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College is family affair for Elliotts
When Brett Elliott ’05 transferred to Linfield College
to finish his education and play football, little did he know
his mom would soon follow in his footsteps.
But come Dec. 18, there will be two Elliotts receiving
degrees from Linfield, Brett with a bachelor’s of arts in
mass communication and Leila ’05 with a bachelor’s
of science in nursing.
Brett is one of Linfield’s most recognizable faces following his record-breaking, award-winning season as
quarterback of the championship Wildcat football team.
Leila has had a much lower profile on the Portland
Campus, but is accomplished in her own right. When she
was accepted to the Linfield-Good Samaritan School of
Nursing she already had an undergraduate degree in
English and a law degree. After her youngest child
graduated from high school last year, she knew she
needed to change her focus. Since travel is her passion,
nursing seemed like the perfect profession, one that was
portable, allowing her to both work and travel.
Plus, she added, she had a first-hand look at the
nursing profession while raising her children.
“Brett and his brothers and sister ended up in the
hospital a lot with sports injuries and after watching the
nurses, I always thought it was just a great job,” she said
with a smile.
Her education has been very intense. She began the
17-month nursing program in June 2004 and has had
classes straight through with the exception of a five-week
break this past summer.
“I’ve given up everything except being a student,” she
said. “I don’t know how some people do it, the single
mothers or those with small children. Occasionally I’m a
mom, but rarely!”
Attending the same college, albeit on different
campuses much to Brett’s relief, has strengthened the bond
between mother and son.
“She’s realized how hard it is,” Brett said. “We’re both
big-time procrastinators. I’ll call her up at midnight and
ask her to edit a paper and she’ll still be up working on her
nursing stuff.”
Brett hopes to make the NFL draft next spring and
play professionally. When his football days are over, he
hopes to become a sports broadcaster. He’s already had
extensive media experience, through interviews with the
New York Times, USA Today and others; writing for the
Linfield Review; producing his own show on KSLC, the
student radio station; and through an internship last summer at 1080 The Fan in Portland.
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Leila and Brett Elliott, both ’05, celebrate after a football game.
Brett admits he is surprised at how excited and enthusiastic his mother has become about nursing school.
“She is intelligent and passionate about the things she
loves, her family and obviously nursing school,” he said.
“I thought she’d go for a couple of months and quit.”
Brett, Leila said, is someone she has watched develop
into a leader. “He’s a good friend and he’s apparently quite
chatty except when he’s around his mother,” she laughs.
“While he can appear laid back, he’s not when it comes to
things he really cares about.”
Despite the intensity of her coursework, the only
football game Leila missed last year was against the
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The family has
eight season tickets and those attending vary from game to
game. Ten family members attended the Stagg Bowl in
Virginia. Football and school will still be the focus this fall
for both mother and son, as the Wildcats defend their
national championship.
After graduation, while Brett trains and waits for the
draft, Leila will travel to India with Professors Vivian Tong
and Beverly Epeneter for the Health Care in India class
during January Term.
Then, once her husband retires in a few years, they
hope to travel extensively, spending several months at a
time in different countries, which may allow her to put
her nursing skills to work.
“I’d like to stay in a place for three or four months
and get to know the people, rather than just be a
tourist,” she said.
— Mardi Mileham
Inside Linfield Magazine
Oregon offers the perfect environment
for open-air classrooms from the coast to the
Cascades to the high desert. In this issue, we feature
one class that takes students on a five-day exploration of the Oregon Coast. We also profile
outstanding faculty – two received awards for outstanding teaching, research and service to Linfield,
one hopes to secure funding for a hospice program
in the Oregon prison system, another spent a
43-day pilgrimage in Spain to gain a better
understanding of that country's history, culture
and literature and thus enrich his classes. We also
take a look back to the 1975 Operation Babylift
and the impact of that event on four lives. Then
there’s that “other” streak – three faculty members
who have served as “voice of the Wildcats” since
1956. We look forward to sharing more stories
about the people of Linfield.
– Mardi Mileham
On the covers:
Front: Jonathan Stanfill ‘06 stands inside Devil’s
Punchbowl during the Shoreline Ecology class in
Newport in July. (Tom Ballard photo)
Back: Action during Linfield’s 45-7 win over
Wisconsin-Stevens Point (Caleb Bushner ’06 photos)
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A View from Melrose
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Linfield Digest
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‘Cat Tracks
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Alumni News
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Class Notes
Features
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Taking hospice inside the walls
One professor’s quest to bring hospice to the prisons
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Classroom on the coast
Learning about Oregon’s rich ecological diversity
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Balancing skills and creativity
Nils Lou on being creative in studio and classroom
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Going above and beyond for Linfield
Professor combines teaching, service and scholarship
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A journey of a lifetime
A 1,000-kilometer pilgrimage is spiritual and
emotional
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50 years as ‘voice of the Wildcats’
The faculty behind the football broadcasts
LINFIELD MAGAZINE
Editor
Mardi Mileham
mmileham@linfield.edu
503-883-2498
Juan Manuel Gómez
Mujib Kamawal ’06
Mardi Mileham
Thomas Pryor ’96
Assistant Editor
Laura Davis
Contributors
Kelly Bird
Marvin Henberg
Lisa Garvey ’86
Laura Graham ’07
Beth Rogers Thompson
Graphic Design
Candido Salinas III
Photography
Tom Ballard
Caleb Bushner ’06
Kelly Bird
Laura Davis
Advisory Board
Ed Gans
Kerry (Van Wyngarden)
Hinrichs ’96
Dick Hughes ’75
R. Gregory Nokes
Sherri (Dunmyer)
Partridge ’86
Interim President
Marvin Henberg
Vice President for
College Relations
Bruce Wyatt
Director of Alumni
Relations
Lisa Garvey ’86
Fall 2005 Vol. 2, No. 2
Linfield Magazine is published three times annually by
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Faculty Profile
A View from Melrose
Engaging students in education
In education there are no shortcuts. Virtual reality may provide asynchronous access to learning, but
learning itself takes place in real time
according to tried-and-true methods
of inquiry, dialogue, practice, mistake
and correction. In short, quality education engages students directly and
intensively. Because Linfield recently
participated for the first time in
the National Survey of Student
Engagement (NSSE), allow me to
share some early reflections on our
results.
The 2004-05 NSSE was administered to over 660,000 students at
520 colleges and universities nationwide. It was targeted at first-year
students and seniors. In Linfield’s
sample, 289 first-year students and
151 seniors responded. All data
were collected and processed by
independent survey administrators,
then compared to national norms.
The report must be read with
caution, for effect size differences
were small to moderate. With this
reservation in mind, Linfield students
appear to be more engaged in tutoring or voluntarily teaching others
than were respondents at our selected
private peer colleges and at other
bachelor-level colleges nationwide.
In addition, Linfield students communicated with their teachers more
by e-mail and talked more intensively
about career plans with their faculty
than did peer students elsewhere.
With respect to the co-curriculum, Linfield students were more
likely to participate in physical fitness
activities than either their selected or
national peers. The same holds for
participating in campus organizations, publications, student government, etc. Clearly, Linfield students
learn and live in a community
supportive of many good choices.
Most notably, Linfield stands out
among national baccalaureate col-
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leges with respect to seniors who
have participated in study abroad.
The college lives up in student word
as in institutional deed to our mission
statement’s clear commitment to
honor “… the rich texture of diverse
cultures and varied ways of understanding.” We shall not slack in promoting this clear area of excellence at
Linfield College.
What of the challenges posed by
the NSSE results? Happily, negative
effect sizes are all small, save for one
that is moderate (as well as statistically
significant). The data suggest that our
students are less likely than students
at selected peer private colleges to
attend an art exhibit, dance or theatre
performance.
I relish the challenge of addressing this result. The creation of the
Arts Quadrangle on the Keck
Campus is helping us elevate the
intellectual life of the campus. The
Nicholson Library, coupled with the
Marshall Theatre, the James F. Miller
Fine Arts Center and the new music
facility now under construction, are
helping to bring the college together
to fully appreciate our outstanding
music, theatre and art programs, as
well as the wonderful readings sponsored by the library.
A liberal arts education prepares
people to be flexible in mind, heart
and soul, and become lifelong learners in order to meet the challenges
they will face in the future. The arts
and the library are at the center of
education. With our outstanding faculty members and quality student
performers in the arts, improving student attendance at such events begins
with spreading the word. I know
from firsthand experience that the
arts are as lively at Linfield as our better-appreciated programs in international study. We will promote both
opportunities with equal vigor.
Marvin Henberg
Interim President
Marvin Henberg, interim president, talks with, from left, Katie Dolph ’08 and Branden Sharp ’07 during the
student activities fair held in conjunction with orientation.
Taking hospice inside the walls
Pamela Campbell, Tamara Sanden-Maurer and
Melanie Schmid have three things in common.
They believe that no one deserves to die alone.They
all want to be trained as hospice volunteers. And they
are all inmates in the medium security unit at the
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville.
Jan Selliken, associate professor of nursing at the
Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing, has
something in common with each of them – her goal
to establish a hospice program in the Oregon prison
system.
“I could not believe that there were people dying in
prison and there was no outside community support to
assist with that,” said Selliken, who is a nurse educator,
midwife, naturopathic physician and hospice nurse.
“How can we think that anyone in prison is less
deserving of hospice than someone on the outside?”
Hospice is common today, but up until 20 years ago
there was little to help people prepare for dying.
“We had plenty to help people prepare for the birth
process, but there was nothing to help people prepare for
death,” she said. “As a society we deny death until it hits.”
Selliken already arranges clinical experiences for
Linfield nursing students at Coffee Creek Correctional
Facility and the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.
She wants to go one step further. If she can secure grant
funding, she plans to train inmates to serve as hospice
volunteers in a program at Coffee Creek.
Tougher sentencing laws, mandatory minimum sentences and rules covering compassionate releases and
paroles have resulted in an aging prison population,
Selliken said. As a result, a growing number of inmates
will die behind prison walls.
When Sanden-Maurer was diagnosed with a rare
form of cancer, she was not only terrified of dying
alone, she was terrified of dying alone in prison.
“You are in your room, isolated and alone, with no
one to help you through those last stages of life,” said
Sanden-Maurer, who is now in remission.
The need for a hospice program became clear to
Sanden-Maurer, Campbell and Schmid during the
terminal illness and death of another inmate who made
an indelible impact on each of them.
“Whether it’s in here or on the streets, dying is not
an easy process,” Campbell said. “No one should have to
die without people capable of supporting them. We
need to help move people through the process in a way
that is dignified and respectful.”
More people in prison have long-term, chronic or
terminal illnesses, Schmid said. Hospice is not only
Jan Selliken, left, and Kim Kaplin ’07, center, talk with, from left, Tamara
Sanden-Maurer, Melanie Schmid and Pam Campbell, inmates at the Coffee
Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. Selliken, associate professor of
nursing, hopes to secure grant funding to train inmates to serve as hospice
volunteers in the prison.
important to the patient, it’s a chance to allow inmates
to do something good.
“It’s an opportunity for the provider to give something
back, as well as provide something essential,” she added.
Involving students through clinicals and training can
remove the stereotype of prison inmate.
“[The students] find out we have the same needs,”
Campbell said. “We are mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts
and grandmothers. All of that is really important for
people to understand.We’ve made mistakes and we can’t
go back and change things, but we can make changes
from this point forward.”
Selliken has produced a 16-minute video that illustrates the need for a hospice program in the Oregon
prison system. If she secures funding, she and Linfield
nursing students will train inmates and medical personnel
on end-of-life care. The inmates will have the rare opportunity to perform a service for another human being and
give something back to society, Selliken said.
“Regardless of whether it’s in prison or on the outside, when you sit at the bedside of a dying person, you
get a perspective of what’s really important,” she said.
— Mardi Mileham
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Linfield Digest
Linfield Digest
2005 Legacy students
Faculty take on
leadership roles
Two Linfield College faculty
members are providing leadership for
the college this year.
Barbara Seidman has been named
interim dean of faculty. Elizabeth
Atkinson is associate dean for curriculum
and faculty development.
Seidman, professor of English and
former associate dean, replaces Marvin
Henberg, who is serving as interim president this year. A member of the faculty
since 1983, Seidman played a key role in
planning for the new library, serving as
liaison with the planning committee for
the new facility. In addition to her faculty
role, she is also coordinator of the Gender
Studies Program and is the internship
coordinator for the Department of
English. She served as associate dean of
faculty from 1995 to 2001. Her dedication and commitment to teaching is
reflected in the fact that she was twice
named the Edith Green Distinguished
Professor, in 1988 and in 2001.
Atkinson, associate professor of chemistry, has taught at Linfield since 1997. She
has served as a Faculty Member for the
21st Century with Project Kaleidoscope,
a highly competitive leadership program
sponsored by the National Science
Foundation. She also brings to the role
distinguished past service as a member
and as chairperson of the Faculty
Development Committee.
Bob McCann learned a thing or two about Linfield College from his
students during a recent class project.
He found Riley Hall once housed a two-lane bowling alley and, near Pioneer
Hall, there was a well with a hand pump and a metal cup for thirsty passers-by.
McCann, associate professor of education, and students in his Teaching Social
Studies class included these and other facts in a walking tour brochure of the
Linfield campus.The pamphlet features 11 historic buildings and a map of the core
campus, along with a short college history. It’s designed for campus visitors, future
students and those already familiar with the campus who want to learn more.
McCann said the project shows education students that history can be
taught through community resources.
“History is not just dates, facts and information,” he said. “History is alive
and embedded in buildings and places.”
In addition to learning more about Linfield, Erin Fleming ’06, who
researched Riley Hall, said the experience strengthened her teaching skills.
“Part of being a teacher is putting together research, taking visual
information and spicing it up,” she said.
Presidential search continues
Linfield again named top college
The Presidential Search Committee
planned to bring candidates to Linfield
in October for a series of meetings
on the McMinnville and Portland
Campuses and with the local community.
For updates on the progress of the
presidential search go to:
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www.linfield.edu/president_search/index.php
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Bob McCann, associate professor of education, shares some of Linfield’s colorful history as he leads a
group of students on a walking tour of campus. A new brochure provides a historical look at the college.
Tour explores college history
For the fifth consecutive year, Linfield College has been named the top
college in the western region in the Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor’s category in rankings released by the magazine U.S. News & World Report.
Linfield had the highest average freshman retention rate (84 percent),
highest average graduation rate (69 percent) and lowest student to faculty ratio
(13/1) in the western region.
“It is a continuing compliment to our dedicated faculty and staff, to our
supportive local community, and to those who sustain the college through
private philanthropy for U.S. News & World Report to recognize Linfield as the
top comprehensive bachelor’s college in the West for the fifth consecutive year,”
said Marvin Henberg, interim president.
Sixteen percent of the freshmen enrolling this fall have family members who have attended Linfield. Members of the 2005 Legacy class include front row, left to
right, Spencer Dean, Lesley Bryant, Pedro Nuñez, Seneca Walton, Janelle Davis, Emma Kemp, Kristin Burke, Samantha Bartlett, Larissa Gerig, Catherine Dolsen,
Anne Muehleck, Alicia Rojas, Anna Lehman, BrieAnn Brininstool; second row, Luke Rembold, Kimberly Malcom, Evan Hiles, Cody Standridge, Keldy Winters, Kevin
Duerr, Dustin Huffman, Dan Lever, Matt Garland, Caitlyn Nelson, Rebecca Crawley, Laura Johnson, Amie Lundquist, Laura Strahan, Rachel Logan; third row, Rachel
Warwick, Hannah Veley, Eric Blumenstein, Chris Rodgers, Tyler Morrill, Corey Proctor, Matt McCollum, Nick Elliott, Kenneth Miller, Todd Siler, Todd Peterson,
Morgan St. Jean; fourth row, Chris Schuldt, Michael Holten, Travis Ward, Geoffrey Young, Chris Renfro, Joe Robinson.
Linfield enrolls students at near-record numbers
Plenty of new faces – 654 to be
exact – were seen, as some of the
best and brightest students ever to
enroll arrived on the McMinnville
and Portland Campuses for fall
semester.
At McMinnville, 488 students
enrolled in the class of 2009. On the
Portland Campus, 111 new students
are majoring in nursing or health
sciences, with 40 more expected in
the spring.
On the McMinnville Campus,
53 percent of the new class are
women and 47 percent are men.
Eleven percent are students of color
including international students.
Students represent 273 high schools
and have an average GPA of 3.61.
Scores average 1143 for SAT and 24
for ACT. Thirty-two percent are
from the top 10 percent of their
high school class.
Members of the new class have
been involved in student government,
music, theatre, art, communications
and other high school activities.
They are also active in community
service projects such as Northwest
Medical Teams, Hospice, Special
Olympics, UNICEF, Meals on
Wheels, Red Cross and Relay for
Life, to name a few.
Many in the incoming class
have served in leadership roles.
There are 29 valedictorians, 14 student body presidents, 65 newspapers
or yearbook editors, 123 team captains and 91 club officers. Sixteen
percent are legacy students who
have had a relative attend Linfield.
On the Portland Campus,
incoming students have an average
GPA of 3.63 on prior college work.
Sixteen percent of the new students
are male, and 15 percent are students
of color. Thirty-three percent of the
transfer students have a prior bachelor’s degree and some have completed degrees at the master’s level. Areas
of study include psychology, exercise
science, business and biology.
Many of Portland’s incoming
students are working in professions
such as health care, business, technology, research and education.
Some have had the experience of
living, working or studying in
other countries and many are raising families.
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Students probe tide pools inside the ocean-worn sandstone walls of Devil's Punchbowl near Otter Rock during the DCE Shoreline Ecology course in Newport.
Cavern walls are tinged with red algae, which thrive on spray from the churning water.
Classroom on the coast
Oregon’s shoreline provides a rich setting for ecological discovery
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eaning over a tide pool in the depths of
Devil’s Punchbowl, Aubrey Clark ’05 nudges a
purple creature clinging to the side of a waterworn rock. Though her textbook describes the sea
urchin as spiny and hard-shelled, Clark wants to see
for herself.
“It looked as if it would be soft to the touch, but
quite the contrary,” she says. “It felt hard and strong,
probably to fend off the bad guys.”
For Clark and other members of the summer
Shoreline Ecology class, discoveries are plentiful during
a five-day travel course on the Oregon Coast. Led by
Ned Knight, adjunct professor of biology and environmental studies, the class spent two days at Linfield
College before trekking to Newport to explore coastal
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environments and the organisms that live there.
Just two hours from McMinnville, Newport’s open-air
classrooms give students a chance to pull on their boots
and wade through coastal environments, sometimes for
the first time. Linfield’s strong emphasis on field study,
coupled with Oregon’s rich ecological diversity, makes
travel courses an unparalleled opportunity, according to
Kareen Sturgeon, professor of biology. She teaches
Classification of Plants and Plant Communities and
guides students from western to southeastern Oregon,
tracing a route she likens to driving from the equator to
the arctic.
“We see vastly different ecosystems along the way,”
she says. “There’s no substitute for engaging in a field
experience.”
n this particular July morning, the
group rose before dawn to catch a rare minus
tide inside Devil’s Punchbowl, a giant cavern
near Newport’s Otter Rock. Normally churning with
thousands of gallons of seawater and spouting spray high
into the air, at 6 a.m. on this day, it is drained.
The morning air is damp and cool as students clamber
down a winding path to the beach and punchbowl
entrance. Inside, voices echo off cavern walls brushed
red from spray zone algae. Looking up from the
chamber floor, blue sky is framed by the bowl’s edge 40
feet above.
Students step gingerly to avoid crushing marine life
as they wander among tide pools jotting notes, taking
measurements and sketching sightings in their field
notebooks. Some use colored pencils to bring their
drawings to life.
“This guy looks like a wrinkled-up donut,” notes
Clark of an aggregated anemone, entering it in her field
book. Clark, who works in public affairs at Intel, is taking the class as her final requirement to complete her
management degree through Linfield’s Division of
Continuing Education (see sidebar, below). It’s a fitting
end to a fulfilling eight-year experience.
“I’ve seen places that I never knew existed in the
Newport area and I can't wait to return with friends
and family to point out some of my new finds,” she said.
“Being out of the classroom and actually doing and seeing
what you are learning about is absolutely great.”
After spotting an aggregated anemone clinging to the base of a rock, Aubrey
Clark ’05 (left) and Kim Taylor ’07 record their discovery in field journals
documenting the five-day class.
DCE at a glance
The Adult Degree Program through the Division
of Continuing Education is designed to help working
adults through traditional and online classes.
Students enrolled: 500+
Average years to degree: 2
Average student age: 37
Majors offered: 7 (accounting, arts and humanities,
business information systems, international business,
management, social and behavioral sciences, nursing)
Ned Knight has led the Shoreline Ecology course for 10 years,
incorporating concepts of ecology, geology and physical science
while introducing students to the natural history of the coast.
DCE centers: 8 (Albany, Astoria, Bend, Coos Bay,
Eugene, McMinnville, Portland and Salem)
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Knight wanders among the students, checking on
groups, answering questions and making discoveries of
his own. Though it’s his 10th year leading the class,
he beams after spotting a school of shiner perch in a
tide pool.
“I’ve never seen them here before,” he says with a
grin. “I never get tired of coming to these sites. I learn
something new each time.”
Knight’s enthusiasm is contagious. He says there is a
world of difference between a classroom in Murdock
Hall and a classroom in Devil’s Punchbowl.
“Everybody loves being outside,” adds Knight, who
has taught at Linfield since 1992. “And you learn so
much more by seeing, touching and feeling everything
than you can seeing it written on a blackboard.”
Many students, like Candace Keillor ’06 of
McMinnville who is studying to be a teacher, brought
friends or family members along to explore the coast
with them.
“They’re surfing while I’m looking at slimy stuff,”
she says, using a pink hand trowel to scoop up a specimen
for a closer look.
s the tide begins to inch back in, Knight
leads students a few miles up the coast to the
next site – the Siletz Bay National Wildlife
Refuge.There, hosted by Fred Seavey, United States Fish
and Wildlife Service biologist, students slosh through
marshy terrain to the slough’s edge to examine the
rebirth of a wetland. Caught in the mud’s suction, some
students find themselves bootless during the hike.
Three years ago, when Knight first brought Linfield
students to the site, giant manmade dikes separated the
bay from what was then farmland. The 100-acre preserve has since been restored to a natural estuary, a body
of water between the bay and the river where habitat
adjust to the change between salt and fresh water.
Seavey’s team, along with biologists from the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz, is using underwater video
cameras at four elevations to monitor juvenile salmon
use of the habitat and tidal channels. They've found the
salt water is changing the vegetation in and around the
estuary communities.
“This is very gratifying to see the project has been
successful,” Seavey says. The area is now available to
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Mary Sue Reynolds ’07 of Sweet
Home has a new awareness of the environment and hands-on learning after
taking the Shoreline Ecology course.
“You learn from the speakers who live
in the area and deal with the subjects day
in and day out,” says Reynolds, a coordinator
at the Linn Benton Community College
Sweet Home Center. In addition to taking
courses on location, Reynolds has enrolled
in other Linfield classes online as she pursues her bachelor’s in management. She says
the flexibility is a lifesaver.
Students help each other through marshy terrain during a hike to view an estuary restoration
“I can work on my classes at midnight
project at the Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
if I want,” she explains.
At the end of the week, Knight hopes
species including chinook and coho salmon, cutthroat
students come away with an appreciation for the diversity
trout and a variety of marine fish.
and fragility of coastal life, and also for efforts in preservaAfter lunch, students continue their coastal explotion and habitat improvement. That message hit home
ration with tours of a U.S. Coast Guard station and the
with Jonathan Stanfill ’06 of Lincoln City, for one.
Oregon Oyster Farm. Knight says the trip’s varied sites
“We are all important parts of an ecosystem and as
provide examples of how to exist cooperatively with the
a human being I have a stewardship role to fulfill,” says
environment and repair damage from past indiscretions.
Stanfill, who will earn a management degree next
“It’s also important and enlightening to see the genspring and plans to pursue graduate studies after that.
uine enthusiasm of the people carrying out these
The travel classes have been some of his favorites.
projects,” he adds.
“Going out and researching the material on locaThe class is but one of many that Linfield offers
tion gave it more depth,” he continues. “To accurately
which are relevant to today’s environmental issues,
understand shoreline ecology, you have to experience it
according to Marvin Henberg, interim Linfield presifirsthand as an explorer.”
dent. Henberg was instrumental in designing Linfield’s
environmental studies major and he continues to tout
— Laura Davis
environmental education.
“This program brings together traditional and adult
Alumni can receive a 20 percent discount on tuition
students, helping them to better understand the intricafor one Linfield Division of Continuing Education course
cies of the environment, whether on the coast, in the
each year through the Return to Learn program. For more
valley or in the mountains,” Henberg says. “The 21st
information contact DCE at 1-800-452-4176 or
century is the century of the environment.”
http://www.linfield.edu/dce/.
2006 DCE summer travel courses
Tropical Reef and Rainforest, Australia
Shakespeare in Ashland, Ashland
Shoreline Ecology, Newport
Sailing, Columbia River, Cascade Locks
Fire History of the Cascades, Jefferson Wilderness Area
Native North Americans, Columbia Gorge and
Vancouver Island
Bailey Pridgeon (left) and Kathryn Adams ‘07 use a field guide to identify an ocean plant.
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Kathryn Adams ’07 sketches in her field book at the Siletz Bay National
Wildlife Refuge.
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Babylift is pivotal moment in four lives
An event that changed the lives of four women 30
years ago in war-torn Vietnam came full circle this spring
on Linfield College’s Portland Campus.
Joyce Harrington ’08 was a young nurse on a flight to
rescue 409 Vietnamese orphans from Saigon on April 5,
1975. Also on board that plane was 8-month-old Nguyen
Thi-Ly, soon to become Elizabeth Wheeler, daughter of
Pamela Wheeler, associate professor of nursing at the
Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing. Pam
Wheeler is now Harrington’s advisor.
Joyce Harrington was 23 and working at the Hong
Kong Adventist Hospital School of Nursing in Tsuen Wan
when she was asked to serve as an escort for a planeload
of Vietnamese orphans headed to the U.S. for adoption
through Holt International Children’s Services. She was
one of 10 volunteers including one doctor and eight nurses and a crew of nine stewardesses to care for over 400
children – 300 of them under the age of 18 months. A
steady stream of babies were loaded, some even handed
over by their mothers. Many were ill, some from heat rash,
some due to the change in food and others with far more
serious illnesses. They were crammed into every available
space on a Pan Am 747 that had been filled with diapers,
bassinettes, bottles and formulas.
“None of us got any sleep during the 30-hour flight
to Seattle,” Harrington remembers. “We had to keep our
watches set to Saigon time to ensure maintaining medication and feeding schedules.When I would start to nod off
while feeding a baby, someone else would remind me
there were more who needed attention.
“I can’t begin to describe how it feels to look back on
what seemed, at the time, to be a brief side trip and get a
glimpse of the bigger picture from many different angles:
the adoptees, the adoptive parents and other volunteers on
the babylift.”
Pam Wheeler and her husband already had one
birth child when they decided they would complete
their family through adoption. They had been accepted
by Holt and were expecting their daughter to arrive
from Vietnam in June. But as the war escalated and the
fall of Saigon became imminent, their concern heightened. When the first of the babylift charters crashed in
Saigon, they were among other frantic parents calling
Holt. They finally received word on Wheeler’s birthday
that Elizabeth was arriving that Sunday at O’Hare
International in Chicago via Seattle.
“We thought she was the most gorgeous thing ever,”
Wheeler said. “She was like a little doll because she was 8
months old, but weighed less than 12 pounds.”
Although she was severely malnourished, Elizabeth had
no lingering health problems. “She’s what I call a survivor,”
Wheeler says of Elizabeth today, who works in a lab for the
American Red Cross. “She was a tough little girl.”
While talking with Harrington last spring about her
experiences,Wheeler realized that she could have been on
the same plane as Beth.
“Joyce showed me some photos and there is a photo
that looks like Beth,” Wheeler said. “It’s just the smallest
world.”
Joyce Harrington ‘08 with one of the 409 Vietnamese orphans on a plane out
of Saigon on April 5, 1975.
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Becky Boehne, associate
professor of nursing, also
played a small role in what
was known as Operation
Babylift.
Boehne had no direct
connection with Elizabeth
Wheeler, but she did spend
May 5, 1975, at Fort Lewis
near
Tacoma,Wash., caring for
Becky Boehne, circa 1975
Vietnamese orphans. The
children were among the last to be evacuated and were
later flown to France for adoption. Boehne, then a senior
nursing student at Pacific Lutheran University, found herself in charge of all operations for some 100 children. She
administered medications while volunteers were assigned
as caregivers, changing diapers, feeding and playing with
the children.
“It was chaos,” Boehne remembers. “I couldn’t figure
out what meds were supposed to go to what children, so
I tried to create medication records so they would have
some kind of record and some consistency.”
With 409 orphans on board, the children and babies were strapped into
seats, bassinets and every available space on board the Pan Am flight.
Even though she had just a small role in the entire airlift, taking care of those children was really an experience of
a lifetime, Boehne said.“I sometimes wonder whatever happened to those kids, or this one little child named Dubec.
My part was just a little snippet, just an eight- or nine-hour
day. But I hoped I helped those kids in some small way.”
30 years later, Elizabeth Wheeler, center, is a young married woman who works in a laboratory for the American Red Cross. Those
who helped in getting her safely to the U.S. were, from left, Joyce Harrington ‘08, and Pam Wheeler, her mother. Although Becky
Boehne wasn't involved in Elizabeth's flight, she did assist with one of the last babylift flights out of Vietnam.
— Mardi Mileham
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Faculty Profile
Faculty Profile
Balancing skills and creativity
Nils Lou offers some advice to Molly Miller ‘07 during a class in the James F. Miller
Fine Arts Center.
Nils Lou may be an art professor, but he claims he
doesn’t teach art.
He says he is more of a gardener in his Linfield
College studio classroom. He does some weeding, adds a
little fertilizer and then watches with amazement at what
his students grow.
“Being creative is about surprising yourself,” Lou said.
“It’s about being playful, and taking internal risks.Teaching is
about creating a space for the students where they basically
learn by themselves. I tell my students two things: ‘This is a
class about failing because when you take a risk and you fail,
you are more likely to analyze what went wrong than if you
had been successful.The other thing I want you to realize is
that I’m being paid to teach, but it’s the last thing I do
because I can’t teach you. It’s impossible.’”
Lou is anything but a fraud. A professor of art at
Linfield since 1987, he has been a working artist for more
than 50 years, constantly stretching himself and exploring
new techniques and avenues of creativity. His work can be
found in over 30 public and institutional collections as
well as private collections. He is the author of dozens of
publications, including The Art of Firing, a ceramics book
now in its fourth edition. He has mounted numerous
exhibitions, including six in 2004 alone. Over 20 years
ago, he and two other artists built a replica of an authentic
8th century Korean anagama, a single chambered, wood
fired pottery kiln, which is still used today. To add to his
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achievements, he was named this year’s Edith Green
Distinguished Professor for his strong commitment to the
education of his students.
Although Lou teaches primarily in ceramics and
three-dimensional design, he is also a sculptor and painter.
His latest collaborations are with Wisconsin artist Karen
Terpstra, in which they combine the female figure and the
horse in ceramics, paintings, drawings and large sculpture.
After completing his bachelor’s and master’s at
University of Michigan, Lou taught at Hamline University
in Minnesota from 1961 to 1970 and then worked as a studio potter full-time, first in Minnesota and later in rural
Willamina. When a full-time teaching position opened at
Linfield in 1987, he was eager to get back into the classroom.
“I always liked connecting with the students,” Lou
said. “When you are a studio potter, it really limits your
creativity because you start thinking about product instead
of process.”
Lou firmly believes that art cannot be taught.“We certainly have composition rules and processes we discuss with
students.We can talk about balance, we can talk about light,
dark, texture and all kinds of things. But they are only
useful when they are handled in some unique way.”
Teaching art is a balance between building foundational skills and pushing students to create authentic art vs.
ordinary art.
“Ordinary art is the art of imitation, with a product in
mind,” Lou said. “The authentic is something that comes
from inside and it develops because there is attention to
process. The medium speaks, the clay speaks, the paint
speaks. It says choose me. And what happens is something
fresh, new, innovative and original. I want students to
recognize the difference.”
Lou can easily document his growth and development as an artist over the past 50 years. His art most often
changes as he seeks the elusive power of connecting with
another person.
“When you make something authentic, it has the
power to connect in this quantum way to another person,
to their consciousness. If it is powerful enough, they reel
in the impact of it because it connects, it evokes memory,
it evokes something inside them. It's not necessarily why
artists make art, but it is one of the reasons. The other is
that we are fundamentally makers of things. We like to
assemble, we like to organize and we like to put things
together.That’s what composition is, there is a rightness to
its organization.”
– Mardi Mileham
Going above and beyond for Linfield
For Brenda DeVore Marshall, life in the theatre began
as a blue forget-me-not.
She was six and sang in the class operetta.“My debut!”
she said.
It was a sign of things to come. Marshall, professor
of theatre and communication arts, has spent a good part
of her life in the theatre. This fall, she begins her 13th
year as department chair, first for the Department of
Communication and now for the Department of
Theatre and Communication Arts. For her service to
Linfield, she earned this year’s Samuel I. Graf Faculty
Achievement Award, given each year to a faculty member who has performed some outstanding achievement
beyond his or her regular duties.
Marshall is well-rounded and excels in the three main
roles the college expects of its faculty: teaching, service
and scholarship, according to Marvin Henberg, Linfield
interim president.
“She’s gone above and beyond the call of duty in
every aspect of her career,” Henberg said.
Since joining the faculty in 1987, Brenda and her
husband, Ty, professor of theatre arts, have been instrumental in shaping the Linfield theatre program. Not only
has she helped to develop the department’s curriculum,
she played a leading role in the design of Ford Hall and
Marshall Theatre, from planning through opening.
But her impact is not just limited to the theatre. She
directed the forensics program for 14 years, developed the
communication arts minor, provided leadership in the
development of new majors in communication arts and
intercultural communication, managed the speaking
center, became the first woman to serve as chair of the
college’s Faculty Executive Council and served as Title IX
officer and chair of the Experiential Learning Task Force.
She is also an accomplished author, co-editing with
Molly Mayhead Navigating Boundaries, The Rhetoric of
Women Governors (2000) and co-authoring Women’s
Political Discourse: A Twenty-first Century Perspective, which
will be out this fall. They are now working on a third
book, Women’s Political Autobiography as Historical Narrative
and Political Inspiration.
The secret to Marshall's accomplishment? Long days,
usually 12 to 18 hours, and an intense work ethic instilled
by her parents. But curiosity may be her driving force.
“I have very eclectic interests,” said Marshall, who
plays bassoon and enjoys exploring ideas in the sciences
and social sciences in addition to the arts. “My involvement in various activities occurs because I’m genuinely
interested in them.”
Of all the hats she wears, teaching continues to be her
favorite. Marshall encourages active involvement in the
classroom and urges students to try new things without
fear of failure.
“The day I stop being excited about learning I should
quit teaching,” said Marshall, who was named the Edith
Green professor in 1992.“I see learning as a real adventure
in which I become the guide for the students. I map out
a path and we start down it. We always get to the place I
intend, but we sometimes take different routes.”
In 1999, Marshall, along with other women faculty
members, helped establish the gender studies minor and
continues to team teach the capstone course with Barbara
Seidman, professor of English and interim dean of faculty.
As her work in the feminist arena progresses, Marshall said
she’s learned the importance for women to make their
voices heard and for men to see females who can lead and
express themselves.
“I hope I have been a mentor to students and have
illustrated some of the ways one’s voice, male or female,
can be heard,” she said. “It’s hard to tell students they
should be involved if you’re not involved. That’s why I do
what I do.”
– Laura Davis
Brenda DeVore Marshall (right), shown here with Katie Dolph ’08 in the Ford
Hall design lab, earned the Samuel I. Graf Faculty Achievement Award for her
dedication to Linfield.
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A journey of
a lifetime
Juan Manuel Gómez is a true
pilgrim.
On a recent journey, he
traced the footsteps of thousands
before him dating back to the 9th
century. He covered 1,000 kilometers from Seville to Santiago
de Compostela, Spain, over 43
days, with nothing but a backpack
and sleeping bag. While his quest
was not religious, it was spiritual
and emotional. He deepened his
knowledge of Spanish history,
art, architecture and culture. He
learned to rely on the kindness of
One of the many statues of St. James strangers and to take one day at a
that Juan Manuel Gómez encountered time. His journey was a pivotal
on his journey.
moment in his life.
According to Dante, there
are three types of pilgrims: the “palmieri,” those who go
to Jerusalem; the “romei,” those who visit Rome; and
the “peregrini,” those who have been to the sepulchre of
St. James in Galicia, Spain. They, like James, are true pilgrims because they are away from their homeland, visiting
the grave of one who rests outside his homeland. James,
the apostle who preached in Galicia, was beheaded in
Palestine, but his body, placed in a boat by his disciples
arrived pilgrim-like on Spain’s Northwest Coast.
Beginning in the 9th century, his tomb became a place for
pilgrimage and the cathedral erected on that spot has been
visited by millions throughout the centuries.
As an associate professor of Spanish at Linfield, Gómez
teaches not only language, but also the history, culture and
literature of Spain. His interest in the pilgrimage was
sparked during his first sabbatical while researching the
Muslim influence on Spain's history and culture. He
became intrigued by the references to St. James (Santiago
in Spanish), the patron saint of Spain, who, according to
legend, was instrumental in helping the Spanish finally
defeat the Moors in the 15th century.
Although several paths lead pilgrims to Santiago de
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Juan Manuel Gómez climbing a steep portion of the trail he followed. Some
parts were rugged, with severe inclines and fences or trees blocking the way.
ing from Seville in southern Spain. Because he traveled
during February and March, solitude was his companion
for a large part of the journey. He was alone on the trail
for the first 21 days, often encountering no one between
stops. Of those he did meet, most were Spanish, although
at various times he walked with pilgrims from France,
Switzerland and Germany.
“Most of the people who travel are not religious,”
Gómez said. “They do it mostly for the experience of the
journey, the history, the art or the culture.”
Gómez walked across the wide plains of southern
Spain, over low hills and a high plateau. He traveled
through hills covered with heather and into an area that
resembles Northwest Oregon. He walked through groves
of chestnut trees and centuries-old vineyards. The farther
north he traveled, the less solitary the land became. Houses
and villages were more numerous and he encountered
more people who were eager to talk, to learn where he
was from, and perhaps to exchange a little gossip.
He learned quickly that a walking stick was essential.
“Sometimes you are on a trail that is narrow and
climbing and you need it for support,” he said. “You also
need it to keep away dogs. One time, a dog came after me
and if I had not had the stick, I would have been bitten.”
He not only encountered an occasional hostile dog,
but also pigs, usually restrained, and cattle, which occasionally were not. At least twice, he opted to jump a fence
rather than confront threatening bulls.
He had ample time for his thoughts.
“I thought of home and why I was doing this,” he
said. “I am spiritual and religious and believe in the inter-
The road built by the Romans is still visible and often the trail follows it. There are a number of Roman
bridges still in use throughout the country.
cession of saints, but I was not going to Santiago in search
of a miracle.”
Whenever Gómez became lost or uncertain, someone
was always there to help. At a roundabout, when he
couldn’t figure out what direction to take, a gentleman
stopped to give him directions. In Salamanca, when he
had no idea how to find the local inn for pilgrims, a
woman stopped him and his companions, asked if they
were pilgrims and gave them the number to call. A restaurant owner fed them and refused to take their money.
The cathedral at Santiago de Compostela.
“This is something special,” Gómez said. “You always
find the people at the right time. And that’s one of those
things you cannot overlook. The other thing is that people treat you very well, whether in a small town or a metropolitan area.You have those experiences and you think
‘this will never happen again.’ But it does.”
Gómez was surprised at the intensity of his emotion
when he reached the end of his journey. At the cathedral
in Santiago, he walked through the stunning Gate of
Gloria portico, and touched the Tree of Jesse, where the
Markers along the trail
in Galicia mark the
direction to the journey's end. Galicia is the
province in which St.
James is said to have
preached before he
returned to Jerusalem
and was martyred.
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Rebuilding an impoverished region
A pilgrim touches the Tree
of Jesse at the Cathedral
in Santiago. The pillar is
worn from the touch of
the millions who have
made the pilgrimage
from across Europe and
around the world.
hands of millions before have left their prints. He tapped
the forehead of Maestro Mateo, the builder of the gate. He
walked to the altar of St. James, under which lies the saint’s
tomb, and gave thanks for all who had helped him on his
journey – those who gave directions, provided food and
housing and offered friendship to a stranger. He placed
his hand on the statue of St. James, marking the end
of his journey. Twice he was nearly overcome with
emotion – when he received his certificate, recording the
completion of his pilgrimage, and when they announced
it at mass the following day.
All along his journey, he encountered statues of St.
James, always dressed as a pilgram, and examples of the
influence the pilgrims have had on the history and culture
of Spain.
“Santiago is a place where so many events have taken
place,” Gómez said. “This is a place that has linked Europe
with Spain. Santiago has been, in a sense, a meeting of
cultures, where you see the Romanesque, the Gothic, the
Muslim influences. Spain received this influx of art,
writing and music because of this intercourse of culture.”
Since his return, Gómez has continued his research
into how the figure of St. James is used as a conqueror, an
intercessor in battles. Much of what he has seen and
learned, including some 2,000 digital images, is bringing
history and culture to life in his classes. His life is richer for
having had the experience.
“I was 60 years old and I had never walked 20 kilometers in one day, or maybe in my entire life,” he said with
a laugh. “I walk a mile every day, but that’s with my dog.
But 20 or 40 kilometers a day for 39 days? I just feel that
I’ve done something for myself that will stay with me for
the rest of my life. I have accomplished many things in my
life, but this is one of those main pivotal events.”
— Mardi Mileham
A self portrait of Juan Manuel
Gómez. Although the weather
was unusually dry, there is snow
in the background. He had only
two days of snow during his
entire 43-day journey.
A fortress, built to defend the town of El Real de la Jara,
near Seville, against the frequent Portuguese attacks.
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When Mujib Kamawal’s
family fled to Pakistan
from their native
Afghanistan, they left a
lush, vibrant region. When
they returned for a visit
years later, the Kama district was a wasteland. They
knew they had to help.
Mujib ’06, now a
Linfield chemistry major,
was born three years after
Mujib Kamawal ‘06, left, with one of
his family escaped the
the many cousins he visited in
atrocities and killings of
Afghanistan in January.
the Soviet invasion in
1981. In 1985 when he
was a year old, his family moved to Portland, where his
parents still live.
But the Kamawals could not forget the people of
their homeland. When he returned to Afghanistan in
1996 and 2001, Mujib’s father, Jamil, was shocked by the
devastation. The land was barren. Only poverty and
illiteracy flourished.
“I had this vision that I wanted to see, that I could help
our people in a constructive way,” Jamil Kamawal said.
With modest personal resources, Kamawal, a land
surveyor for Washington County, established the nonprofit Kama Relief Corp. in 2001. Education is its primary mission.
“Our goal is to provide an education to every child
there,” Kamawal said.
The organization has established three schools and
sponsors activities at three others, as well as some adult
classes at a community center.
Kama Relief also runs a food-distribution program
that has helped about 90 needy families, including
widows, orphans and people with disabilities, Kamawal
said.A small stipend is paid to families who take in orphans,
to eliminate the need for building orphanages, he added.
Kamawal also is trying to establish a health clinic in
the Kama district, whose residents cannot even afford
transportation to medical care. “The roads have been
heavily damaged, so it can take two hours or longer to
travel 20 or 30 miles,” he said.
Kamawal and his wife, Mahbooba, visit Afghanistan
annually at their own expense. He is proud that the taxexempt organization runs on a lean budget with little
spent on administration. Kamawal said its annual budget
has ranged from about $20,000 to $40,000. Most of the
money, he said, comes from donations collected in
Portland’s Muslim community during Ramadan observances.
Mujib, along with his four brothers and his sister, has
visited the Kama district and assists with the relief efforts.
He designed Kama Relief ’s Website and helps with fundraising.
In January, Mujib visited Afghanistan to witness the
results of those efforts. He saw a new schoolhouse nearing
completion and “moved a lot of rocks,” filling a floor that
would later have cement poured over it. He also helped
distribute food.
“It’s really a horrible situation,” said Mujib, who had
not been there since age 11. “There’s no clean water, and
a lot of people don’t have enough food. It hurts to see all
those people – little kids who don’t have enough to eat or
drink. We do what we can and hope it’s enough. Usually,
it’s not.”
Mujib is applying to medical schools and hopes to
become a surgeon or a pediatrician. But he also wants to
remain active in Kama Relief. “I definitely want to be an
integral part of it as I grow older,” he said. “I hope to get
involved more and more.”
For more information on Kama Relief, visit
www.kamarelief.org.
— Beth Rogers Thompson
Jamil Kamawal speaks to local residents before distributing food. He is in front of the
community center his family's non-profit organization helped build in the district in
which he was raised and from which he fled in 1981.
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50 years as ‘voice of the Wildcats’
Wildcat football fans are familiar
with The Streak – 49 consecutive
winning seasons.
But they may not be familiar
with another football streak – for most
of the last 50 years, Linfield faculty
members have served as the “voice of
the Wildcats.” Craig Singletary,
professor emeritus of communication, began broadcasting for the local
commercial radio station in 1956, the
year The Streak began. Ted Desel ’61,
professor of speech and drama from
1970 to 1987, broadcast the games
on KSLC, the student radio station,
for a few years. Hansen, vice president for student affairs, dean of students and professor of economics
during the week, has spent his fall
weekends as the voice of the Wildcats
for somewhere around 30 years.
Although Singletary wasn’t at
Linfield when he began broadcasting
Wildcat games, he left the radio station in 1960 to accept a faculty position at Linfield, but continued to
broadcast the games until 1965. His
voice can still be heard during home
games. Since the mid-1970s he has
served as the public address announcer at all home games.
One of Singletary’s most vivid
memories is a 1964 playoff game
against Concordia on a bitterly cold
day in Fargo, N.D. Singletary, who
was broadcasting from a toasty warm
press box, had scheduled one interview at halftime with Linfield
President Harry Dillin. But dignitaries, including the governor of
Minnesota, head of NAIA and president of Concordia College, all
flocked into the press box to get
warm, so Singletary interviewed
them all. Another interesting fact
from that game: Former Linfield
head coach Ed Langsdorf played that
day for Concordia.
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broadcasting the game or not. “This
gets me there at someone else’s
expense, takes care of my transportation, and occasionally I get a meal
out of it,” he laughs. “I enjoy watching the game and being a part of it
in the sense that I get to talk about
it. My wife worries that I do playby-play at everything we attend,
whether it’s athletics or not.”
Hansen, who will be inducted
into the Linfield Athletic Hall of
Fame in November for his work as
voice of the Wildcats, started as color
commentator and switched to playby-play. After taking a four-year
break in the mid- to late-’90s, he
returned to color commentary with
veteran broadcaster Darrell Aune.
One bonus of his job is getting
to know players in the classroom
and on the playing field. His position at Linfield gives him an edge
Craig Singletary, Dave Hansen and Ted Desel ‘61, from left, all current or former faculty members, have
served as the voice of the Wildcats over the last 50 years. Hansen has the longest tenure, starting “sometime in the early ‘70s” and continuing today.
Desel did some color and playby-play for KSLC, primarily during
the Ad Rutschman ’54 era.
“My career was very short lived,
probably with good reason,” he said
with a laugh. But that didn't end his
affiliation with the football team.
From 1975 until Rutschman retired
in 1991, Desel drove the team bus to
nearly all the road games.
“I got to see a lot of Linfield
football,” he added. “There were a lot
of interesting experiences being with
the team like that over the years.”
Hansen says if he were not
broadcasting the Linfield Wildcats
games, he’d probably be providing
commentary in the stands, much to
the entertainment – or chagrin – of
his fellow fans.
Hansen’s career in the broadcast
booth had a dubious start when he
teamed up with Desel for a half-time
show.
“We didn’t have anything to talk
about so we described a half-time
extravaganza out on the field, with a
marching band that spelled out
Linfield in script and the landing of a
hot air balloon,” Hansen recalls.
None of it was actually taking place
anywhere but in their imaginations.
An admitted sports fanatic,
Hansen is up at 6 a.m. or earlier on
fall Saturdays to head to Ashland or
Tacoma or Spokane, whether he is
on providing information to the
listeners.
“I might have some inside information about a player outside the
football realm,” he said. “I have an
opportunity to mix with the students
in a different setting.”
He began collecting material for
this season right after the 2004 championship game. His preparation
includes taking the roster to bed and
seeing how far down he can name
player, position, number and hometown without looking.
His memories of his years in the
booth are both funny and poignant.
There was the time he had to rent a
room for just a few hours in
Bellingham, Wash., in order to find a
phone line over which to broadcast.
Or the time at Menlo when he and
Aune had to string about 500 feet of
telephone line from Menlo’s brand
new football stadium to a residence
hall because Menlo officials had neglected to install phone lines. Or the
time, when broadcasting a basketball
game, the radio station sent a taxi
across McMinnville to inform him
that the line had been pulled and
Hansen had been broadcasting to no
one for 20 minutes.
But the constant throughout
Hansen’s broadcasting career – in
addition to The Streak – has been
the strong tradition of the football
program.
“The coaching focus of using
the football field as a classroom
experience for the students has
remained fairly constant,” he said.
“I think success breeds success and I
think that accounts for how well we
do here.”
— Mardi Mileham
“The Streak” closes in on golden anniversary
Four coaches, four national championships, 382
wins and thousands of dedicated young athletes.
It’s been a recipe for success for Linfield College
football for 49 years. Since 1956, Linfield has produced winning football teams, fielding squads with
better-than-.500 records and doing so without the
benefit of scholarships, letters of intent or spring
practice. And with one more winning season, it will
be the program’s 50th in a row. The Wildcats could
secure the season as early as Oct. 15 when they take
on Southern Oregon University.
The Wildcats stand alone as the most consistently
successful college football program in the country.
Linfield established itself as college football’s all-time
leader in consecutive winning seasons in 1998,
coming from behind to defeat Willamette University
20-19 and clinching a 43rd straight winning season
to move ahead of Harvard and Notre Dame.
Four coaches have widened The Streak, including
Paul Durham ’36, Ad Rutschman ’54, Ed Langsdorf
and Jay Locey, who was one year old when the 1956
Wildcats launched the series. Since then, Linfield has
captured four national championships, in 1982, 1984,
1986 and 2004.
The secrets of the program’s success? Quite simply, it’s the stability of the coaching staff, a daunting
work ethic and a long-standing commitment to
make everyone associated with the program a better
person.
The winning seems to take care of itself.
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‘Cat Tracks
‘Cat Tracks
Eight athletes, one team to be inducted into Hall of Fame
Paterson’s dream
coming true
As the pen touched the paper Tommy
Paterson ’05 felt his life change.
Years of hard work and a life-long
dream were summed up in the contract
before him. In early June, Paterson signed as
a professional free agent with the
Philadelphia Phillies. Hours later he was on
his way to Clearwater, Fla.
“I signed my contract at 10 p.m. on a
Tuesday night,” said Paterson, who earned a bachelor’s
degree in finance. “I had to be on a flight at 6 a.m. the
next morning.”
Paterson honed his baseball skills at Linfield where
he was named first team All-American by the American
Baseball Coaches Association. He hit a career .367 and
ranks fourth on Linfield’s all-time list for runs batted,
117, and bases stolen, 38.
“Tommy was the model player at Linfield,” said
Scott Carnahan ’73, head Linfield baseball coach and
athletic director. “He had a strong commitment to
improvement and was the type of player that would be
the first one to practice and the last one to leave the
field.”
Once in Florida, Paterson spent three months living
and breathing baseball. He played for the Gulf Coast
League Phillies, a short-season team to introduce firstyear players to professional baseball. His day began at 6
a.m. with team practice, a game at noon and an afternoon workout lasting until 5.
Although the schedule and 110 degree heat index
was a difficult adjustment, it was the business side of
professional baseball that surprised Paterson the most.
He signed a baseball card contract, in addition to the
playing contract, and underwent more than eight drug
tests for steroids.
Paterson also faced cultural challenges, encountering a language barrier with Latin American teammates.
“At Linfield it was easy to form a team bond
because we attended the same classes and lived and practiced together,” said Paterson, who is the 36th Linfield
player to sign a professional baseball contract. “I found it
difficult to form a strong team bond in Florida because
we spoke different languages and people were continuously coming and going from the team.”
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The Linfield College Athletics Hall of Fame will
induct eight individuals, a national championship relay
squad, and the first football team to compete in the
national playoffs at the eighth annual ceremony, Saturday,
Nov. 5, at Linfield. The banquet will follow an alumnijunior varsity football game slated for 1 p.m.
Athletes being inducted include Steve Lopes ’84, a
former All-American offensive tackle and member of two
NAIA national championship football teams; Ed Kama
’81, a three-time all-conference offensive tackle and first
team NAIA All-American in 1980; Lisa (Lind) Prevedello
’89, a Northwest Conference champion in three events
and current Linfield record holder in the high jump; Joe
Robillard ’69, a four-year all-conference defensive back
who ranks second on Linfield’s career interceptions list;
Cliff Saxton ’52, a four-year starter on both offense and
defense and a NAIA All-American for Hall of Fame football coach Paul Durham ’36; Alan Schmidlin ’80, a first
Tommy Paterson ‘05
Paterson used the dynamics of the new team to his
advantage. He focused on his own skills and made
adjustments to improve.
“Tommy just has such a strong desire to play and
succeed at the professional level,” said Scott Brosius ’02,
former New York Yankees third baseman and assistant
Linfield baseball coach.
Now back in McMinnville for the off-season,
Paterson will train with the Wildcat baseball team and
stick to the strict workout regimen given to him by the
GCL Phillies. He will return to Florida in February to
begin spring training. He is confident about his future
in baseball after his summer experience.
“My goal has always been to play in the major
leagues,” said Paterson. “I came away from this summer
realizing I have the drive and perseverance to accomplish my goal.”
Paterson has a legion of fans rooting him on,
including Brosius, who spent 11 seasons playing with
the Oakland A’s and the New York Yankees. He was also
the most valuable player of the 1998 World Series.
“I know I felt this and I know Tommy feels it now,
that if you can just get one shot to prove what you can
do, that would be enough,” said Brosius. “Then, even if
you fail, you know you have taken the chance and made
the effort.”
— Laura Graham ’07
team NAIA All-America quarterback who passed for
more than 5,000 career yards; and Keith Lazell, Stewart
Minors, Carl Shaw and Randy Carter, all Class of ’76 and
members of Linfield’s NAIA national championship
4x400 yard relay squad. The quartet continues to hold
Linfield and Northwest Conference records in the mile
relay.
Linfield’s 1961 Camellia Bowl football team, which
played for the NAIA national championship and was the
first Linfield squad to compete in the national playoffs, is
also being enshrined.
Earning induction into the Linfield Athletics Hall of
Fame for meritorious service are Dave Hansen, the
Wildcats’ football and basketball radio announcer for
about 30 years and current vice president for student services and dean of students, and longtime Linfield supporter
Del Smith, trustee of the college and owner of Evergreen
Aviation.
Learning time management: Susan O’Meara
Susan O’Meara ’08, women’s
basketball and statistician for
baseball, soccer and volleyball
Hometown: Sonoma, Calif.
Major: Exercise Science
Being an athlete at Linfield,
“In college you have to study
way more but the time management skills I learn as an athlete help me be successful. Even though practices are more
intense than high school and I have to focus on school as
well, I enjoy it. I am a more effective person if I have lots
of things to do.”
Being an athletic statistician, “I became a statistician after a teammate asked me to fill in and then the
athletic department needed a statistician for the baseball season. It was all about knowing the right people.
I also had experience from high school when I was
the statistician for my brother’s sports teams. I enjoy
the job because it gives me the opportunity to watch
all of the other sports.”
Chose Linfield because, “I knew I wanted a
small school with a strong program in my intended
major. Even though I am from California, all the
small schools are in the Los Angeles area and that
was not where I wanted to be. I also looked at bigger California schools and they were just not right.
But when I walked on campus at Linfield I felt,
‘This is it.’”
Studying exercise science, “Since seventh grade I
have had a trapped nerve in my knee. Over the years
it has been misdiagnosed and I have tried every treatment for it. I soon found that physical therapy was
the only thing that helped. This combined with my
interest in the human body attracted me to physical
therapy.”
Favorite Professor: Laura Kenow (human health and
performance). “I took the class Prevention and
Treatment of Athletic Injuries with Laura Kenow and I
enjoyed it. I found that the class related to me as an athlete but I also found it interesting because of what I am
studying. She was an energetic professor, which brought
me into the subject even more.”
Plans after graduation, “I want to go into physical
therapy, which would require graduate school. But I
have also thought about becoming a sports trainer for a
high school team or going into coaching.”
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Alumni News
Alumni News
Alumni Leadership Council begins work
Linfield College alumni have a
new voice.
The Alumni Leadership Council,
the collective voice of Linfield’s 19,000
alumni, met for the first time in
September when 14 members convened on campus for the first of three
annual meetings.They will gather again
in February and June.The new council
replaces the alumni association executive board as the liaison to the Linfield
administration and board of trustees.
In addition to promoting Linfield
and advising the college of alumni
concerns, council members will assist
the alumni office in planning and
implementing alumni programs,
according to Lisa Garvey ’86, director
of alumni relations.
“This group represents a good
cross section of our alumni population,” she said. “I’m looking forward to
working with them to prioritize
programming and make our events
the best they can be.”
Alumni directory
update continues
Variety of events planned for alumni
Alumni can stay involved with Linfield College this fall through
various events.
For alumni in the California area, there will be a barbecue prior
to the football game on Oct. 29 when the Wildcats take on Menlo
College in Atherton, Calif. Cost is $10. The festivities begin at 11:30
a.m., with the game starting at 12:30 p.m. Register by Oct. 24.
New members of the Alumni Leadership Council are, front, from left, Leland “Lee” Paulson ’67 of Aurora,
Colo.; Jeanine Ishii ’03 of Livermore, Calif.; Heather Thompson ’01 of Portland; Shannon Malcom ’06 of
McMinnville; Christina (Waddell) Lund ‘93 of Cottage Grove; Ray Olson ‘54 of Vancouver, Wash.; back, Dana
(Dancer) Vandecoevering ‘83 of Forest Grove; Jim Franklin ’75 of Shorewood, Minn.; Steve Marshall ’86 of
West Linn; Gordon Kaufman ’62 of Mill Creek, Wash.; chair Chris Tjersland ’86 of Vancouver, Wash.; Glenn
Kuhn ’71 of Camas, Wash.; Mike Martinis ’74 of Salem; and Matthew Vance ’99 of Portland.
Recruit a Future Wildcat
Amy Baltzell ’89, Sherwood
“It was so easy. It takes two minutes to do. Alumni can make
sure Linfield College continues its line of outstanding individuals.
The Recruit a Future Wildcat program offers students a
connection to a place where they might not know anyone.”
Ben Los ’08, Lake Oswego
“It expanded my interest in Linfield College. Amy gave me
a push to help me move along.”
Waive the application fee for a prospective student by visiting
or calling the Office of Admission at 800-640-2287.
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Application deadlines: Nov. 15 for early action, Feb. 15 for regular decision.
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A reception for alumni and families, planned in conjunction
with the exhibit “Hesse: A Princely German Collection,” will be held
Nov. 10 in the newly renovated Portland Art Museum. The exhibit
will feature antiquities, decorative arts and paintings from the
German dynasty. Peter Richardson, professor of German, Gudrun
Hommel, associate professor of German, and Brian Winkenweder,
assistant professor of art history, will provide a brief history of the
time period represented in the exhibit. Cost is $20 or $15 for children under 12. The reception will begin at 5 p.m. and the exhibit
will open at 6:30. Register by Nov. 4.
Join other alumni on Nov. 12 when the Wildcat football team
faces Willamette University. Meet at the Ram - Big Horn Brewery,
515 12th St., SE, Salem, for no-host happy hour appetizers and beverages. The football game begins at 5 p.m. Register by Nov. 10.
Alumni are invited to a holiday reception Dec. 3 from 7 to 9 p.m.
at the Pittock Mansion. Mingle with classmates while touring the
turn-of-the-century mansion, which is fully decorated in a Christmas
theme. The mansion is located at 3229 NW Pittock Drive in Portland.
Refreshments will be provided. Register by Nov. 28.
Reconnecting with
college classmates will
soon be easier, thanks
to the new Linfield College
alumni directory.
The printed directory, which
contains alumni home addresses,
phone numbers, email addresses and
employment information, is updated
every five years. The new edition
of the directory, due out next
summer, will be organized alphabetically, geographically and by
class. Representatives of PCI: The
Data Company contacted alumni to
update their information by email
and phone calls throughout the
summer. More than 9,300 alumni
have responded with updates.
Alumni can update personal
information through a mailing that
will be sent this month, or by
contacting the Linfield Office of
Alumni Relations at 503-883-2492
or PCI at 1-800-982-1589.
Alumni can purchase the directory in either hard copy or compact disc
form by contacting PCI.
Alumni information:
503-883-2492 • alumni@linfield.edu
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New and improved alumni Website to launch
You asked for improvements and now
they are ready!
The Linfield College alumni Website has
been given a facelift. In response to alumni
suggestions, the site has been re-worked to
enhance communication.
The improved modules, scheduled to
launch later this fall, include a new online directory and
career networking components. Alumni will receive a letter
containing access information for the updated site.
The site updates will allow alumni to control all
preferences related to their personal information. This
means the new site will be completely user driven.
Log on to www.linfield.edu/alumni to check
out other improvements including e-cards, alumnispecific links and fun facts about Wildcat alumni.
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Pryor aids tsunami-ravaged region
The children touched Thomas Pryor ’96 the most.
After all, he had left his own baby daughter in Arizona
when he boarded the U.S. Navy’s Mercy hospital ship off
the shores of tsunami-ravaged Indonesia.
Pryor, a registered nurse, is a lieutenant commander in
the U.S. Public Health Service. He works for one of its
agencies, the Indian Health Service, most recently in the
intensive-care unit at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center.
He spent the month of February with a medical team
working to relieve the suffering inflicted by the monster
wave that slammed into southern Asia in December,
killing an estimated 221,100 people.
It was an unprecedented international relief effort,
Pryor said: one month, compared with the normal twoweek deployment for such emergency aid, and the first joint
operation of the U.S. Navy and Project HOPE volunteers.
Amid the chaos and destruction there were political sensitivities: Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim nation, and
the Americans did not want to force themselves on the government. Civil strife compounded their safety concerns.
Banda Aceh’s ruined University Hospital served as a
kind of staging area. The first crisis for the Mercy staff
arrived as a small boy with a burst appendix was flown out
to the ship because the hospital could not treat him.
The next morning, a 12-year-old boy went into
respiratory failure. He had a severe lung infection, aspirate
pneumonia, caused by swallowing contaminated water.
The boy had nearly drowned, then floated on a log in the
ocean for two days before he was found. The rest of his
immediate family was killed. Pryor nicknamed him
“Harapan,” Indonesian for “hope.”
Since he had some pediatric experience, Pryor
became Harapan’s primary attendant, working 12- to 14hour days. Finally, after a week, the boy was able to breathe
without assistance.
Soon after, Pryor went ashore and visited the hospital’s rebuilt pediatric unit.
Thomas Pryor ‘96 with “Harapan,”
who nearly drowned in the tsunami
and lost his entire family.
1940-49
Charles Rowell ’43 recently
moved to Napa, Calif., where he is
an avid golfer.
Meridith Gaskill ’45 of
Kirkland,Wash., volunteers at Sibling
House Foundation, Evergreen Hospice
and Emergency Feeding Program.
1950-59
A view of the beach front in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, during Thomas Pryor’s work
there in February.
There, he found a 7-year-old girl in similar respiratory
distress. While arranging for her transfer to the ship, he
noticed several very ill babies about the age of his daughter,
Audrey. “That’s when I really felt the heart tugs, because I
recognized that in my efforts in helping one, there were two
or three others who didn’t get my help that day,” he said.
Despite the devastation and limited medical resources,
there were signs of hope. “Those that got antibiotics, of
whatever kind – it was amazing to see how rapidly they got
better,” Pryor said, adding that their response was partly
because the Indonesians, unlike most Americans, rarely get
such drugs.“Some of our basic antibiotics that we hardly ever
use anymore were very effective and powerful over there.”
On Feb. 23, Pryor flew by helicopter with Harapan
from the Mercy back to shore to join the boy’s uncle, aunt
and their 2-year-old son – his only surviving relatives.
Pryor wrote of the reunion in his online journal that day:
“I guess what I was most struck with as I left Harapan and
his family is the impermanence of life, and how the mystery of life provided me an opportunity like this: To serve
as an officer in the USPHS and be a part of the Mercy
mission, where I would find myself halfway around the
world in a different culture and different language, and
despite all of the differences I have rekindled a heartfelt
reminder in Harapan and his uncle that we share so much
in common – the strength of family.”
Pryor returned March 2 to his own family, wife Erin
and daughter Audrey, who is now a year old. In
September he entered the two-year Kaiser program in nursing anesthesia in Pasadena, Calif.,
and after completion will continue to work for
Indian Health Services.
To read more about his experiences, visit
www.surgeongeneral.gov/journal.
Charles Chicks ’53 of
Sunnyvale, Calif., and his wife,
Barbara, received the American
Baptist Churches Sparrowk
President’s Award during the biennial meeting of the American Baptist
Churches USA in July.
Achilla (Imlong) Erdican ’57
and ’58 of Avondale Estate, Ga.,
published the Chang-English,
English-Chang Dictionary.
Clare and Sandra (Cashner)
Murray ’59 and ’62 of Vancouver,
Wash., are both retired.
1960-69
Roger and Florence (Wood)
Truax ’60 and ’59 of Astoria are
retired and serve on the North
Coast Land Conservancy in Clatsop
County.
Dorothy (Chance) Worrall
’63 of King City was recently honored at the 25th anniversary of the
Mary Woodward School in Tigard.
She was the school’s first music
teacher.
Janet (Pedersen) Hoffman
’64 of Keizer retired from the
Judicial Department.
Barbara (Peterson) Keir ’64
of Hood River retired from teaching in the Hood River School
District.
Gerald Moyer ’65 of Mill
Valley, Calif., accompanied high
school students during a spring
break trip to Mexico with Amor
Ministries. They built three houses
in four days without power tools.
Gail Adams ’66 of Altadena,
Calif., retired in 2001 and attended
her sixth Mardi Gras in New
Orleans this year.
1970-79
Roy Cummings ’70 of Salem
represents 4Life Research, Inc., specializing in immune system health.
Dave Lemire ’72 of Coos Bay
is a behavioral specialist and psychologist for the Education Service
Center in Coos Bay. He also teaches
at Southwest Oregon Community
College and Eastern Oregon
University and serves on a number
of editorial boards.
Ann Sukalac ’73 of Salem is
the Linfield Division of Continuing
Education Salem advisor. She
recently completed the graduate
certificate in academic advising program from Kansas State University.
Brenda Adcock ’74 of Vero
Beach, Fla., is chaplain and construction supervisor at Indian River
Habitat for Humanity.
Rob Stephenson ’75 of
McMinnville owns Rob Stephenson
Landscape Design & Consultation.
He previously owned Cascadia
Landscaping.
Jim Beach ’78 of Bellevue,
Wash., is chief financial officer and
executive vice president of The
Cobalt Group.
1980-89
Kelly (Knapp) McMillan ’82
of McMinnville is the small group
ministries director at Church on the
Hill in McMinnville.
Esther (Richardson)
Appleman ‘83 of Lake Oswego is
president of the Lake Oswego
Temporary Shelter Ministry, a coalition of seven churches providing
housing for homeless families in
transition.
Rick Crownover ’83 of
Mohrsville, Pa., is director of the
Reading Hospital Regional Cancer
Center.
Randy Mueller ’83 is general
manager for the Miami Dolphins.
He most recently served as an NFL
analyst for ESPN.com.
Joseph and Mona (Haldane)
Kinder, both ’85, live in
Walkersville, Md. Joseph attends the
National Defense University,
Industrial College of the Armed
Forces, working toward a master’s in
national resource management and
Mona is senior assistant manager at
Talbots.
Lewis Black ’85 of Salt Lake
City, Utah, is artistic director of
StageRight Theatre Company in
Holiday.
Polly (Bartels) Larsen ’85 of
Scottsdale, Ariz., owns the Larsen
Gallery, a contemporary art gallery.
Howard Bell ’86 of Dundee
and his wife, Kim, had a son, Gary
Bryan, April 17.
Marty Pigg ’87 of Anchorage,
Alaska, is the owner of Solstice
Solutions.
Chris and Diedre (Miles)
Girod ’88 and ’89 live in Carlsbad,
Calif., where Chris is a principal
and consulting actuary with
Milliman Consultants and Actuaries.
Sally Damewood ’89 of La
Grande had a son, Avery John, April
24. She is a personal trainer for
Mavericks Sports Club.
Steve Reimann ’89 of Yamhill
is co-owner of Wildcat Development,
currently developing a 155-home
subdivision in Carlton.
1990-99
Trent Davis ’90 of Lake
Oswego is chief executive and
president of Paulson Investment Co.
Greg Gulliford ’90 of
Vancouver, Wash., joined Senior
Loan Solutions, a reverse mortgage
broker.
Alan Boschma ’91 of
Dressed to win
Wildcat fans Ty Angevine ’93 and
Marilyn (Dresser) Cooper ’86 sport
nylon windshirts by Russell Athletic.
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‘New Directions’ for Oregon inmates
Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ’57 is
offering inmates at Eastern Oregon
Correctional Institution a key to life
beyond bars: education.
Hanks taught French and Spanish at
Blue Mountain Community College in
Pendleton from 1983 to 1999. She also
taught English as a second language at
the medium-security prison in
Pendleton during those years, full time at
Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ‘57
the prison from 1991 to 1999.
Today, Hanks chairs the board of
the New Directions Education Project, a nonprofit organization
she launched in 1999 after hearing about a similar prison
program in Kentucky. Since spring 2000, about 130 inmates
have participated.
Only 57 percent of the inmates have completed high
school or the GED, making them eligible for New Directions
classes. “Most of them were losers all the time in school,”
Hanks said. With New Directions, they are discovering they
can be successful in academics.
New Directions offers courses leading to an Associate of
Arts degree, including speech, U.S. history, biology, physics,
creative writing, math, art history, music literature, sociology,
psychology, cultural anthropology, Oregon geography, and fitness for life. “All except one prep math class are transferable to
any Oregon university,” Hanks noted. “Many of them didn’t
realize they were college material, and they are so thrilled.
They are so motivated, and they do their homework.”
New Directions is the only program of its type in
Oregon. Since 1994, when funding began to dry up, no
college classes had been available at any prison in the state.
“This is the reason our program came into being,” Hanks said.
New Directions operates with an annual budget of about
$24,000. The men each pay $25 per 10-week term to offset
tuition for the classes taught by Blue Mountain faculty. Some
textbooks have been donated by publishers. The balance of the
program costs comes from donations, grants and annual benefit
concerts. The fall 2004 concert, with a “Jailhouse Rock”
theme of 1950s and 1960s music performed by volunteers,
raised about $4,000, Hanks said.
Prison is a stark contrast to her previous work environments. The Salem native, who also studied in France under a
Fulbright fellowship in 1957, received a master’s of religious
education at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Philadelphia. She has held several jobs in Christian education
at churches in California and Oregon.
She remains active in church activities. Hanks and husband
Jim, a retired insurance adjuster, have a son in Ashland, a
daughter in Missoula, Mont., and 4-year-old twin grandsons.
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McMinnville is head football coach
at Yamhill-Carlton High School.
Kristal Shelton ’92 of West
Linn married Corben Hyatt June 30.
Catherine (Taylor) Walton ’92
of Vancouver, Wash., and her husband, Troy, own a home inspection
business.
Gary Thorson ’91 of
McMinnville is head football coach
at Dallas High School.
Michele (Waters) Cornwall
’92 of Newport is attending the
University of Portland School of
Nursing.
Katie (Maben) Siechen ’92 of
Iowa City, Iowa, and her husband,
Andy, had a son, Isaac James, Feb. 26.
Alex Woodward ’92 of Tigard
and his wife, Tracy, had a son, Tathan
Jackson, Aug. 5.
Roland Armstrong ’93 of
Cathlamet, Wash., earned the 2005
Hero Award from the Washington
Behavioral Healthcare Conference.
Sharon Boyle ’93 of Terre
Haute, Ind., and her husband,
Michael Boswell, had a daughter,
Kayla Elizabeth, June 16.
Jenny Brudvig ’93 of
Beaverton married Carlin Irish June
25. She works for U.S. Bank.
Janiece (Kern) Paulat ’93 of
Vancouver, Wash., and her husband,
Timothy, had a daughter, April 21.
Anne (Schmidt) Shantz ’93
of Snohomish, Wash., and her husband, Bradley, had a son, Levi
Charles, March 24.
Betty (Thompson) Tindall
’93 of Longview, Wash., is retired
and enjoys attending and participating in Corvette car shows.
Shannon Valdivia ’93 of
Gresham is instructor of speech
communication and director of
forensics at Mt. Hood Community
College. Her forensics team recently
won the Northwest Forensics
Conference regional championship
for community colleges.
Angelique (Langenhuysen)
Whitlow ’93 of Tigard is a senior
manager in audit services at Talbot,
Korvola & Warwick, LLP, a CPA
and consulting firm.
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives ’94 of
Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, earned a
Ph.D. from the University of
California, Santa Barbara and will
teach at the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver.
Tobi (Fauth) Schaap ’94 of
Barstow, Calif., and her husband,
Brian, had a son, Spencer William,
July 28.
Lincoln and Allison (Tomac)
Bach ’95 and ’96 of Portland had a
daughter, Hannah, Jan. 25, their
third.
Sheryl Kelsh ’95 of Keizer is
executive director of the Chehalem
Valley Chamber of Commerce in
Newberg.
Amy (Landis) Dannen ’95 of
Lebanon and her husband, Allen,
had twin daughters, Sadie Josephine
and Lauren Elizabeth, May 6, their
second and third.
Katina Rothleutner ’95 of
Kirkland, Wash., married Joel
Zwiefelhofer July 9 in Chippewa
Falls, Wis.
Joe and Dayna (Harper)
Schuler, both ’95, of Portland had
a son, Joseph, June 21, their second.
Stephanie Stewart ’95 of
Portland and her husband, Michael
St. Clair, had a daughter, Eleanor
Kole, Feb. 9. Stephanie is a painter.
Bernadette Suafo’a ’95 and
Julian Tyrell ’94 were married
Nov. 6. They live in Hauula, Hawaii.
Amy (Strong) Wilson ’95 of
Beaverton and her husband, Carter,
had a daughter, Paige Hannah, Aug.
14. Amy works in surgery at
Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.
Jody (Bogle) VanDePol ’95 of
Clarksburg, Calif., and her husband,
Jason, had a daughter, Abigail, July 4.
Steffani Bailey ’96 of
Providence, R.I., is interning at
Brown University Medical Center
to complete requirements for a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
Shelby (Smith) Nemecek ’96
of Beaverton is a disability benefits
analyst for Standard Insurance
Company.
Melissa (Long) Owen ’96 of
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and her
husband, Nick, had a son, Nile
Alexander, March 26.
Mike Westphal ’96 of
Bloomington, Ind., is an assistant
swim coach at Indiana University.
Korenza Burris ’97 of Dexter
is news anchor for KEZI-TV in
Eugene.
Matt and Eris (Miller)
Craven, both ’97, live in Bend
where Matt is a math teacher, head
track coach and assistant football
coach at Bend High School.
Alyssa (Gleed) Johnston ’97
of Durham, N.C., earned an MBA
from the University of North
Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of
Business.
Paul O’Hollaren ’97 of
Tualatin and his wife, Karen, had a
daughter, Keelie Kay, Nov. 13. Paul
is a territory manager for VNUS
Medical Technologies.
Richard Neel ’97 of Portland
married Elise Brahmer April 9.
Rich is an account executive for
Cytyc Corporation.
Jeff and Nissa (Cockrell)
Roberts ’97 and ’96 of Tualatin had
a daughter, McKenna Kaye, June 9.
Scott and Cecilia
(Hoodenpyle) Robertson ’97
and ’95 of Portland had a son,
Adam Taggart, June 6.
Anneli (Ahlmalm) Schalock
’97 of Hanover, N.H., is pursuing a
master’s in business administration at
Dartmouth’s Tuck School of
Business.
Kate Stolmeier ’97 of
Bridgewater, Somerset, England,
married Duncan MacRae April 8 in
Somerset. She teaches in a primary
school and participated in the
Fulbright Teacher’s Exchange
Program in 2002-2003.
Samara Suafo’a ’97 of San
Pedro, Calif., is a special education
teacher in the Los Angeles Unified
School District, currently pursuing a
master’s in special education of
moderate-severely disabled children.
Alicia (Nolan) Carlson ’98 of
Lincoln, Neb., and her husband,
Brian, adopted a daughter, Linara
Grace Renee, March 16. Alicia is a
CASA volunteer and an in-home
daycare provider. She and her husband are also foster parents.
Devan Dunn ’98 of Portland
married Kate Murray July 30 in
Portland.
Nicole (Erwert) Genduso ’98
of Hillsboro and her husband,
Joseph, had a son, Joseph Timothy,
March 12.
Jessica (Gómez) Graham ’98
of Salem teaches science at Regis
High School in Stayton.
Amanda (Wilson) Kapelka
’98 of Renton, Wash., and her husband, Ben, had a son, Benjamin
Wilson, April 25.
Michael McGrath ’98 of
Portland is a partner in the law firm
of Gearing, Rackner and Engel,
LLP in Portland.
Ryan McWayne ’98 of
Lebanon and his wife, Leslie, had a
daughter, Kiara Morgan, June 12.
Jeffrey Menold ’98 of
Issaquah, Wash., and his wife, Jaime,
had a son, Jaxon Paul, Aug. 24.
Tramaine Payne ’98 of
McMinnville teaches at Patton
Middle School and coaches football
and track at Linfield.
Taryne (Edmon) Roberts ’98
of Springfield married Adam
Roberts May 19 in Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico.
Ryder Campbell ’99 of New
Haven, Conn., earned an MBA
from Yale University and works for
Barclays Capital in New York City
with a certified financial advisor
designation.
Marissa (Rathbone) Dally
’99 of Arcadia, Okla., is the director
of health and physical education for
the Texas Education Agency.
Karen (Churchill) Garcia ’99
of Yuba City, Calif., and her husband, Joel, had a daughter, Sophia
Luna, May 2.
Clark Marston ‘99 of
Erlangen, Germany, and his wife,
Melanie, had twin daughters, Emma
Marie and Sophie Luisa, April 28.
Mindi Welton ’99 of
Needham, Maine, married John
Mitchell May 28. Melinda is an
ordained American Baptist Minister
at the First Baptist Church in
Newton.
2000-05
Sean Bettis ’00 is working for
the director of labor for the
Icelandic Government.
Alice Divers and Joseph
Bayless, both ’00, of Lake Oswego
were married Sept. 19.
Brittany Hartzell and Jeff
Baguley, both ’00, of Cayce, S.C.,
were married Dec. 18. Both are
completing post-doctoral research at
the University of South Carolina
after earning Ph.D.s, Brittany in
analytical chemistry from Ohio
University and Jeff in marine science from the University of Texas.
Brian Higa ’00 and Lauren
Arakawa ’03 of Hilo, Hawaii, were
married July 2.
Meredith Miller ’00 of Lake
Oswego earned a bachelor's in interior design from the Art Institute of
Portland.
Trevor Phillips ’00 and
Michelle Mallory ’01 of Tucson,
Ariz., were married May 7. Trevor
graduated from Yale University
School of Medicine in May and is
an emergency medicine physician at
the University of North Carolina.
Andrew Brawley ’01 and
Tracy Forrester ’03 of Burbank,
Calif., were married Sept. 3. Tracy is
a publicist for TV shows Jimmy
Kimmel Live and America’s Next Top
Model and Andrew is a marketing
coordinator for THQ, a video game
publisher.
Inkeri Chisholm ’01 of Lake
Oswego married Chad Martin
April 24.
Erin Gaskill ’01 of Kirkland,
Wash., teaches sixth grade and
organized Project Sheltering Tree to
provide education advocacy for
foster children.
Laura Gibson ’01 of Coquille
recorded a CD of urban folk music,
Amends.
Annikke Olson ’01 of
Hillsboro passed the National
Athletic Trainers Association Board
of Certification.
Blake Pang ’01 of Honolulu,
Hawaii, is the assistant vice president
of Aloha United Way.
Stacy Shiraga ’01 of Bend
married Brett Caldwell April 2.
Colene (Lord) Weber ’01 of
Phoenix, Ariz., earned a master’s
degree in education specializing in
middle level education from Walden
University.
Ryan Welch ’01 of Eugene and
his wife, Susan, had a son, Cade
Grant, May 2. Ryan started
AOCREATIVE, a graphic design
business.
Are you ready for a challenge?
These and other Linfield students will soon be calling you to join the “25 for 25 Challenge.”
Ten alumni have pledged a $25,000 gift
to Linfield if 25 percent or more alumni
make a gift by June 30, 2006. Step up to
the challenge and be one of 3,352 alumni
needed to reach 25 percent.
Look for details in the mail or ask
phonathon students how your gift can
help Linfield receive another $25,000.
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Class Notes
Alumni Profile
McCleary receives Grimes Award
Education and innovation have been career hallmarks
for Carol McCleary GSH ’55 of San Antonio, Texas.
McCleary, this year’s recipient of the Lloydena Grimes
Award for Excellence in Nursing, is a retired United States
Air Force colonel. Throughout her 26-year career, she
displayed a commitment to nursing that enhanced the
profession around the world.
McCleary started out at Good Samaritan Hospital as
head nurse of the diabetic medical/surgical unit two weeks
before graduation, and was later a GSH science instructor.
She entered the Air Force in 1962, ultimately creating and
implementing numerous first-time clinical, staff development and educational programs for staff and nurses.
Over the years, McCleary served in a number of overseas
posts including Turkey, Vietnam and Germany, and traveled
widely through Europe from Norway to Turkey. She was
command nurse in three major air commands, directly
responsible to the command surgeon. When she retired in
1988, McCleary was responsible for over 2,800 personnel in
three medical centers, seven hospitals, four clinics, the
School of Health Care Sciences and Air Force Recruiting
Service.
Since retirement, McCleary has served as board member
and newsletter editor for the Society of Air Force Nurses.
She also created and manages her retirement community
library and volunteers at the San Antonio Main Library.
Sonté Wong ’01 of Bismarck,
N.D., and Thomas Ford ’04 of
Federal Way, Wash., were members
of the Tri-Cities, Wash., Fever
indoor football team that captured
the National Indoor Football
League Championship.
Kaysie (Williams) Angeletta
’02 of Scurry, Texas, and her husband, John, had a daughter, Emily
Rose, Dec. 16.
Aaron Godfred ’02 of Norwalk,
Conn., is an account executive for
Octagon, developing Nextel’s
NASCAR marketing strategy.
Stacey Springer ’02 of North
Plains married Marcus Glaze Aug.
13 in Portland. Stacey teaches seventh grade health and language arts
at Brown Middle School and
coaches softball at Century High
School. She is also pursuing a master’s degree at Pacific University.
Megan (Corman) Tucker ’02
of Sacramento, Calif., teaches music
in Sacramento and Vacaville.
Danielle Watson and Nicholas
Clearwater, both ’02, of
Clackamas were married July 30 in
Milwaukie.
Ali Benson ’03 of Beaverton
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passed the National Athletic Trainers
Association Board of Certification.
Larry Fudge ’03 of Pasadena,
Calif., is pursuing graduate studies
at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Rhea Hartlieb ’03 of Lake
Oswego is on a three-person opening team for Abercrombie & Fitch
Corporation.
Kristin Hindley ’03 of
Beaverton married Owen
McCartney July 23 in Beaverton.
Amy Smith ’03 of Portland is
a faculty coordinator for an international leadership development firm.
Brandon Standridge ’03 of
Glendale teaches social studies and
coaches boys’ varsity basketball at
Glendale High School.
Fred Elchlepp ’04 of Corvallis
is research associate at DLF
International Seeds Research
Station in Philomath.
Kristen (Snook) Michael ’04
of McMinnville coordinates the
Youth Empowerment Squad and
Juvenile Crime and Substance
Abuse Prevention Council for the
Yamhill County Prevention
Program.
Rachel Ruger ’04 of
M A G A Z I N E
Vancouver, Wash., is pursuing a
graduate degree in mathematics at
Portland State University.
Ronna Sweeney ’04 of
Woodburn is a television
reporter/anchor for KCBY-TV in
Coos Bay.
Chelsea Zeal and Jake
Roberts, both ’04, of Portland
were married June 25 in Portland.
Nicole Hunter ’05 of
Syracuse, N.Y., is pursuing a master’s
in television/radio/film at Syracuse
University.
Coleen Hoadley ’05 of
Medford married Scott Gies July 2
in Ashland.
Alex Justus ’05 of Bellevue,
Wash., plays for the Gateway
Grizzlies baseball team.
Kimberly McGough ’05 of
Albany took over her father’s math
class at Calapooia Middle School in
Albany after he retired.
Rebecca Price ’05 of Flagstaff,
Ariz., married Joseph Colman Aug.
23 in Phoenix.
Seth Prickett ’05 of Ghana,
Africa, volunteers as a teacher at a
primary school.
GSH
Linda (Transue) Davis GSH
’72 of Portland works for Legacy
Health System in the employee
health division.
Catherine (Cole) York GSH
’83 of Portland writes articles about
the wine industry for The Oregonian.
In memoriam
Mary (Westall) Parrish ’35 of
Portland, Aug. 24. Survivors include
her daughter, Virginia (Parrish)
Peterson ’68, and sister Frances
(Westall) Daniels ’39.
Eva (Gaches) Collinson ’38
of Mount Vernon, Wash., April 28.
Marjorie (Perkins) Camp ’39
of Livermore, Calif., Sept. 29, 2004.
Marjory (Miller) Hillman ’39
of San Jose, Calif., Feb. 5.
James Henry ’40 of Kaysville,
Utah, March 6, 2004.
Maxine (Klinge) Hildman
’41 of Paradise Valley, Ariz., May 24,
2004.
John Sullivan ’41 of Glendale,
Ariz., Sept. 7, 2004.
Katherine (Bishop)
Sutherland ’41 of Yorktown, Va.,
Oct. 14.
Dorothy Rattey ’41 of
Warrensburg, Mo., April 21.
Survivors include her brother, John
Rattey, Jr. ’47.
Ruth (Ross) Lomer ’42 of
Longview, Wash., July 28.
Jean Larson ’43 of Olympia,
Wash., Oct. 26.
Dorothy (Torner) Leypoldt
’44 of Capistrano, Calif., July 30,
2004.
Marshall Barnard ’49 of
Portland, June 2.
Franklin Voigt ’49 of Sumner,
Wash., July 20.
Betty (Hausen) Corn ’50 of
Walla Walla, Wash., March 17, 2004.
Keith Wood ’50 of
McMinnville, Aug. 6. Survivors include
his wife, Bettie (Spring) ’48.
Sybil Seward ’53 of
McMinnville, Sept. 23.
John Collins ’54 of Reno,
Nev., Aug. 16.
James Buckingham ’58 of
Calistoga, Calif., Feb. 1.
Jenora Michaelsohn ’57 of
Portland, Aug. 11.
Patricia (Davenport)
McCarley ’61 of Lake Oswego,
June 4. Survivors include daughters
Katherine (McCarley) Campbell
’90 and Kelly (McCarley)
Andresen ’91.
Austin Cole ’75 of Compton,
Calif., June 29, 1999.
Dion Sanders ’78 of Las Vegas,
Nev., Jan. 10, 2004.
Eric Kautzky ’90 of Portland,
June 18.
Scarlett (Skill) Holland ’92
of Vancouver, Wash., June 17, 2004.
Survivors include her brother,
Brent Skill ’69.
Mark Shirtcliff ’93 of Bend,
June 25. Survivors include his sister,
Melody (Shirtcliff) Cobb ’93.
Randall Dorosh ’93 of
Eugene, May 25.
GSH
Delores (Irish) Fairchild
GSH ’48 of Medford, Nov. 10.
Elizabeth Vierling GSH ’74
of Volusia, Fla., Dec. 13.
Friends and family
Dorothy Harn of Eugene, July
2. She was the wife of the late
Wayne Harn, former Linfield football coach.
Raymond Befus of
McMinnville, June 25. He was a
professor of education for 20 years.
Survivors include his daughter,
Myrth (Befus) Ogilvie ’76.
Katherine Scott of Carlton,
Aug. 1.
Irvin Walsh of Portland, June
26. Survivors include his son
Gregory ’73 and daughter-in-law
Peggy (Thomas) ’74.
Fast-paced finance good fit for CFO
Mike Yonker ’80 is the first to admit he’s an overachiever.
Sitting in his top-floor Wilsonville office, surrounded
by family photos and outdoor scenes, he drinks from a
water bottle, hydrating himself for the coming weekend’s
Hood to Coast relay.
“I’m a play-hard work-hard person,” he said.
“Whatever it is, I go at it with 150 percent effort to be
the best at it.”
So it came as no surprise when, as a Linfield College
sophomore, Yonker discovered a passion for accounting
and buckled down to complete his college coursework early.
The only thing left to do was begin his career, which
he did with a vengeance during his senior year.
Now, Yonker is executive vice president and chief
financial officer for InFocus Systems Inc., a multimedia
projector maker with 700 employees and offices worldwide. He’s been with InFocus since 1993, save for a threeyear stint as CFO for Wieden & Kennedy. He spent his
first 14 years out of college rocketing to partner status
with Arthur Andersen & Company.
The son of Thomas Yonker, Linfield education
professor from 1970 to 1988, Mike grew up enveloped in
Linfield’s collegiate atmosphere. He developed a love of
education and an interest in communication, recognizing
early that people take different
action as a result of how they understand something.
“That’s always fascinated me,”
he said.“I love being in front of people. I love teaching. I love interacting. And I think a lot of that came
from my father and growing up
around Linfield. Enrolling there was
the natural, next thing for me to do.”
Yonker’s initial interest in marine biology and foresty
was short lived. Prompted by his sister, Kathy (Yonker)
Bernards ’76, a business major, Yonker enrolled in an
accounting class taught by Mike Jones, professor of accounting. For both Yonker and Jones, it was their first accounting
class at Linfield – Yonker as a student and Jones as professor.
“He really took me under his wing,” Yonker said of
Jones. “He saw in me what I didn’t realize I had. Had he
not taken that level of interest in me, I doubt I would have
taken the track I have.”
Under Jones’ guidance, Yonker interviewed and
secured an internship with Arthur Andersen & Company,
setting into motion the now successful Linfield accounting student recruiting program.
Mike Yonker ‘80 combines his enthusiasm for finance and high technology as CFO for
InFocus Systems Inc., a multimedia projector maker based in Wilsonville.
“Mike had a spark that was evident even when he
was a sophomore,” Jones remembered. “I’ve always
appreciated how he paved the way for a lot of later
generations of students. He was a tip top student. I’m
not surprised at his success.”
While Yonker is fascinated
with the fast-paced work and
advanced technologies central to
InFocus products, his favorite
part of his job is drawing out the
best in the people around him.
As CFO, he works with employees in all departments.
“I do everything I can to
help them achieve way beyond
what they think they’re capable of doing,” said Yonker. “As
the people I work with achieve greatness, it raises all the
boats in the company, including mine.”
Yonker, who married Robin (Haun) ’83, is a strong
proponent of a liberal arts education. He encourages students, including his own three children, to step outside
their comfort zones by studying abroad.
“It broadens you as an individual,” he said. “The
market today is a worldwide market and you have to be
chameleon-like in your ability to step into multiple
cultures and environments, and be effective in your
communications so that you can get business done.”
“As the people I work with
achieve greatness, it raises all
the boats in the company,
including mine.”
— Laura Davis
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the football team’s drive to its 50th winning season, go to www.linfield.edu/sports
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