that I wanted to teach at a place
like Linfield.”
A nationally recognized organic chemist, O’Leary
specializes in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy,
which he translates as “a cousin of MRI (magnetic
resonance imaging). It’s a cutting-edge way to look at
molecular structure.” He is interested in the synthesis
and study of chemically modified biological structures. These investigations are funded by the
National Science Foundation and by The Camille
and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
With no graduate school at Pomona, O’Leary
involves undergraduates in his research. “They
make it happen in the laboratory and then get to
communicate their results at meetings and in
scientific papers,” he said. Four of his recent
papers have appeared in the prestigious Journal of
the American Chemical Society.
The close student-faculty relationships in a
smaller college pay off, O’Leary said. “Students
from small colleges have unique skills when they
go to graduate school. They know how to do
research. They’re comfortable around professors. They’re
able to successfully operate in an intellectual environment.”
In spring 2001, O’Leary taught a graduate course
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and found
that students who had attended smaller colleges
were more likely to visit him during office hours.
At home, O’Leary said, he enjoys being active with
his family. He met his wife, June, at UCLA, where she
earned an M.S. in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in public
health. She works as a consultant for the Rand Corp.
They have three daughters, 8, 3 and 2. O’Leary was an
assistant coach for his 8-year-old’s soccer team.
He joined Linfield’s Board of Trustees in 2004 and
continues to follow Linfield sports. He watched the
2004 football national championship game on television
with a Pomona friend who had competed against him
for Lewis and Clark’s track team during O’Leary’s
Linfield years.
And medical school? No regrets. O’Leary figures he
has touched more lives by teaching than he would have
as a physician. He said he has helped many students
advance to medical school, “so I’m doing my part for
the health industry.”
– Beth Rogers Thompson
Dan O’Leary ‘86 with his family, from left, Frances,
June, Katie (front) and Maggie.
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