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Bullwhackers,
Muleskinners
and Fred Lockley
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By George P. Edmonston Jr.
Fred Lockley (1871-1958) was one of Oregon’s pioneer newspapermen and among
the most famous journalists in Pacific
Northwest history. He attended Oregon
State in 1889 and 1890.
Today, he is all but forgotten, joining
the likes of Asahel Bush II (1824-1913),
Abigail Scott Duniway (1836-1915), Stewart Holbrook (1893-1964), Sam Simpson
(1846-1899) and other noted Oregon
journalists whose lives and contributions
have been reduced by time and technology to the intellectual property of specialists in state history and readers of old
newspapers.
This raises an obvious question: Why
is Fred Lockley worth remembering?
Throughout much of the five decades he
was a writer and editor for more than a
dozen newspapers and magazines, this
erstwhile Beaver crisscrossed the region
collecting pioneer stories from members
of a disappearing generation, the “bull-
whackers, muleskinners, pioneers, prospectors, ’49ers, Indian fighters, trappers,
ex-barkeepers, authors, preachers, poets
and near-poets” who had staked everything to travel the California and Oregon
trails to begin their lives anew.
In a race against time, Lockley interviewed more than 10,000 men and women who lived during the earliest years of
white settlement in Oregon, in a colossal
effort to preserve their memories before it
was too late. His job, he often said, was to
generate “source material for the future
historian and artist.” He saw the last half
of the 19th century in the West as “a great
exploring epic, a pioneering romance.”
Much of this work ended up in the
Oregon Journal newspaper, where he
worked from 1911 into the 1950s. His feature column, “Impressions and Observations of a Journal Man,” appeared almost
daily. By the 1930s, his fame among his
readers had reached superstar proportions.
One of Lockley’s better-known books has a
an ample and highly descriptive title.
STAT E R
Most of his interviews and “observations” rest in a collection of 58 old,
black, three-ring binders in the Oregon
Collection at the library of the University
of Oregon. Without question, the body
of work contained here stands as one of
the rare treasures of Oregon’s pioneering
history. The New York Historical Society
also has a large number of documents
– correspondence, essays, interviews and
letters – pertaining to Lockley’s career
and family life.
Lucky for those of us who enjoy reading these kinds of stories, a number of
books have been published under Lockley’s name (edited by Mike Helm and
published by Rainy Day Press in Eugene;
available through many online booksellers), which serve as samplers of his best
work. These include Across the Plains by
Prairie Schooner; To Oregon by Ox Team in
’49; Vigilante Days in Carson City; and my
favorite, Conversations with Bullwhackers,
Muleskinners, Pioneers, Prospectors, ’49ers,
Indian Fighters, Trappers, Ex-Barkeepers,
Authors, Preachers, Poets & Near Poets, and
All Sorts & Conditions of Men.
A giant of a man, Lockley had a
warm and engaging personality and a
rich and mellow voice. That this was reflected in his writing may have accounted for his immense popularity. His interviews with historic figures included the
names Thomas Edison, Booker T. Washington, Woodrow Wilson, Ezra Meeker
“If you are interested in
humanity, everyone you meet
is a story”
and Jack London. During World War I,
he served as a correspondent in France,
publishing more than 300 stories in the
Oregon Journal, the New York Herald and
the London Globe.
In Bullwhackers, Lockley offers an
extremely rare account of Corvallis’ T.
Egerton Hogg, a Confederate naval officer, controversial railroad promoter, and
early donor to the construction of Benton
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Hall, who once lived in a large house on
the spot now occupied by Waldo Hall.
In this same book, he recounts a
meeting with Robert M. Veatch of Cottage Grove, a member of Oregon State’s
Lockley was a prolific writer whose personal
histories of Oregonians were wildly popular
with generations of newspaper readers.
first graduating class (at the collegiate
level) in 1870.
Lockley entered OSU (known officially then as State Agricultural College,
but informally as Oregon Agricultural
College) in the fall of 1889, dropping out
in his sophomore year in 1890 because
of, as he put it, “my father’s poor investments, coupled with my own exaggerated sense of parental loyalty.” He would
later attend Willamette University in Salem, where he would graduate in 1895.
His writings were not limited to
his assignments for the Journal but can
be found today in the archives of more
than a dozen newspapers from Montana
to Kansas. In Oregon, at various times
during his early career, he worked for the
Capitol Journal in Salem, the East Oregonian in Pendleton (where he owned a 25
percent interest in the business) and Pacific Monthly and Pacific Homestead magazines.
Born on March 19, 1871, in Leavenworth, Kansas, his father, Frederic
E. Lockley, was a Londoner by birth.
His mother, Elizabeth Metcalf Campbell Lockley, was a native of New York
state. With Fred still an infant, the family
moved to Salt Lake City, where his father
became managing editor and part owner
of the Salt Lake Tribune. In 1879, and riding in a mule-driven wagon, they were
on the move again, this time to Walla
Walla, Wash. Now in the Pacific Northwest, Fred Lockley would remain a resident the rest of his life.
Interviews with him appear in several issues of the OAC Alumnus, an Oregon Stater predecessor, in the mid-1920s.
In each one, we are treated to his own remembrances of what student life was like
during the final years of President B. L.
Arnold’s administration (1872-92).
“What is now the west quadrangle
was all private property,” he said. “All
students were required to do daily manual work on the farm as part of their training. Demerits were given for absence
from recitation, drill, or daily chapel.”
He also remembered serving as the
first president of Oregon State’s on-campus chapter of the Y.M.C.A. Later, he
watched as his nephew, Clayborn Lockley “Clay” Shepard, instituted the movement that would eventually lead to the
construction of Shepard Hall, OSU’s first
student union building.
He married Hope Gans in 1897. One
of their sons, Lawrence Campbell Lockley, attended Oregon Agricultural College in 1918 and 1919. Hope died in 1928,
and in 1930, Fred married Laura Simpson. He died in Portland in 1958 at the
age of 87. Few people, if any, matched his
contribution to Oregon history.
He was once asked: “Don’t you ever
run out of material?”
“As long as there are any people left
in the world, I shan’t run out of material,” he said.
“For if you are interested in humanity, everyone you meet is a story.”
George P. Edmonston Jr. is history and
traditions editor of the Oregon Stater, and is
past editor of the magazine.
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membership matters
Log in to your new home: www.osualum.com
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By Kevin Miller
Oregon State alumni have a fancy new
online home where they can find old
friends, make new ones, trade stories,
brag a bit, get and give career tips, and
learn about the myriad ways to have fun
and do good work as OSU graduates.
The new Web site, www.osualum.
com, is intended to serve all OSU alumni,
be they members of the OSU Alumni Association or not. It’s an upgrade from the
old site in many aesthetic ways and one
critically practical way, says Ben Danley,
’93, the association’s director of marketing. He leads the effort to make the site a
favorite in every Beaver’s Web browser.
With the site up and running, Danley needs help. He asks that all alumni
go to the site, www.osualum.com, and,
if they’re not registered, click on “First
Time Login” in the upper left corner.
Then, simply follow directions to create
a free account and update your profile,
and you’ll be on your way to helping OSUAA build an exciting, diverse, worldwide community of alumni.
Designed with help from iModules,
a national firm specializing in online
communities, the site has a new address
and a new look, with better organization
and more content than the old site. But
the biggest improvement is the addition
of a digital community, built around a
constantly-updated alumni directory.
With this tool and some active participation, Beavers around the world can locate
each other and gather around common
interests.
At the start, the directory contains
only basic, public-domain information
about every OSU alum: Name, year of
graduation and academic specialty. The
exciting part, according to Danley, comes
when alumni log in to the site and create their own profiles by adding more
detailed information about themselves.
Marriages, births, job changes, hobbies,
college and post-college affiliations and
more can all be added. Photo galleries
can be posted. Job networking is pos-
Above: The new OSUAA Web site is for all alumni, not just members. It gives OSU graduates
their own online community in which to make contacts and connect with the university. Below:
The login process is self-explanatory, once a person clicks on “First Time Login” in the upper
sible; resumes can be posted.
Alumni will always be able to decide
who gets to see any information they add
to their profiles, Danley said. Osualum.
com even allows alumni to forward messages to other alumni through the site
so both parties can make initial contacts
while keeping their personal e-mail addresses private.
Groups of alumni will have pages
on the site. Eventually, as more profiles
are completed, alumni will be able to use
the site to connect and form groups for
fun and business. For example, an OSU
graduate looking for 1980s-era business
alumni who like to golf in the San Diego
area might search and create a Beaver
foursome.
The true potential of the site has yet
to be determined, Danley said. That will
be demonstrated by the alumni who log
in and find ways to use it to improve the
experience of being an OSU graduate.
STAT E R
director’s cut
Just who and what is the OSUAA, anyway?
By Jeff Todd
Executive director, OSUAA
We feel your pain, or at least your confusion.
The OSU Alumni Association coordinates with several organizations as we
help alumni build connections to one another and to Oregon State. While coordination is definitely a good thing, it sometimes results in an identity crisis among
alumni and friends when it comes to the
three major nonprofit organizations that
reach out to OSU supporters: the OSUAA, the OSU Foundation and the Beaver Athletic Student Fund.
The OSU Alumni Association, as the
name suggests, is an organization made
up of OSU alumni and friends of the university. Founded in 1873 and incorporated in 1956, the association is a 501(c)(3)
member-based, nonprofit organization
that exists to promote OSU and engage
alumni with the university and one another. We rely heavily on membership
dues, donations, event fees, and sponsorships to support our programs.
We offer a range of programs to help
build a dynamic community of alumni,
including the Oregon Stater, a weekly e-
mail newsletter, Beaver Eclips, regional
programs, faculty lecture series, international and domestic travel opportunities, tailgate parties at home and away
football games, and awards to recognize
alumni accomplishment and support
for OSU. We also offer services such as
the affinity credit card, group insurance,
and, as we are announcing in this issue of
the magazine, www.osualum.com, a new
online community to help alumni stay in
touch with one another and OSU. Building and maintaining connections with
and between alumni is our main goal.
Our partners at the Oregon State
University Foundation, or OSUF, have
a different but highly complimentary
mission. The foundation is a private,
nonprofit, corporation affiliated with the
university. The foundation’s assets and
earnings are distributed to OSU’s colleges, departments and programs at the
direction of donors or, when donations
are unrestricted, at the direction of the
foundation’s volunteer board of trustees
in response to priority requests from the
university president. All university fundraising programs are managed by the
foundation, including those for various
OSU academic and research branches,
and including the Beaver Athletic Student Fund.
The Beaver Athletic Student Fund,
known as BASF, is a branch of the OSU
Foundation that supports OSU’s department of intercollegiate athletics. Most
athletic funding comes from gifts, ticket
sales and marketing activities. These
revenues help underwrite intercollegiate
athletics at OSU and ensure a quality experience for student athletes. The BASF
staff works for the OSU Foundation, and
all gifts to the BASF are counted and
managed as OSUF donations. (The same
is true for most gifts to OSUAA, although
the OSUAA staff works for the association, not the foundation.)
At the OSUAA, we value alumni
support of OSU in all its forms. I encourage you to get involved – join your alumni association, make a gift to support
OSU through the OSU Foundation, and
support Beaver athletics through BASF.
While the three entities are different and
ask for support in separate ways, we all
work together to help OSU’s graduates
and other friends support our great university.
OSUAA, the OSU Alumni Association, is a
private, nonprofit organization that sees its
main mission as keeping alumni connected to
Oregon State and to one another.
OSUF, the OSU Foundation, is OSU’s major
fundraising organization.
BASF, the Beaver Athletic Student Fund, is
an OSU Foundation branch that focuses on
athletics.
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Revamped alumni tailgaters provide warm, dry fun on football game days
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Throngs of festive Beaver fans gathered at
the CH2M HILL Alumni Center for this fall’s
home tailgaters. A la carte food and drink
selections were popular goals for those who
walked in the door, wandered up and down
the halls, purchased the latest in Beaver gear
or relaxed in the party tent on the patio.
Inside the ballroom, however, the comments of the fans took on a more fervent and
grateful tone.
“I love the festivity and the environment,”
said Janice Romsos Maier, ’65, of Hillsboro.
“We always come to the tailgaters!”
She and her husband, John Maier, come
early to be sure and catch the band and
cheerleaders as they come through the ballroom to entertain the guests.
New guidelines began this fall to allow
members of the alumni association free admission to the ballroom area of the center,
with others paying $5. In the past admission
had been free for everyone.
How did the change work?
“People may think we did it to make
more money, which is not true,” said Doug
Cox, facilities manager of the non-profit
alumni center. “With fewer people in the ballroom, our percentage from the sales of food
in that room goes down. But we are accomplishing the goals of the alumni association
– to provide a great benefit for members of
the OSUAA. They are overwhelmingly happy
with the change.”
The mood in the alumni ballroom was
upbeat. Early birds, who came to get good
seats to watch the game on the big-screen
television, were joined by partygoers who
dropped in on their way to the game.
“It’s a nice atmosphere and they have
good food,” said Nick Mecklem, ’67, of Portland. “Depending upon the weather, we come
almost every time.”
“We’ve been coming for six or seven
years and they make it as easy and carefree
as possible. Plus, there are great bathrooms,”
added his wife, Gail Mecklem. “It is less
crowded now and that is nice.”
“It is not on TV at home today,” said
Charles Kipper, ’50, ’56, and his wife, Virginia
Carlson Kipper, ’50 of Corvallis. Season ticket holders, they had given their game tickets
away and then had their plans change at the
last minute, so they appreciated the fact that
the ballroom had a live feed for the Arizona
State game.
When a downpour started during the
second half, the Kippers were joined by hundreds of other Beavers.
Too wet to stay and too excited to leave,
they cheered the Beavers to an impressive
victory.
The alumni association plans to hold
several basketball tailgaters at the alumni
center this winter – check out the schedule at www.osualum.com. Photo by Dennis
Wolverton
STAT E R
Alumni fellows honored at Homecoming
Six distinguished alumni and one young rising star were honored as OSUAA Alumni Fellows during Homecoming in November.
The seven alumni returned to campus to meet with students and staff, taught in the “Classes Without Quizzes” program and were recognized during a formal awards luncheon
and Homecoming football game.
Kenneth Thrasher, ’71
Sara J. White, ’68
Susan R. Parker, ’74
This year’s fellows include: Michael Chamness, a graduate from the College of Liberal Arts; Jay L. McQuillen Jr., the
College of Engineering; Susan R. Parker, the College of Health
and Human Sciences; Gretchen Schuette, the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences; Kenneth Thrasher, the College of
Business; and Sara J. White, the College of Pharmacy. Chelsea
Byrd received the first-ever Young Alumni Award.
Byrd works as a scientist in the Corvallis laboratory of
SIGA Technologies on antiviral and anti-infective drug discovery and vaccine development, primarily in defense against bioterrorism attacks. She earned two degrees from OSU: a bachelor’s in microbiology in 2001 and a doctorate in molecular and
cellular biology in 2005. Her doctoral dissertation was chosen
as one of the five best in the world in life sciences for 2005 by
the Council of Graduate Schools and University Microfilms.
Chamness, who received a bachelor’s degree from OSU
in 1971, used leadership skills he developed as editor of the
Daily Barometer and in student government to build a successful career in financial services and the insurance industry. He is
a board member for First Financial Resources, LLC and for The
Strategic Alliance, Inc., both of Portland. He is a past member
of the OSU Alumni Association Board of Directors.
McQuillen, of Indian Wells, Calif., has worked building public infrastructure since graduating from OSU with a
master’s degree in civil engineering in 1986. He manages the
Southern California region for Granite Construction Company
and has supervised construction projects worth billions of dollars. A former captain of the OSU rugby team, he also is active
in helping the College of Engineering and has been president
of the OSU Construction Engineering Foundation.
With a 1974 bachelor’s degree in clothing textiles, Parker
launched a career with Macy’s, where she still works today,
managing the store in Pleasanton, Calif., one of the company’s
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largest. She sponsors an annual tour and scholarship program
in which OSU students shadow Macy’s workers to learn more
about the profession. Many of these students have gone on to
successful careers with Macy’s. She also is a 15-year member
of the Industrial Advisory Board for OSU’s Department of Design and Human Environment.
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Gretchen Schuette, ’80
Michael Chamness, ’71
Jay L. McQuillen, ’86
Chelsea Byrd, ’01, ’05, won the first-ever Young Alumni Award,
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Upcoming alumni events in 2007
n OSUAA board meeting, January 25-27, Bend
n Destination OSU at Palm Springs, March 5 and 6. Includes
OSU Presents, the Dan Poling Award presentation and a gala
dinner, plus many other activities.
n OSU Day at the Capitol in Salem, Tuesday, April 17, 5-6:30
p.m. All alumni and other friends of OSU are welcome.
n Alumni travel opportunities to Holland & Belgium; Assisi,
Italy; Danube River; Scotland; New Zealand with President Ed
Ray and his wife Beth; Spain; Baja; Baltic Sea & Norwegian
fjords, and the Alps: www.osualum.com/travel
n Hoops tailgaters at the CH2M HILL Alumni Center
this winter:
January 6
Men vs USC
January 13
Women vs AZ
January 28
Women vs UO
February 24
Men vs WSU
n OSUAA annual members meeting, May 11, alumni center
n Golden Jubilee, June 8-10 – Classes of 1957, 1952, 1947,
1942 and 1937
For more information, visit www.osualum.com
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n Asian tours: Associate Director Julie
Schwartz joined President Ed Ray and
other representatives as they toured Asia
and signed partnership agreements between OSU and 10 Asian institutions.
OSU now has nearly 150 international
partners.
While they were in Taipei, Taiwan,
they took part in a ceremony honoring
six graduates of OSU who are either former or current presidents of Asian universities.
n Thai alumni: The OSU Thai Student Association is one of the oldest and largest
of all OSU Foreign Student Associations.
More than 800 alumni live in Thailand
and 150 of them gathered recently to hear
President Ray give an update on OSU.
n Career assistance: OSU Career Services
is partnering with the association to create an Alumni Career Network. Expect to
hear more soon. In the meantime, alumni
are always welcome at career fairs held
several times a year in the alumni center.
Last year nearly 400 organizations interviewed students on campus.
n Thank you, Prof. Holman: The OSUAA
Distinguished Professor Award was pre-
sented to Robert A. Holman, Professor of
Marine Geology and Geophysics, during
University Day festivities.
n Do you like wine? Join the OSUAA Wine
club and receive quarterly shipments of
fine Beaver wines. Get more info at:
www.osualumniassociationwineclub.
com.
n Come one, come all: OSUAA’s annual
members meeting will be held Friday,
May 11, 2007, at the CH2M HILL Alumni
Center. Alumni and other supporters of
OSU are welcome to join the association.
Alumni fellows
Education and director of Portland Area
Programs for OSU and has helped forge
connections between community colleges and four-year institutions.
Thrasher, a 1971 graduate from
OSU in business administration, worked
for Fred Meyer for 20 years, rising to the
position of president and CEO after Fred
Meyer merged with The Kroger Company. He is currently CEO of Compli, a
Portland-based employment practices
compliance management company.
He is active in public affairs and has
served on many boards, including the
Portland Art Museum, Northwest Natural, the Portland State University Foun-
dation, Friends of the Children and the
Oregon Coast Aquarium.
White, with a bachelor’s degree in
pharmacy from OSU in 1968, has become a recognized leader in the field of
pharmacy education, especially in helping pharmacists in hospitals and large
health-care systems.
She worked for 20 years at the University of Kansas Medical Center and
School of Pharmacy and finished the
last 11 years of her professional career
as director of pharmacy at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and as clinical professor at the University of California at San
Francisco.
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Schuette devoted her career to public education after earning a doctorate
in oceanography from OSU in 1980. She
recently announced that she intends to
retire as president of Chemeketa Community College in Salem. She also is a
member of the Oregon State Board of
Higher Education. She has been interim
commissioner of Oregon Community
Colleges and held leadership positions
with Gresham-Barlow School District,
Mt. Hood Community College and
Linn Benton Community College. She
was dean of Distance and Continuing
STAT E R
snapshot
They love a parade
Members of the national champion OSU
baseball team starred in the revived homecoming parade, held Nov. 4 from downtown
Corvallis through the campus. From left are
assistant coach Marty Lees and players Chris
Kunda, Kevin Gunderson, Jonah Nickerson
and Lonnie Lechelt.
Related activities were held across campus throughout the week, including the OSU
Student Alumni Association’s bonfire, where
the 2006 homecoming court was announced
for the second straight year after the tradition
lapsed in 1993. Matt Lewis, an English major,
was crowned king and Mikhelle Gattone, an
ethnic studies major, was crowned queen.
Other events included Classes Without
Quizzes and presentation of the new alumni
fellows.
The Beaver football team punctuated
the week in impressive fashion, dominating
Arizona State in a 44-10 win. Photo by Dennis
Wolverton
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class notes
Cities are in Oregon unless specified. Read and submit
class notes at www.osualum.com or
[email protected].
1920s
Elsa Ringel Emigh, ’28, recently celebrated her
100th birthday with family and friends at Mountain
Meadows Care Facility in Walla Walla, Wash. With
her home economics degree, she became manager
of the Walla Walla High School cafeteria in 1933
where she met her husband, Ralph Emigh. They
were married for 36 years, until his death in 1973.
Gertrude Mueller Strowbridge, ’28, OSU’s oldest
living alumna, celebrated her 105th birthday in November with her friends at the Stonebrook Assisted
Living Center in Corvallis.
1930s
Patricia Mayo, ’37, Laguna Woods, Calif., writes: “I
am in good health and living happily at a retirement
center in beautiful Orange County. But I would
rather be almost anyplace in Oregon! I would love
to hear from my friends who have survived into
their 90s!”
Bill Demme, ’37, writes from his home in
Ridgefield, Wash.: “Approaching 70 years as an
OSU alum somehow seems unreal, but vastly
superior to the alternative.”
1940s
Mildred Little Roof, ’41, and her husband, Jack
Roof, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary this
summer at their home in Poulsbo, Wash.
Elbert Kelly, ’47, Oceanside, Calif., writes that he
has “retired after 57 years in mechanical consulting
engineering (HVAC), nine in Oregon and 48 in
Southern California.”
Jerry Cotter, ’49, writes: “Jerry and G. Helene
Holtzinger were married at St. Philip Catholic
Church in Dallas, Oregon on June 17, 2006.”
1950s
Dana Collins, ’51, and his wife, Pat Collins,
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this
summer in Medford.
Barbara Burtner Weber, ’53, ’71, Corvallis, has
been creating artwork for 38 years, specializing
in Japanese woodblock prints, mono prints, sumi
paintings and watercolors. She is a founding
member of a gallery in Corvallis, now known as Art
in the Valley.
Don Chapman, ’53, ’57, ’61, Pendleton, is an
independent fish biologist working as consultant
for native tribes, government and environmental
groups and national research committees.
Elaine Rosenberg Cogan, ’54, writes that she and
her husband, Arnold Cogan, ’54, are celebrating
30 years in their Portland consulting practice as
principals in Cogan Owens Cogan LLC. Elaine has
won three national awards for leadership in helping
develop governance models for rural Clackamas
County.
Joanne Taylor Bergmann, ’56, is retired and living
in Sunriver with her husband, Jim Bergmann.
“Enjoying life and travels,” she writes, “and our
eight grandchildren from our four children.”
Chuck Ades, ’57, Encinitas, Calif., writes: “I was
recently given special recognition by the San Diego
Flower and Plant organization as grower of the year.
I am cofounder of Ades and Gish Nurseries and
later became sole owner. … I still enjoy working at
the nursery but I plan to retire in the near future. “
Gerald Gerke, ’58, Madras, writes: “I am a retired
pharmacist enjoying good health. I work as a relief
pharmacist.”
C. Philip McGuire, ’58, is “playing tennis and
enjoying Sarasota, ‘the cultural capital of Florida.’”
Bill S. Ward, ’59, is managing principal at
Management Engineering Associates LLC in Camas,
Wash. He is the northwest regional director of the
American Society for Engineering Management.
1960s
Joseph Light, ’60, and his wife, Delores Light, of
Eugene, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
in June with family and friend at Steens Mountain.
Evor Kumpula, ’60, and his wife, BillieAnn
Kumpula, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
this summer in Albany.
Bunny Nygren Dyer, ’61, is administrator at
Summit Springs Village, an assisted living facility
in Condon.
Gene Ginther, ’61, Palm Desert, Calif., is an
independent consultant for municipalities.
“Exciting and interesting work; keeps me very
active!”
Jack McConnell, ’62, Portland, has retired after
more than 29 years at Norris Beggs & Simpson
Commercial Real Estate, “to volunteer and travel,”
he writes.
Nadine Putnam Bartsch, ’65, writes that she
received a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from
Texas Tech University.
Jan Pipes Kerns, ’66, a family farmer in Haines,
has been named to the Oregon State Board of
Agriculture. She also serves on the USDA Fruit and
Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee.
Steve Peterson, ’66, sent this news: “Retired to
Chapel Hill, N.C. Got around getting here: grad
school at University of Michigan, Ph.D. in 1971;
postdocs at University of North Carolina, 1972-1975
and University of Virginia, 1975-1978; chemist at
Westinghouse Electric Co. in Pittsburgh, 1978-1995
and then contractor at Naval Research Laboratory
in Washington D.C., 1995-2000.”
Denny Miles, ’67, Salem, is director of development
and associate executive director of the Chemeketa
Community College Foundation.
Ron G. Fox, ’67, is executive director of Southern
Oregon Regional Economic Development in Grants
Pass.
Bob Miller, ’68, ’72, and his wife, Linda Miller,
Albany, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary
this past summer.
Kenneth Day, ’68, is director of strategic operations
at Oregon Cutting Systems, a division of Blount
International, in Portland. He sent us a story about
a time he and his wife, LaVeta, stayed with some
friends who are UO alumni: “I felt it was in their
best interest to fertilize and water in a big OSU
in their front lawn. Those three letters grew in
more lush and green than the rest of the lawn that
spring, providing a good laugh to their friends and
neighbors over my creative landscaping. We found
out they eventually laughed too… but all garden
equipment was locked up on future visits!”
Rod Greene, ’68, has retired as manager after 30
years at Lone Rock Timber Co. in Roseburg, where
he lives with his wife, Susan Jentzsch Greene, ’69.
Dan Chamness, ’69, is chief financial officer of the
Madras School District.
Laura Drew McKay, ’69, is vice president and
manager of treasury management products and
sales for West Coast Bank in Portland.
1970s
Ernest J. Smith, ’70, is vice president of student
services at West Valley College in Saratoga, Calif.
Jack Kreitzer, ’70, Vancouver, Wash., a supervisory
electrical engineer at the Bonneville Power
Administration, received the BPA Exceptional
Service Award last March in Portland.
William Huhta, ’70, writes; “I retired in 2002;
divorced, no children. Busy being a docent at
the Pearson Air Museum, course marshall for
Laguna Seca, crew chief for Porsche in Southern
California (Long Beach), attend Daytona Bike
Weeks, Bonneville Salt Flats world record holder
in m/c streamliner, competed in the 1986 Ironman
Triathlon-Hawaii, ran 25 marathons, many Olympic
distance triathlons and am training to participate in
next year’s Hood-to-Coast relay.”
Connie Helfrich Hackenbruck, ’71, is a real estate
broker with Northwest Realty Consultants in
Corvallis, where she lives with her husband, Terry
Hackenbruck, ’71, owner of Terry Hackenbruck
Construction.
Bob Edwards, ’71, writes: “I represented the OSU
Alumni Board during the mid-’80s from Southern
Idaho/Eastern Oregon. Currently I am the import
sales manager for Boise Cascade’s International
Marketing Group in Boise, Idaho.”
J. Ronald V. Zaneveld, ’71, has been awarded
the 2006 Jerlov Award by The Oceanography
Society for his outstanding contributions to optical
oceanography. He is a professor emeritus of the
OSU College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
and former head of the Ocean Optics group on
campus. He is cofounder of two ocean optic
companies, Seat Tech and Western Environmental
Technology Laboratories. He and his wife, Jackie
Foster Zaneveld, ’77, ’81, live in Corvallis.
Don Judson, ’71, former president and CEO of MidValley Bank was inducted into the Oregon Bankers
Hall of Fame this summer. He and his wife, Rhonda,
live in Woodburn.
Edward Pei, ’71, Honolulu, Hawaii, has been
named to the board of directors of Kaiser
Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Kaiser
Foundation Hospitals. Pei currently serves as
executive vice president of the Consumer Banking
Group of First Hawaiian Bank.
Gerald VanSanten, ’72, recently retired as vice
president, general auditor for Medstar Health of
Columbia, Md. He has moved to Tennessee for
retirement after 30 years in the Washington, D.C.
area.
Sr. Ruth Ella, ’72, recently celebrated her diamond
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alumni profile
Tire marks in the quad
As a youth, he enjoyed many hours under
a car hood, bent over an engine. But the
great outdoors beckoned, so Paul Ingram,
’61, got a degree in wildlife science at OSU
so he could spend his days working in the
fields of Oregon.
He had a 30-year career with the
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife,
retiring as a land-use planning coordinator
in 1991. Instead of working in the field,
though, he spent most of them “behind a
desk or at meetings.”
After retirement, his constant tinkering
with vintage cars eventually lead him back
outside – to the racetrack.
“I’ve always wanted to play with cars,”
Ingram said. “Then a few years ago, a friend
loaned me his race car, and that got me
started racing.”
He heads to the track eight to ten
times a year with either his American-made
1953 Atlas/Ford roadster or a British-built
1965 Lady Bird VI, (at left) which can hit 140
jubilee: 60 years as a member of the Sisters of Notre
Dame de Namur, in Monterey, Calif.
Grant Schoenhard, ’72, is chief scientific officer
at Pain Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical
company in San Francisco, Calif.
John Normandin, ’72, is president of vision Plastics,
Inc., a custom injection molding company in
Wilsonville. His wife, Christine Stewart Normandin,
’73, recently retired from Providence Milwaukie
Foundation.
Sue Wick, ’72, is a professor of plant biology
and director of the
biology program at the
University of Minnesota,
St. Paul, Minn.
Carrie Stone McNeill,
’73, ’75, is a teacher in the
Mapleton School District.
Jean-Marie Blanc,
’73, has retired from
scientific research in
fish genetics in Ustaritz,
France, but he is still
active. “Retirement
allows me to practice
Jean-Marie Blanc, ’73 outdoor activities:
hiking, cycling, canoeing
and community life (secular associations, I am a
Bright).” (http://brightsfrance.free.fr/jean-marie.
blanc.htm).
Tom Warmath, ’73, is a band teacher and junior high
football coach in the Halfway School District.
Charles Ross, ’74, writes: “As the accomplished real
estate agent for Premier Properties on the ridge in
Magalia, Calif., at age 68, Charlie is having too much
fun to retire and looks forward to doing more for
the community he loves. Louise and I would love
to thank our wonderful clients for the opportunity
to build an awesome beach home at Irish Beach in
Mendocino County, our home away from home.
Although we are busy, we are never too busy to
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greet old friends and acquaintances and meet new
friends or our ability to share it with others what
was shared with us. We’d love to connect with
some of the old alumni and if you would like to
know more you can e-mail me. I would very much
appreciate the opportunity to have a link to my
alma mater, OSU. I want to share with others the
knowledge many years of experience has afforded
me.”
Helen Sheffield Ames, ’74, a Monmouth elementary
teacher, was named Central Education Association’s
Elementary Teacher of the Year last spring.
Claire Zemlicka Yackley, ’74, and her husband,
Thomas Yackley, ’76, celebrated their 30th wedding
anniversary on a cruise to Alaska. She writes: “We
recently moved to Eugene, where Tom works for
Olson & Morris Engineering.”
Roger W. Williams, ’74, ’76, is the director of forest
management for the southern region (13 states) of
the U.S. Forest Service, based in Atlanta, Ga.
Brent Stinnett, ’75, Brandon, Miss., is vice president,
resource management at Potlatch Corp., a real estate
investment trust with 1.5 million acres of forestland
in Idaho, Minnesota, Arkansas and Oregon.
Jane Draper Siebler, ’75, ’80, was recently honored
with a distinguished alumni award from LinnBenton Community College in Albany. She has
retired as head adviser and program coordinator for
the OSU Honors College.
Kurt Olsen, ’75, director of the Lincoln City Urban
Renewal Agency was named Professional Planner
of the Year for the State of Oregon by the American
Planning Association. He is president-elect of
the state Association of Oregon Redevelopment
Agencies.
Majd El-Azma, ’75, Lake Oswego, is CEO of
Lifewise Health Plan of Oregon Inc., a Portlandbased health insurance company.
Nola Murri Driskell, ’75, is the head forest engineer
on the Boise National Forest in Idaho. She lives in
Baker City with her husband, Owen Driskell.
mph. Average speed is 80 mph while racing
these valuable cars.
“They frown on trading paint,” Ingram
said. “You can get pulled over and sent
home.” He recently finished fifth in a race at
Maryhill in the Columbia Gorge.
Last year, he attended a vintage race
at an old air base in England where most of
the attendees wore period costumes.
“All these old cars and 50,000 people
all dressed up,” he said. “It was just like you
stepped back in time.”
Ingram is restoring several other
vehicles at his home in Sweet Home, which
he shared for many years with wife, Nina
Krell Ingram, ’62, before her death in 2005.
Included in his collection is the car in which
they courted, a bright red 1933 Ford Victoria
with a souped-up engine.
“It was a hot rod back then,” he said.
Reminiscing about his exploits at OSU,
Ingram hesitated and then pointed to the
Victoria. “I guess the statute of limitations
is over. I put some black marks right in the
middle of the quad one night with that car.”
Tom Hottman, ’75, is public relations and marketing
director for Merle West Medical Center in Klamath
Falls.
Jack Brook, ’76, teaches biology, nutrition, anatomy
and physiology at Mt. Hood Community College
in Gresham. Last year, he was honored with the
Distinguished Teaching Award.
Randy Brown, ’76, writes: “Wendy and I have
downsized to Cedar Hills in southwest Portland and
are very happy after 30 years of marriage!”
Marcus Jerden, ’76, serves as a senior legal counsel
at UniSource Energy Corp. in Tucson, Ariz.,
specializing in environmental and land use law.
His wife, Evelyn, is a CPA and telecom industry
executive. They reside in the Catalina Foothills near
Tucson with their two children.
Evvalynn Aldrich Barnes, ’76, writes: “I am
completing my third year as the director of special
education in the Ketchikan (Alaska) Gateway
Borough School District. I will complete my career
(30 years) next June.”
Holly Graves Nelson, ’77, is a Realtor with Pete
Anderson Realty in Pacific City.
Max Falls, ’77, is the transportation engineer for the
Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in Arkansas.
Al Chick, ’78, is president of Northwest Medical
Partners and Acro-Tech Medical, both medical
equipment and supply marketing firms. Al and
his wife Mary live on five acres north of Vancouver,
Wash., and their son, James, is a junior at OSU. Mary Burghardt Barry, ’78, Ramona, Calif., has
been named vice president of Clinical Laboratory
Operations at AviaraDx, a molecular cancer profiling
company headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif.
Anne Leonard Hartline, ’78, is principal of
McKinleyville Middle School in McKinleyville, Calif.
Bob Scherpelz, ’78, a health physicist at Pacific
Northwest National Laboratories in Richland,
Wash., is serving on the Assistance Working Group
helping less-developed countries plan responses for
radiological emergencies.
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Paul Telfer, ’78, Monmouth, was recently honored
by Marion County with the Career Firefighter of
the Year award and the Gerry Frank Award for
Meritorious Achievement.
Steve B. Williams, ’78, is executive director of
human resource and support service for the
Woodburn School District.
Barb Whisenhunt Koontz, ’79, is a financial advisor
at OSU Federal Investment Services in Corvallis.
Ian Hawes, ’79, ’81, writes: “I have been the general
manager for Portland Sash & Door. I have served
on the board of the Oregon Remodelers Association
for the past six years, currently as board chair. I
stay in contact with many of my fraternity brothers
of Acacia. I was president of the alumni board and
helped start a fund raising project to remodel the
entire house. My hobbies include golf, watching the
Beavers beat Notre Dame (twice) and my garden
to produce my summer crop of tomatoes and
raspberries.”
Rick Gardner, ’79, is director of the Clatsop
Community College’s Business Solutions Center at
Seaside.
Tom Boehme, ’79, ’86, is principal of Centralia High
School in Centralia, Wash.
1980s
Gary Nuss, ’80, ’82, Keller, Texas, is senior vice
president and managing principal for Water
Infrastructure Programs at Carter & Burgess, Inc.
Kent Purdy, ’80, writes that he is “a staff pharmacist
at Silverton Hospital, which was recently named one
of the country’s top 100 hospitals.”
Mark Whitham, ’80, is the Oregon Sea Grant product
development specialist for the Community Seafood
Initiative, headquartered at the OSU Seafood
Consumer Center in Astoria.
Dave Liesse, ’81, writes: “I am quality manager for
SS&C Technologies, Inc., in Chicago, Ill. Recently
elected vice president of the National Model
Railroad Association. Past club president and zone
lieutenant governor, now leadership development
chair and director of personal growth for Illinois
District of Optimist International.”
K.C. Klosterman, ’81, is the president of Eugene
Sand & Gravel.
Mack Stilson, ’81, is controller of ID Branding in
Portland.
Brent Belveal, ’82, ’89, is assistant principal at West
Albany High School.
Donald A. Robert, ’82, is CEO of Experian Group,
Costa Mesa, Calif.
Floyd Blackwill, ’82, Vero Beach, Fla., writes: “I am
enterprise project manager for Pitney Bowes for the
southeast area. During my 22 years in the software
industry, I have held positions in development,
consulting, management, and sales. Currently, I
reside in Vero Beach with my wife of 18 years and
my two children.”
James P. Clark, ’82, is executive vice president/chief
credit officer at Oregon Pacific Bank in Florence.
Paul C. Bell, ’82, Monmouth, is the head of the fire
protection and state forest management department
of the Oregon Department of Forestry.
Carol Robertson Bispham, ’83, is a Circuit Court
Judge for Linn County. She was recently honored
with a distinguished alumni award from LinnBenton Community College in Albany.
Dean R. Clemons, ’83, is a colonel in the U.S. Air
Force and commanding officer of the 96th Air Base
Wing, Air Force Material Command, Eglin Air Force
Base, Fla. It is the U.S. Air Force’s largest installation
in the world.
Harold Davis, ’83, a commander with the Naval
Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md.,
was appointed lead test engineer for the Navy’s
new acquisition P-8A Maritime Patrol and
Reconnaissance aircraft. He received a master’s
degree in systems engineering this year from Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
Janet Lockhart, ’84, ’99, is a speech language
specialist with the Willamette Education Service
District in Salem. She co-authored a book, The
Power of Words: Examining Language of Ethnic, Gender
and Sexual Orientation Bias, which was recently
nominated for a distinguished achievement award
by the Association of Educational Publishers.
Thomas Jolliff, ’84, was recently named manager in
the safety services department at The ICW Group in
San Diego, Calif.
Abhi Talwalkar, ’85, is president and CEO of LSI
Logic Corp. in San Jose, Calif.
Howard Stidwill, ’85, of St. Charles, Ill., has recently
written a book, Exercise Therapy for Cancer Patients:
A Guide for Patients and Professionals, published by
Champion Press.
Michael Gennette, ’85, is executive director of
Achievekids, a mental health and special education
agency in Palo Alto, Calif.
Randy A. Kee, ’85, recently returned from a one-year
deployment as commander, 379th Air Expeditionary
Wing, Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, where he led
the main military presence in Central Asia. He is a
colonel in the U.S. Air Force, assigned to the policy
directorate on the joint staff at the Pentagon.
David Courtney, ’86, is superintendent of Harney
county School District No. 3 in Burns.
Kim McClusky Dolan, ’86, moved to Phoenix, Ariz.,
to take a region director position with the healthcare
group purchasing organization Premier, Inc.
Stacey Guntner, ’87, is a professor of animal science
in the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
in Hope, Ark.
Rene Pare, ’86,owns Penniesworth Acres Nursery
and Mountain View Landscaping in Grants Pass.
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Maker of music makers
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more choices,” Kenagy said.
“I work with original equipment
She used to skip class during her high
manufacturers to make sure they are made
school years in Corvallis and bike to the
correctly,” she said before a recent trip to
Memorial Union to listen to the Thursday
Asia to meet with engineers who build the
noon concerts in the lounge. Later, while
new Steinways.
a mechanical engineering student at OSU,
She also led a team of designers in
she studied piano with music professor
New York and Korea to create another
Angela Carlson.
moderately priced line, the Essex.
But Susan Kenagy, ’88, could not
Recently, former OSU president John
have imagined a career where she creates
Byrne and his wife, Shirley Byrd, traveled
music as a piano engineer for the legendary
to New York with OSU music professor
Steinway & Sons in New York.
Rachelle McCabe to select a nine-foot
“I always loved tinkering, fixing things
Steinway concert grand piano that was
mechanical with my Dad at his work bench,” commissioned through donations for the
Kenagy said.
LaSells Stewart Center.
When she began at Steinway, her
“I was able to meet with them when
job was to figure out ways to improve
they came to choose their piano from the
the manufacturing process. But when
ones that were available,” Kenagy said.
the 153-year-old firm decided to create a
“That was fun.”
new line of pianos that would sell in the
A special Steinway Piano Celebration
mid-price range – the Boston line – Kenagy
Concert Series is being held this year on
and a colleague were asked to design the
campus to introduce the instrument to local
instrument.
audiences. More information is available at
The original top-of-the line Steinways,
oregonstate.edu/lasells/.
which are built in New York and Germany,
Kenagy lives with her family on Long
are of a quality that prices them beyond
Island and comes back to Oregon for two
many consumers. “These lines give people
weeks every August to visit her parents.
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Joy Millam McReynolds, ’86, completed a
master’s degree in school librarianship at Azusa
Pacific University in July, 2005. She was selected
by students and staff to be Teacher of the Year at
Valencia High School.
Jennifer Seeman Jackenthal, ’86, is cofounder and
CEO of My Girlfriend’s Kitchen, a take-and-bake
store with 31 franchises
in 16 states. She lives in
Park City, Utah, with
her husband, Ron
Jackenthal, and their
two children.
Dick Sharp, ’86, is vice
president of human
resources for Clear
Choice Heath Plans in
Bend.
Betsy Moore Bareilles,
’87, Eureka, Calif., writes:
“I am working as an
Jennifer Jackenthal ’86
associate administrator
for the California Dept.
of Transportation; married to Paul with a 3-year old
daughter named Melody.”
Jack Flug, ’89, is director of finance at EasyStreet
Online in Beaverton.
Brenda Broadbent, ’88, teaches family and
consumer science classes at Scio High School.
JoDana Bright-Taylor, ’88, is an OSU Extension
Service master gardener and manager of the
Lincoln City Community Garden.
Lisa Lindquist Elsener, ’88, is controller of Neil
Kelly Co. in Portland.
Rich Harrison, ’89, is regional vice president,
Midwest of Belron Inc., Denver, Colo.
Tim J. Allen, ’89, is a commander in the U.S.
Navy, currently serving as a warfare analyst at the
Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He recently served
six months in Iraq as maritime liaison to the British
Army headquarters.
1990s
Anthony Simon, ’90, has opened a private dental
practice in The Dalles.
Edward Knudson, ’90, ’91, is the vice president
of student learning for Bakersfield College in
California.
Jon Mishra, ’90, is principal of Sunset Middle
School in Coos Bay.
Brenda Weathersby, ’91, works for the USDA
Forest Service in Jackson, Miss., where she and
her husband, Marc Weathersby, practice organic
gardening techniques. “Love the South, but hate the
bugs,” she writes.
Kirby Kleinsmith, ’90, is a financial planner with
Valentine Ventures, LLC in Bend.
Aaron Brown, ’91, is district superintendent and
high school principal in the Lowell School District.
He lives in Canyonville with his wife, Leslie, and
their sons.
Amy Bollman Lowery, ’91, Dallas, is co-owner of
the Bollman Funeral Home and Dallas Mortuary
Tribute Center, and president of the Oregon Funeral
Directors Association.
Susan Martin Warner, ’91, is teaching business at
Lakeview High School.
Douglas D. Cox, ’92, is construction coordinator at
The Trada Group in Boise, Idaho.
Lily Supardan, ’92, writes: “I work in operations
for an online real estate company, Redfin.com.
Currently living in Seattle with my partner, Shon
McLeod, a UW (ACK! A Husky!!) alum. … I also
defend the Beavs on a regular basis up here – that’s
a full time job in itself!”
Sean Lowery, ’92, Wilsonville, is owner and
executive director of InnoTech Oregon Conference
& Exposition.
Lisa Enright Welch, ’92, is principal at Mercer
Health and Benefits in Portland.
Nathan Potter, ’92, ’97, Beaverton, is currently
serving as part of the Combined Joint Task Force
Phoenix V in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Lisa Cooper Owens, ’92, is an account planning
manager for Adidas and lives in West Linn with her
husband, Bill, and daughter, Hailey.
Rick DeFerrari, ’92, is owner of Francois Freres
d’Oregon, a wine barrel stave factory in Lafayette.
Eric K. Rockett, ’93, is owner of a nuclear generator
consulting firm called Rockett Science Inc. in
Richland, Wash.
Michael Wengel, ’93, is executive vice president
and CFO of North Bay Bancorp in Napa, Calif.
Kevin Bauer, ’93, is the general manager of
automotive for Yahoo! Europe. His wife, Heidi
DeHaan Bauer, ’93, is a Town & Country Regional
Policy Planner. They live in Cambridge, England
with their three large dogs. Tara Boehler Schnell, ’93, is living in Sun Prairie,
Wisc., with her husband, Robert, and two young
sons. She is a microbiologist with the University
of Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in
Madison.
Ulanda Watkins, ’93, is a partner in the Portland
law firm of Walker, Warren and Watkins.
Galen H. Church, ’94, is a family practice
osteopathic physician and a major assigned to the
60th Medical Group, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield,
Calif. He is serving in Iraq.
Mark Martin, ’94, ’97, and his wife, Laura
Bryngelson, ’96, are owners of a microbrewery,
Calapooia Brewing Co., in Albany.
Summer Stinson, ’94, and her husband, Simon
Ravona, welcomed their son, Asher, on July 25,
2006. Summer is an employment lawyer for Paul,
Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in San Francisco.
Blain Grover, ’96, is a construction manager for
Skanska USA in Portland. He is also associate
principal second violinist for the Oregon Pro Arte
Chamber Orchestra.
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Devin Hearing, ’96, is the senior planner with the
City of Prineville.
Jason Pittman, ’96, ’99, is an assistant professor of
geology and geography at Folsom Lake College in
Folsom, Calif.
Jennifer J. Lyon, ’97, Encino, Calif., was seen on the
TV show “Survivor: Palau” this past summer. She
was recently the grand marshal of the “Walk for the
Cause of Breast Cancer Awareness” in Albany.
Norman Suverly, ’97, ’00, is a Washington State
University Extension Agent for Okanogan County in
Omak, Wash.
Susan Clarke Normington, ’97, Vancouver, Wash.,
has joined her brother’s company at Usnaps.com, a
unique photo booth service.
Tege May Sauer, ’97, is director of marketing at
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in Redmond and was the
championship director of the U.S. Women’s Amateur
held there in August.
Ben Bertrand, ’98, is rehabilitation services manager
at St. Elizabeth Health Services in Baker City.
Grady O’Connor, ’98, track & field coach at Lane
Community College in Eugene, was named women’s
track coach of the year last May, by the Northwest
Athletic Association of Community Colleges.
Kelly Sims Nelson, ’98, is a project engineer at Lease
Crutcher Lewis in Portland.
Bob Tarr, ’98, is a math teacher at Seaside High
School.
Travis Cutter, ’98, is loan office at Countrywide
Home Loans in Boise, Idaho.
Don W. McMoran, ’99, ’00, is a Washington State
University Extension and Research Unit agriculture
and natural resources educator for Skagit County. He
lives with his wife, Ami, in Mount Vernon, Wash.
Dr. Katy Paul, ’99, ’06, has started practicing at the
Harney County Veterinary Clinic in Burns.
Lisa C. Macy, ’99, is a special education teacher and
girls tennis coach at McMinnville High School.
Matthew B. DeVore, ’99, has completed his law
degree at Willamette University in Salem.
Nathan Campbell, ’99, is a captain in the U.S. Air
Force and is currently flying the KC-10 at Travis Air
Force Base in California. His wife, Kodi Brunner
Campbell, ’99, works in the student affairs office
at U.C. Davis. They live in Vacaville with their son,
Nolan.
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Cassie Bouska, ’00, ’04, is a staff research associate
at the Coos County OSU Extension Service in Myrtle
Point.
M. John Gaudette, ’00, writes: “I have taken a
position as a consultant in Irvine, Calif., with the
nation’s largest physician recruiting firm.”
Erin Hansell Heideman, ’00, ’07, teaches science at
Ione Community School.
Janice Nave Abele, ’00, is a broker at The Prudential
Real Estate Professionals in Corvallis.
Mitch Magenhimer, ’00, is an investment
representative with Edward Jones in Molalla.
Patti Micheo, ’00, is a guidance counselor in the
Seaside School District.
Sara McAlister, ’00, received her graduate certificate
in public health from the University of Wollongong
in Australia. She is now working in Pakenham,
Victoria, Australia, as a food security project officer
for two local council areas.
Andrea Juhl Janney, ’01, is deputy district attorney
of Klamath County. She and her husband live in
Klamath Falls, with their son, Christopher.
Brandy Brown, ’01, is an admissions counselor at
Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls.
Alicia Fritz, ’01, ’03, is a first grade teacher at Oak
Heights School in Sweet Home.
Courtney Gardner Murphy, ’01, is athletic director
at Sandy High School.
Jason Adams, ’01, is a partner in Alterra Investments,
developing homes in Bend.
Linh Chau, ’01, is a pharmacist and manager of the
Fred Meyer pharmacy in Sandy where he also owns
a Quiznos restaurant.
Matt Freeman, ’01, is project manager at HSW
Builders in Bend.
Alisha Jones, ’01, teaches second grade at Lincoln
Elementary School in Coquille.
Sr. Crystal Clark, ’01, professed her first vows at the
Holy Names Chapel at Mary’s Woods, Marylhurst.
She grew up in Toledo and went to Seattle for a
mission year, where she studied at Seattle University
and volunteered with Refugee Women’s Alliance in
their anti-human trafficking office.
Sena Norton, ’02, Portland, is a middle school
teacher and president of the Wy’East Education
Association in the Oregon Trail School District.
Jeff Mabry, ’02, graduated in May from the College
of Dental Medicine at Nova Southeastern University
in Davie, Fla. He lives in Portland with his wife,
Mahkameh.
Renee Rensmeyer, ’02, is youth programs
coordinator at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in
Newport.
Tyler Tietz, ’02, is a small business specialist at Wells
Fargo Bank in Beaverton.
Autumn Goerts Georgiev, ’03, is a graduate
assistant in the College of Communication at Hawaii
Pacific University in Honolulu. Her husband, Alex
Georgiev, ’01, is a network systems administrator at
Hawaii Pacific Health.
Brian Wilkinson, ’03, graduated in May of 2006
from the University of Southern California with a
doctorate in physical therapy.
Kevin D. Cox, ’03, is owner of three assisted living
facilities, located in Bend, Eugene and Spokane,
Wash. He lives in Bend with his wife, Jenny, and
their two sons.
Linda D. White, ’03, ’06, Coos Bay, is the
horticultural extension agent for Coos and Curry
counties.
Beverly J. Nelson, ’03, graduated this year with a
master’s degree in creative writing from the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Peter M. Bunce, ’03, is a CPA with Spectrum CPA
Group LLP in Corvallis.
Greg Ostrin, ’04, is a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S.
Marine Corps. He was deployed to Iraq last spring.
Joshua Kvidt, ’04, is a commercial loan officer at
Citizens Bank in Corvallis.
Kelli Swanson Backer, ’04, is a science teacher and
volleyball coach at West Albany High School.
Linda Jauron-Mills, ’04, Portland, is owner of Antara
W Consulting, advising corporations on sustainable
production and practices.
Ron C. Moore, ’04, is athletic trainer for Grants Pass
High School.
Scott Gall, ’04, Scappoose, is the watershed
technical specialist for the Columbia Soil and Water
Conservation District.
B.J. Anderson, ’05, is the industrial arts teacher at
Lakeview High School.
Erica Wood Garren, ’05, is a sales representative for
DLF International Seeds Inc. in Halsey.
Natalie Downing Richie, ’05, is youth coordinator
for the City of Longview, Wash.
Lise Larsen, ’05, is teaching second grade at St.
Mary’s Academy in The Dalles.
Nancy Duong, ’05, is a design associate at Neil Kelly
Company Design/Build Remodeling in Portland.
Rob Holderness, ’05, is a sports writer at the Stayton
Mail and Appeal Tribune.
Danielle Freimuth, ’05, ’06, teaches Spanish at
Willamina High School.
Justus Poling, ’05, is an
assistant loan officer at
Bank of Clark County in
Vancouver, Wash.
Robert Krueger,
’05, operates his
occupational therapy
practice, OnSite Works,
in Neskowin.
Jessica J. Anderson, ’05,
is a customer service
associate for the rental
operations at Brasada
Nancy Duong, ’05 Ranch, a residential golf
resort in Crook County.
Samatha Negus Parks, ’05, is a science teacher at
North Lake School in Lakeview.
Chris Dale, ’06, Corvallis, is a junior software
engineer at Alsea Geospatial Inc.
Dr. Fiona I. Hillenbrand, ’06, has begun practice
at the Pendleton Veterinary Clinic. She became a
member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
in Great Britain this past summer.
Whitney Johnson, ’06, is a writer at the News-Times
in McMinnville.
Jamie Rupprecht, ’06, is a design associate at Neil
Kelly Co., in Portland.
Dr. Tawnia Shaw, ’06, has joined Everett Veterinary
Hospital in Klamath Falls.
Gina Kerzman, ’06, is working for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources
Conservation Service as coordinator of the ColumbiaBlue Mountain Resource Conservation and
Development Council in Pendleton.
Lauren Sugarman, ’06, is office manager at Financial
Advisors-KMS & Cambridge in Vancouver, Wash.
Joe Lindsay, ’06, is a music teacher in the Heppner
School District.
Sarah Collins, ’07, is a teacher at Humbolt
Elementary School in Seaside.
Marriages
Jerry Cotter, ’49, and G. Helene Holtzinger, Dallas.
David L. Willis, ’63, and Ruth E. Vincent,
McMinnville.
Paul Giacomelli, ’74, and Kimberly Carson,
Klamath Falls.
Leland Ford, ’78, ’87, and Susan Ford, Salem.
Ed Dolan and Kim McClusky, ’86, Phoenix, Ariz.
Michael Dubb, ’88, and Connie Nokelby, Astoria.
Don Mespelt, ’93, and Paula Stinnett, Seaside.
Jason Lee and Wendy Rise, ’93, Long Beach, Calif.
Gary McGuire, ’96, and Amber Davidson,
Sweet Home.
Joe Lovato and Leslie Ruminski, ’96, Lake Oswego.
Jason Boyd, ’97, and Koosje Lysen, ’05,
Roseville, Calif.
Casey Waage, ’99, and Darcie LaMotte, Beaverton.
Christian Greig, ’99, and Janel Holroyd, ’01, Renton,
Wash.
Andrew Cardinal, ’01, and Melanie Sauerwald,
Medford.
Cody Peak, ’01, and Darcy Danna, Portland.
Linc Sprinkel and Katharine Hamlin, ’01, Hillsboro.
Nathan Sweet and Dyami Hobbs, ’02,
Renton, Wash.
Gary Allen and Cameron Suter, ’01, Talent.
Kevin Margeson, ’01, and Jami Roberts, Gresham.
Matthew Taintor and Shireen Soltani, ’01, ’06, Auke
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Bay, Alaska.
Kevin Mullerleile and Alicia Stocker, ’02, Eugene.
Robert Witt, ’02, and Angela Hoerner, Salem.
Jeff Mabry, ’02, and Mahkameh Moini, Portland.
Kyle Kostman, ’02, and Rachel Bradley, ’02,
Eagle Point.
Nathan Hunter, ’02, and Alison Naymik, ’01, Keizer.
Daniel Bennetts and Morgan Tyler, ’03,
Klamath Falls.
Daryl Fletcher and Roxanne Johnson, ’03, Molalla.
Dan Rothwell, ’04, ’06, and Carolyn Warnke, ’03,
Corvallis.
Andrew Stucky and Erin Gardner, ’04, Salem.
Darren Hart and Rebecca Pedersen, ’04,
Brownsville.
Luke Hatfield, ’04, and Mandy Ruhn, ’05, Albany.
J.D. Leininger, ’05, and Iwalani Jackson, Hillsboro.
James Brookhyser, ’05, and Laurel Wheeler, ’06,
Milwaukie.
Craig DiNitto, ’06, and Alyn Pool, Independence.
Nathan Pyles and Katie Deckelmann, ’06, Prescott
Valley, Ariz.
Evan Johnson, ’06, and Melissa Snyder, ’06,
Washington, D.C.
Russell Bartlett and Sara Messenger, ’06, Corvallis.
Keith Prickett and Rachel Burke, ’06, Corvallis.
Ryan O’Connell, ’06 and Madelyn Huntley, Eugene.
Christopher Lary, ’06, and Shawnie Lavelle, ’04,
Vancouver, Wash.
Kevin McKinley, ’06, and Arin Schroeder, Portland.
Obituaries
Helen Griffee Goodale, ’26, Los Angeles, Calif.
Loleta Broders Richardson, ’29, Marysville, Calif.
Kappa Delta
Inez Biersdorf Rice, ’29, Cardiff, Calif.
Clarabelle Mintonye Huntington, ’28, Corvallis.
Alpha Delta Pi
Rose Weinstein Olds, ’30, Portland.
Mildred McDermott Brady, ’30, Pasco, Wash. Delta
Zeta
Florence Scott Hollingsworth, ’31, ’32, Lincoln,
Mass. She was 100 years old.
Amy Aldrich Bedford, ’33, Pendleton. She
received the Governor’s Arts Award in 1988, the
International Citizen Award from the World Affairs
Council of Oregon in 1996 and was named a
Woman of Achievement by the Oregon Commission
for Women in 1998.
Merritt M. Nash, ’33, Spokane, Wash. Sigma Phi
Epsilon
Fred D. Moss, ’36, Wilsonville. Beta Theta Pi
Roy H. Lippert, ’36, Fresno, Calif. Delta Chi
Edith Boehm Mayer, ’37, Boise, Idaho.
Loisel Haas Bride, ’37, McMinnville. Kappa Delta
Elton G. Nelson Sr, ’37, ’46, Sacramento, Calif. Phi
Kappa Psi
Herbert P. Rooper, ’37, King City.
Max M. Bocek, ’37, ’38, Yakima, Wash.
F. Wildon Colbaugh, ’38, Canby.
Dr. Noel V. Rawls, ’38, Spokane.
Lenn M. Pierson, ’38, Claremont, Calif. Kappa Delta
Rho
Meredith Wilber Saxton Davis, ’38, Lacey, Wash.
Pi Beta Phi
Alton E. Alspaugh, ’39, Portland. He died Sept. 14
and his wife, Dorothy McCreery Alspaugh, ’40,
died Sept. 15. Alpha Chi Omega
William H. Stewart, ’39, Milwaukie.
Leslie W. Cole, ’39, Portland.
Jean McElhinny Nelson, ’39, Mt. Angel.
Dana P. Berghuis, ’39, Sequim, Wash.
Winter 2007
Kemble H. Tellefson, ’39, ’62, Milton Freewater.
He died in August and his wife, Connie Smiley
Tellefson, ’39, died in March. Alpha Gamma Rho
Francis P. Jacquemin, ’40, Hillsboro.
Rinaldo J. Brun, ’40, Strongsville, OH. Kappa Delta
Rho
E. Neal Elliott, ’40, Redmond. Delta Upsilon
Paul Astleford, ’40, Gaston.
Frank N. Eastwood, ’40, Westminster, Calif.
E. Haven Tryon, ’40, St. Louis, Mo.
Fred R. McMillan, ’40, North Bend. Sigma Phi
Epsilon
Earl “Jiggs” Johnson, ’41, Sweet Home.
Jesse B. Holladay, ’41, Saint George, Utah.
Frank D. Chown, ’41, Portland. He was an OSU
Foundation Trustee from 1981-1987. Sigma Alpha
Epsilon
Victor W. Sears, ’41, Winston-Salem, N.C. Phi Sigma
Kappa
Arline Funke Hultengren, ’42, Portland.
Jean Purtzer Stewart, ’42, Corvallis.
Neil W. Newhouse, ’42, Wilsonville.
Ralph D. Brasen, ’42, Seattle, Wash. Sigma Chi
Donald H Stewart, ’43, Walla Walla, Wash. Alpha
Gamma Rho
Richard A. Bjorndal, ’43, Sonoma, Calif. Delta
Upsilon
Edward A. Schaefers, ’43, Bellevue, Wash. Phi
Gamma Delta
William H. Oberteuffer, ’43, ’60, La Grande.
Horace E. Getz, ’44, Antioch, Calif. Theta Xi
John D. Dugan Jr., ’44, Cottage Grove. Kappa Delta
Rho
Louise Tensen Peterson, ’44, Lancaster, Calif. Delta
Delta Delta
Arlene Gay Oliver, ’44, John Day.
Tom B. Henshaw, ’44, Portland. Remembrances
may be made to Phi Gamma Delta at the OSU
Foundation, Corvallis, OR, 97331. Phi Gamma Delta
Arvon M. Griffith, ’45, Hendersonville, N.C.
Anna St. Clair McCann, ’45, Vancouver, Canada
Chelsea G. Browne, ’46, Kirkland. Delta Tau Delta
Peter T. Wolfe, ’46, Coquille. Sigma Pi
Robert L. Kroll, ’47, Kennett Square, Pa.
Robert R. Harvey, ’47, Twin Falls, Idaho. Phi Sigma
Kappa
Benson C. Mitchell Jr., ’48, Newberg.
Alma Gambee Gallagher, ’48, Silverton.
Bruce A. Elmgren, ’49, Portland.
Ralph E. Burns, ’49, ’57, Walterville.
Douglas S. Smith, ’49, ’67, Grants Pass. Phi Delta
Theta
Nannette Burroni Keys, ’49, Sacramento, Calif.
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Rev. Ernest C. Markman, ’49, Andover, Mass. Pi
Kappa Phi
Melvin D. Knorr, ’49, Redmond, Wash. Pi Kappa Phi
Eugene H. Schaudt, ’50, Eugene. He was the
president of the OSU Alumni Association in 1973-74.
Keith L. Fowler, ’50, Richland, Wash. Tau Beta Pi
Loretta Ohling Stringer, ’50, Albany.
Edwin T. Fleming, ’50, Saratoga, Calif. Phi Sigma
Kappa
Marilyn Harris Robinson, ’50, Portland. Alpha Phi
Ralph G. Beardslee, ’50, Estero, Fla.
Albert K. Van Etten, ’50, Lacey, Wash. Delta Chi
Ed W. Coulson Jr., ’50, Davis, Calif.
John J. Vossen, ’50, Battle Ground, Wash.
Ralph L. Swan, ’50, Portland.
Edward R. Floyd, ’50, Colton.
Trostel G. Werth, ’50, ’68, Portland.
Wesley S. Hicks, ’50, Skamokawa, Wash.
Allen K. Haller, ’51, Des Moines, Wash. Kappa
Sigma
Charles C. Kittle, ’51, Portland.
Raymond M. Luthy, ’51, Portland. Theta Xi
Georgia Maletis Miller, ’51, Charlotte, N.C. Kappa
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Kappa Gamma
James W. Kahrs, ’51, Osage Beach, Mo. Sigma Nu
Ralph E. Mussler, ’51, Salem.
Donald S. Goodrich, ’51, Sun City, Calif.
Lavern M. Heeszel, ’51, Portland. Phi Sigma Kappa
Walter J. Marquess, ’51, Medford.
Leta Shinn Galloway, ’51, San Diego, Calif.
Richard G. Holcomb, ’51, St. Francisville, La.
Lambda Chi Alpha
James M. Ray, ’52, Santa Clara, Calif.
Donald N. Brown, ’52, Richmond, Va. Phi Gamma
Delta
Glenn L. Burchfield, ’53, Medford.
Lloyd G. Honeysette, ’53, Salem.
Barbara Grier Scott, ’54, Grants Pass. Pi Beta Phi
Richard K. McCulloch, ’54, Eagle Point. Kappa Sigma
Arthur “Gordon” Wyatt, ’55, Springfield.
Wallace E. Longmire, ’55, ’63, Tucson, Ariz.
Mary Monjay Murphy, ’56, Elma, Wash. Kappa Delta
Richard F. Taylor, ’56, Carson City, Nev. Delta Chi
James M. Davidson, ’56, ’58, Gainesville, Fla. Kappa
Delta Rho
Nina Hope Morley, ’57, Toronto, Canada.
Shirley Lyman Spiruta, ’57, Albany.
Duncan “Duke” Faus, ’58, Pacific Grove, Calif.
Harold A. Schrupp, ’58, Costa Mesa, Calif.
James M. Olsen, ’58, Sublimity.
Daniel S. Chandler, ’58, Bozeman, Mont.
Ron L. Anderson, ’58, Portland. Pi Kappa Phi
Jerry L. Colburn, ’58, Seattle, Wash.
Randall L. Brown, ’59, ’60, Fair Oaks, Calif.
Joseph A. Jensen, ’60, Ocean View, Hawaii, died in
January and his wife, Gloria Kraft Jensen, ’59, died
in May.
Gary L. Hunt, ’60, Oregon City.
Thomas R. Uppendahl, ’60, Sisters.
Alfred Meyer, ’60, John Day.
Tommy D. King, ’60, Pinehurst, N.C.
Walter D. Monger, ’61, Roseburg.
Clarence E. Dallimore, ’62, Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Dale E. McKennie, ’62, Redmond.
John A. Kennedy, ’62, Gorham, Maine. Sigma Nu
Benjamin F. Jacobs, ’64, Birmingham, Ala. Kappa Psi
Robert D. Macpherson, ’65, Shedd.
Edmond L. Searcy, ’66, ’69, Salem.
Joseph S. Wepukhulu, ’66, Kampala, Uganda.
Donald D. Rittenbach, ’66, Kalama, Wash.
Richard J. Stevenson, ’67, Napa, Calif. Delta Sigma
Phi
Findlay M. Pate, ’67, Wanchula, Fla.
Jeanine Langmack Shanks, ’67, Lebanon. Kappa
Delta
Linda J. Nims, ’68, Albuquerque, N.M.
John W. Anderson Jr., ’68, Medford, N.J. Lambda
Chi Alpha
Paulette Newcomb Sharp, ’69, Mesa, Ariz.
Jens W. Lyche, ’70, ’73, Seattle.
Peter L. Wise, ’71, Chicago, Ill.
Rita Hanson Ulrich, ’71, Neotsu.
Elizabeth J. Seaton, ’72, ’76, McMinnville.
Aaron K. Yoshimoto, ’72, Ontario.
John C. Schafer, ’72, Sitka, Alaska.
Thomas A. Oswald, ’72, Cheney, Wash. The former
football player and graduate assistant coach at OSU
was a high school coach for 27 years in Cheney.
The Eastern Washington University football team
dedicated its game at OSU to his memory.
David H. Worthington, ’74, Keizer.
Henry M. Uberecken, ’74, Spring, Texas.
Roger D. Kauble, ’74, Hood River.
Gwendolyn Witherspoon Henderson, ’75, ’76,
Fletcher, N.C.
Joan Jones Knapp, ’78, Corvallis.
Dr. P. Jane Egger, ’79, ’83, Petersburg, Alaska.
Ethel Leskinen Maxwell, ’79, Rainier.
Nancy Ebert Davis, ’80, Keizer.
Wayne W. Kuske, ’81, Astoria.
Robert C. Proudfoot, ’81, ’84, Eugene.
C. Bradley Smith, ’82, Albany.
James W. King, ’82, Port Charlotte, Fla.
Craig R. Burnham, ’84, Hillsboro.
Jennie Anderson Swanson, ’84, West Linn.
Belaid Mahiou, ’87, ’90, Lenexa, Kan.
David R. Garrison, ’87, Salem.
Teresa Weber Gross, ’88, Albany.
Holly M. Stewart, ’89, Portland.
Gary E. Bunger, ’91, Bend.
Derek D. Krassin, ’92, Kealakekua, Hawaii.
Jeffery R. Gray Jr., ’03, Portland. Sigma Pi Epsilon
Justin W. Brady, ’04, Philomath. He died in an
accident while on assignment with the Peace Corps
in Africa.
Jonathan Olson, ’04, Hillsboro. He was a graduate
student in electrical and computer engineering.
Mark P. Koszky, ’05, Portland.
Randall K. Saito, ’06, Ontario.
Rheannon Hill, ’06, Corvallis. She was a graduate
student in environmental science.
Jeffrey Schmidt, Medford. He was a senior in
geography.
Quinn Do Truong, Tigard. She was a sophomore in
merchandising management.
Jedidiah N. Morse, Eugene. He was a senior in
electrical and electronics engineering.
Faculty & friends
Ataa A. Akyeampong, ’86, Corvallis. She was an
assistant professor, assistant director of the OSU
Office of Affirmative Action and director of the
McNair Scholars program.
Virginia Hall Blaha Baldoni, McMinnville.
Mabel Damm Benscoter, Ontario.
John Beuter, Corvallis. He was a professor in the
College of Forestry for 18 years, also serving as a
researcher, director of the college’s research forests,
a department chair and associate dean. In 1976 he
released the landmark “Beuter Report,” the first
long-term look at the supply and demand of timber
in Oregon.
Lyle D. Calvin, Corvallis. He came to OSU in 1953
as an associate professor in the School of Agriculture,
served as chair of the Department of Statistics from
1962 to 1981, was dean of the graduate school from
1981 to 1988 and initiated the OSU Survey Research
Center in 1973.
Keith F. Chadwick, Caldwell, Idaho.
Patricia L. Chadwick, Portland. She taught nursing
at OSU.
Rosalind Kautz Coplen, Longview, Wash.
Dr. Earl O. Dickinson, Lincoln, Neb. He was
associate dean in the School of Veterinary Medicine
from 1973 to 1977.
Virginia Rowland Finzer, Astoria. Kappa Kappa
Gamma
Rudolph J. Hakala, Tillamook. Alpha Tau Omega
Bert W. Kronmiller Jr., Woodburn. Remembrances
can be made to the OSU Athletic Scholarship Fund
c/o OSU Foundation, Corvallis, OR 97331.
Joanne Carlsen Martinson, Gresham.
Maxine E. McDowell, Portland. She was house
mother at the Varsity House from 1982 to 1995.
H. Joe Myers, ’48, Salem. He was an extension agent
in Linn and Marion counties.
Jack Pederson, Molalla. Alpha Gamma Rho
Alice Cochran Shelton, Albany.
Samuel G. Smith, Roseburg. Sigma Nu
Mary Elrod Solis, Rescue, Calif. Kappa Alpha Theta
Peter W. Tsacoyeanes, Las Vegas, Nev.
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Thank you kindly.
Pop Quiz answer
From page 8
(a): There are 4 aces in a deck of cards and
16 cards that are either a face or a 10. For
each draw, the probability that you get an
ace is 1 in 13 and the probability of getting
either a face card or a 10 is 4 in 13. To find
the probability of getting 21, we add the
chance of drawing an ace first and a 10 or
face card second to the chance of drawing a
10 or face card first and an ace second:
[(4/52) × (16/52)] + [(16/52) × (4/52)]
The answer reduces to 8 in 169 or 4.73%.
(b): Now, since we have not replaced the first
drawn card, only 51 cards remain. Thus the
odds are slightly better in the second draw.
Again, add the individual probabilities:
[(4/52) × (16/51)] + [(16/52) × (4/51)]
Thus the probability (without replacement) of
getting 21 reduces to 32 in 663, or 4.83%.
Thanks again to math instructor Amy S. Van
Wey, who leaves us with a wise admonition:
“As you can see by the odds, gambling
is not for those with knowledge of
mathematics.”
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