Fall 2006 - Linfield College

LINFIELD
Fall 2006
MAGAZINE
New sound of music
A View from Melrose
Table of Contents
Linfield 2020:
Departments
2 A View from Melrose
4 Linfield Digest
Navigation in a flattened world
“20-20” stands for perfect vision.The year 2020 is less
than 15 years away.
Two years ago, the Linfield faculty retreat focused on
“Linfield 2020” and professors addressed questions such as,
“what should be our priorities? What should the college
look like? What will our students need?” Among other
things, faculty agreed that, “We want to be known as a
great teaching college that supports and celebrates vital
research conducted by both faculty and students.” They
said that,“We want to be known as a place where the study
of the liberal arts and the pre-professional comprehensive
B.A. programs are well integrated.” And, “We want to be
recognized as a place that nurtures a vibrant community.”
I couldn’t agree more. And I believe that the future of
the college will be grounded in those three principles. It
is further essential that we continue to bring the world to
Linfield by increasing our geographic and ethnic diversity,
not only in the student body, but also in the faculty. We
need to increase the national awareness of Linfield as a
quality college and we need to continue to strengthen
international studies.
Students at Linfield already get a rich education, full of
experiential learning and collaboration. But we have the
potential to do even more – to coordinate faculty-student
research that will link theory to practice; to organize our
internship programs so that students can assist area businesses, non-profit organizations or schools while also learning
from them; to deepen our connections to our local area
which will, ironically, make us more attractive and interesting to those far away who are just beginning to learn about
Linfield.We can provide a global learning laboratory here at
Linfield, and we can also enable our faculty and students to
test what they have learned here during their study abroad.
So what will Linfield College look like in the year
2020? I can’t make any promises, but I have many ideas
that I hope to present for serious discussion. More importantly, we need to create the vision together. Here are
some ideas for 2020.
We will be well known regionally and recognized
nationally. Our student body and faculty will include people from many states and nations, from a wide variety of
ethnic, economic and social backgrounds. They will come
to Linfield for many reasons, but especially because of our
international programs, our academic excellence and our
emphasis on applying theory to practice. Student-faculty
research teams will be lauded for their contributions to the
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22 ‘Cat Tracks
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President Thomas L. Hellie shares a laugh with students at the
activities fair during orientation. The fair provides an opportunity for new students to learn more about clubs and organizations on campus.
non-profit sector, the education sector, the business sector
and the environmental sector, in the Pacific Northwest and
beyond. Our pre-professional programs will be notable for
their integration with the liberal arts.We will have new science facilities, Northup Hall will house several academic
departments and Pioneer Hall will have been renovated.
We will have remodeled our current facilities or secured
new ones in Portland. Our athletic teams and facilities will
continue to be a model for the NCAA, providing the best
possible opportunities for excellence in competition while
assuring the primary importance of academics. We will be
a place where our students – whether in nursing or business, theatre or chemistry – find themselves called to service, a place where they not only come to study a discipline,
they also come to discover themselves.
Let us aim high at Linfield. If we’re now the best comprehensive undergraduate college in the West, maybe we
should look even further as we set our sights, design our
programs, plot our future and create a bolder vision.
I look forward to refining these ideas with our alumni,
faculty and students. Let’s aim high and strive to become
better. For our students today, for Linfield 2020, we can do
no less.
– Thomas L. Hellie
In June when I traveled over Santiam Pass
to Sisters to cover the course History of
Fire in the Cascades, I never imagined
that just a few weeks later, another forest
fire would have such a personal impact
on Linfield College when Lincabin was
destroyed by fire. In this issue, we have
collected some stories about the cabin. But
even with loss, we have much to celebrate
at Linfield College. Our outstanding Music
Department finally has a new home. The
beautiful new Vivian A. Bull Music Center
opened at a celebration filled with joyful
music and much fanfare. The newly renovated Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium is
also being unveiled this fall. We pay tribute to two of our award-winning professors
and provide insight into our varied student
body. These are exciting times at Linfield
and we look forward to sharing more
stories with you.
– Mardi Mileham
24 Alumni News
26 Class Notes
31 Alumni Profile
Features
6 The new sound of music
The Music Department finally has a permanent home
with the opening of the new Vivian A. Bull Music Center.
12 Fire consumes Lincabin
A collection of poignant memories of the beloved cabin.
15 Outdoor enthusiast pens field guide
An environmental studies major turns a Linfield class
project into a field guide for the public.
16 Classroom on the mountain
Outdoor class studies the history and impact of
forest fires in the Cascade mountain range.
On the covers:
Front: Violin section of the Linfield
Chamber Orchestra. (Daniel Hurst photo)
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Faculty excellence
Two professors earn distinguished awards for their
teaching and research.
Back: A look at some of our fall athletes.
(Kelly Bird photos)
LINFIELD MAGAZINE
Editor
Mardi Mileham
[email protected]
503-883-2498
Assistant Editor
Laura Davis
Graphic Design
Candido Salinas III
Photography
Tom Ballard
Kelly Bird
Doug Cruikshank
Laura Davis
Daniel Hurst
Matt Johnson
Terry Luther
Mardi Mileham
Mike Roberts
Kelly Warren
Contributors
Kelly Bird
Laura Graham ’07
Thomas L. Hellie
Beth Rogers Thompson
Advisory Board
Ed Gans
Dick Hughes ’75
R. Gregory Nokes
Sherri (Dunmyer) Partridge ’86
Amy (Westersund) Rogers ’96
President
Thomas L. Hellie
Vice President
for College Relations
Bruce Wyatt
Director of Alumni Relations
Debbie (Hansen) Harmon ’90
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Alumna crafts logo celebrating sesquicentennial
A logo designed by a Linfield
College alumna will represent
the college when it
turns 150.
Amy (Westersund)
Rogers ’96, a Forest
Grove-based graphic
designer, created the
award-winning logo,
Amy (Westersund)
which will be feaRogers ’96
tured during Linfield’s
Sesquicentennial celebration in 2007-08.
Graphic artists were invited to submit
designs in June.
Rogers got her professional start as a student during
Linfield’s Career Mentor Day, when she visited with the
late Kristen Karlbom ’88, a Nike illustrator.
She later interned with Karlbom at Columbia
Sportswear as well.
After graduating from Linfield with a
studio art degree, Rogers worked for
Electro Art and CMD Agency, both
Portland design firms, before starting Amy
Rogers Graphic Design in 2001. She is a
member of the Linfield Magazine advisory
board and the Forest Grove Chamber of
Commerce.
“I wanted the design to feel rich and
scholarly with a sense of tradition,” Rogers
said. “I included an oak leaf because I associate Linfield with the beautiful grove of old oak trees.
They symbolize wisdom to me.”
Vivian A. Bull Music Center dedicated
Trumpets, strings, bands and vocalists
were just part of the celebration Sept.
29 during the dedication of the Vivian
A. Bull Music Center on the Keck
Campus. Counter clockwise at left,
President Thomas L. Hellie assists Bull in
cutting the ceremonial ribbon to dedicate the new facility. The concert band
performs in the new Woolley Rehearsal
Room during several performances that
afternoon. A string group performs during tours after the dedication. The longawaited home for the Music Department
completes the Arts Quadrangle on the
Keck Campus which includes the James
F. Miller Fine Arts Center; Ford Hall,
home to Marshall Theatre; and the Jereld
R. Nicholson Library.
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Linfield ranked
number one
by U.S. News
Dedicated faculty remembered
Sisters Nancy (Terrell) Yacher '57, left, and Mary Ellen (Terrell) von der Heyden '59 share a
memory of their father during the dedication of the Terrell and Elkinton residence halls Sept. 9.
The new halls were named in honor of two of Linfield's distinguished professors: Horace C.
Terrell, professor of English from 1933 to 1961, and Harold Elkinton, professor of economics
and business from 1927 to 1969. Several alumni and friends gave tributes to the beloved
faculty members, noting that they transformed the lives of many of the students they taught.
Linfield welcomes new class
Toting duffle bags and laptops, members of Linfield College’s newest class
arrived on the McMinnville and Portland campuses for fall semester.
At McMinnville, 455 students enrolled in the class of 2010, along with 60
transfer and 30 international exchange students. On the Portland Campus, 144
new students will major in nursing or health sciences throughout the year.
On the McMinnville Campus, 55 percent of the new class are women and
45 percent are men. Sixteen percent are students of color including international
students. Students represent 348 high schools and have an average GPA of 3.61.
Scores average 1125 for SAT and 24 for ACT. A full 28 percent are from the
top 10 percent of their high school class.
New class members have been involved in student government, music, theatre, art, communications and other high school activities.They have also found
time for community service projects including Amnesty International, Boy
Scouts, Habitat for Humanity, Red Cross and Relay for Life, to name a few.
They are leaders with six valedictorians, 14 student body presidents, 38
newspaper or yearbook editors, 91 team captains and 97 club officers.
On the Portland Campus, incoming students have an average GPA of 3.66 on
prior college work. Seventeen percent of the new students are male and 16 percent
are students of color. Forty-four percent of the transfer students have a prior
bachelor’s degree and some have completed degrees at the master’s and doctoral
level. Prior degrees 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.
For the sixth 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.
In the ranking by peer institutions, Linfield received a 3.9 overall
average out of a possible 5, the
highest score in that category.
“We are always pleased to be
recognized by our peers and
outside organizations for the
quality of our academic programs,”
President Thomas L. Hellie said.
“It’s also important to note that our
teacher education program recently
received an outstanding evaluation
from the State of Oregon for its
reaccreditation. And our nursing
graduates achieved a 97 percent
pass rate on their licensing examinations, dramatically higher than
the national average of 86 percent.”
In addition to U.S. News,
Linfield also received a “Best in the
West” rating from Princeton Review.
Student opinion data from a total
of 656 schools is featured on the
Best Colleges: Region by Region
section of PrincetonReview.com.
Linfield is one of 123 schools on
the site to receive the “Best in the
West” designation. Those schools
“uphold the standards of our Best
Western College Distinction and
provide students with a wide
breadth of excellent schools to consider,” according to the publication.
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The new sound of music
Vivian A. Bull was the18th president of
Linfield College and a patron of the arts.
She served as Linfield’s president for 13
years (1992-2005) during a period of
unprecedented change. Under her leadership, the college’s visibility and stature
grew along with the campus, which
more than doubled in size. Some 14
new buildings were added to campus,
including new facilities for art, theatre
and the library. She was and is a patron
of the arts and attended countless concerts, plays and exhibits during her
tenure at Linfield.
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Life will never be perfectly square in
the new Vivian A. Bull Music Center
and that’s exactly how it should be.
“Where music is made and music
is taught, life is not square,” said
Richard Bourassa with a smile as he
showed visitors through the new
music center.With few square corners
and many walls slightly angled or
curved, the new center is designed to
enhance the acoustics of the faculty
studios, rehearsal spaces and the recital
hall. Bourassa should know the intricacies of the design. He is a professor
of music, and as department chair
for 10 years, he was instrumental in
planning the new center.
The excitement was almost palpable among faculty and students alike
when the center opened this fall.
The new 14,000-square-foot building,
opposite the Miller Fine Arts Center,
houses faculty offices and studios, practice rooms, a music library, a seminar
room, a band rehearsal room and a
recital space with seating for 98. It
updates instructional and practice facilities for the entire music program and
provides much-needed centralized
space for faculty and students as well as
a new venue for smaller recitals.
It not only looks like a music
building, but it feels like a music
building, said Faun Tiedge, current
chair of the Linfield music program.
Faculty studios are all on one
level, and practice rooms and performance and rehearsal spaces are
available in the building, which was
not the case in Renshaw Hall, she
said. Students didn’t have much space
to gather in Renshaw, but that
changes with the new center.
“When students come into our
central lobby, they have more opportunity to exchange ideas with faculty
and other students,” Tiedge said.
“There’s a vitality that we didn’t
experience because we were more
fragmented.”
The new facility is rekindling an
excitement to connect with the liber-
al arts and to find the meaning of
music in a liberal arts institution, she
said.
Having rehearsal, teaching and
performance spaces in one building
will enhance the students’ education,
Tiedge noted, by encouraging more
interaction among students and more
collaboration between students and
faculty.
The new facility will also provide
more flexibility for the department.
Supplementing the newly renovated
Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium
(formerly Melrose Auditorium), the
new building’s Delkin Recital Hall
provides an intimate space for special
recitals, small concerts and lectures or
programs from visiting artists. The
Woolley Rehearsal Room provides
more space for both band and choir
rehearsals and may allow more
outreach by the music department
into the schools and local community.
“Delkin (recital hall) is a very
exciting space, where we can bridge
the gap between audience and
performer,” Tiedge added. “We might
have open rehearsals and invite
community members in where they
can see our students at work with our
directors.”
The opening of the Bull Center
completes the Arts Quadrangle on the
Keck Campus which should enhance
collaboration among the arts,Tiedge said.
“The proximity to the Arts Quad
and the library, coupled with the new
performance spaces, has raised the
level of plans for music making,”
she said, adding that both she and
Bourassa have a strong interest in
creating new music which is interdisciplinary in nature.
“So much of what we do is
improvisatory and impromptu,” she
said. “Now we can tap into an artist
right outside our building. Arts
faculty and students will be much
more accessible to us.
– Mardi Mileham
Faun Tiedge, chair of the Music Department, teaches in the Delkin Recital Hall,
which will be used for classes, rehearsals and small concerts and recitals.
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Hail, trombones and Liszt
In 1965, Colonial Hall ended its lifespan of almost 60 years when it was deliberately burned as practice for fire departments
statewide. Just three years later, fire destroyed Frerichs Hall, moving the music department to Renshaw Hall. Marv Henberg, professor
of philosophy, and Barbara Seidman, interim dean of faculty, are preparing an illustrated book for Linfield’s Sesquicentennial titled
Inspired Pragmatism: An Illustrated History of Linfield College, which will include historical sketches such as this.
As the music department moved
into its new digs in the Vivian A. Bull
Music Center, musicians carried with
them more than just instruments,
sheet music and tuning forks. They
also brought many memories of
Renshaw Hall.
Originally designed for visual
artists, Renshaw opened its doors to
musicians in 1969 after Frerichs Hall
burned to the ground.
Renshaw’s hub was the main
office, run by Donna Root, secretary
for both music and art. Most days, faculty and students crowded the 10x13
foot office to make copies, use the
phone or talk with Root.
The building’s most prominent
architectural element, the art gallery,
featured a two-story ceiling and four
skylights. When a second floor was
added above the gallery to accommodate rehearsals, rain or hail storms
could drown out the choir.
Musicians and artists alike learned
to accept Renshaw’s notoriously thin
walls, according to Jill Timmons, professor of music, whose office was located next to that of the late Marion van
Dyk for years. One day,Timmons practiced a particularly difficult work by
Franz Liszt.
“I must have made more repetitions than usual,” said Timmons,
“because through the wall I heard his
voice announce confidently, ‘You’ll get
it!’ It was a joke we shared for years and
one of my fondest Linfield memories.”
Practice proved challenging for
students as well. When a trombone or
saxophonist arrived to practice in the
trailer next door that had 1/8-inch
paneling and no insulation, everyone
else would flee from the noise.
Some Renshaw memories are
tangible. Plaster busts of Giuseppe
Verdi and Robert Schumann in hangman nooses, hung by music history
students in 1981, now grace a shelf in
Timmons’ new office.
– Laura Davis
50,50
and 50
The Department of Music
boasts approximately 50 students enrolled as majors and 50
minors.Yet each year hundreds
of non-majors – and some
community members – take
music classes, participate in a
variety of ensembles and present nearly 50 performances,
ranging from major concerts to
intimate recitals to the choir’s
annual spring break tour. For a
complete listing of Linfield
music
groups,
go
to
http://www.linfield.edu/music
/ensemble.php. Click
on
http://www.linfield.edu/music
/events.php for a schedule of
music events.
This dream dates back to 1872
When Linfield music faculty and
students occupied the splendid, purpose-built and sound-isolated spaces
of the Vivian A. Bull Music Center in
August, they realized a dream from as
early as 1872 when leaders of
McMinnville College first contemplated musical instruction.
Earlier college music facilities
sufficed, but only thanks to ingenuity
among music faculty members and
forbearance among their colleagues.
Music instruction, begun in 1883 on
the second floor of Pioneer Hall, was
moved in 1907 when Music Hall was
erected as a temporary building on
the site now occupied by Whitman
Hall. Linfield musicians subsequently shared the hall with, among others,
the departments of Latin, Greek,
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German, English, art and education.
In 1947 a surplus theatre from
the Portland Air Base was moved to
the site now occupied by Murdock
Hall. Music joined journalism and
radio communications, speech and
theatre in this new home.
First called the Fine Arts
Building, the facility was re-named
Frerichs Hall in 1957. With its
namesake faculty removed, Music
Hall was renamed Colonial Hall.
In early 1965, Colonial Hall
ended its temporary lifespan of
almost 60 years. It was deliberately
burned as practice for fire departments statewide. No one watching
this planned conflagration could
perceive, as we do today, an ominous foreshadowing of 1969. On
Dec. 16 of that year, Frerichs Hall was
reduced to ashes in an early morning
blaze sparked by an overheated chimney.
Once again, Linfield musicians
became itinerants seemingly destined
for temporary abodes. The program
moved briefly to Memorial Hall to
await renovation of Renshaw Hall.
Opened in 1967 and designed
expressly for art, Renshaw could be
modified to house musicians, but not
to favor them.
Accordingly, in the new facility
honoring President Emerita Vivian
A. Bull, adjectives such as “purposebuilt” and “sound-isolated” are music
to everyone’s ears.
– Marvin Henberg
Professor of Philosophy
Vivian A. Bull Music Center fast facts: 14,000 square feet, six faculty studio offices, a music library, 10 soundproof practice rooms, the
Woolley Rehearsal Room, the 98-seat Delkin Recital Hall, a seminar room, lobby area with fireplace and instrument storage space.
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New facility
‘is awesome’
Chris Engbretson ‘07 doesn’t want
to waste a moment of the time he has
left in the Vivian A. Bull Music Center.
Like many Linfield College music
students, Engbretson is reveling in the
opportunity — and responsibility —
presented by the state-of-the-art center. And, as a senior, his time is limited.
“I want to get everything out of
the facility that I can,” said Engbretson,
a piano performance major from
Kenmore, Wash. “It makes me want to
work harder and practice more. This is
the culmination of so many people
doing so many things for Linfield
music students. The spirit of generosity
is inspiring.”
His favorite area is Delkin Recital
Hall, and he was honored to be part of
the choir that sang the first notes in
the new space. With 24-hour access, he
sometimes slips in late at night to practice undistracted.
“There’s a warmth to this place
that is unlike any other,” said
Engbretson, who will pursue graduate
studies in choral conducting and piano.
“Somehow I feel like I’m accomplishing more.”
For some students it’s the small
details — the air conditioned practice
rooms, the personal music lockers, the
comfortable chairs that do not squeak.
Others appreciate the vast instrument
storage and spacious rehearsal areas.
Whatever their preference, music
students have a renewed sense of purpose and space to call their own.
“It’s a privilege,” said Engbretson.
“Something was made just for us. It’s
so awesome.”
– Laura Davis
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Richard Ice '52 stands in the newly renovated Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose
Hall. Formerly known as Melrose Auditorium, Ice funded the renovation because of his own
interest in music and as a tribute to his late wife, Lucille, who was a professional organist
and life-long patron of the arts.
Ice Auditorium debuts this fall
Music sounds sweeter to performer and audience alike with the
debut of the new Richard and Lucille
Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall.
Gone are the clanking radiators,
noisy doors and hard wooden seats
in the balcony of what has been
known as Melrose Auditorium for
over 70 years. The auditorium serves
as the location of choice for major
lectures, concerts, campus awards
ceremonies, community events and
other functions.
Funded with a gift from Richard
Ice ‘52, chair emeritus of the Board of
Trustees, the auditorium memorializes
his late wife, Lucille, who was a
professional organist and a member of
the American Guild of Organists.
The dedication of the new Ice
Auditorium will be held Friday, Nov.
3, at 8 p.m. in conjunction with the
Linfield Chamber Orchestra’s first
concert of the season.
The auditorium has excellent
acoustics, but was outdated in many
other respects, said President Thomas
L. Hellie.
“We are grateful to Dr. Ice for his
generosity in funding this renovation
which was done with respect for the
original space,” Hellie said. “The
auditorium has become an attractive
and enjoyable venue and reflects the
quality of the college as a whole as
well as the quality of the activities
taking place in it.”
A new sound-isolated heating
and air conditioning system has been
installed along with insulated windows,
upgraded lighting, and new balcony
theatre seats and refurbished orchestra
seats. The pipe organ was cleaned and
four new sets of sound-lock entrance
doors will help isolate light and
sound.
Although the Music Department
anticipates using their new facility for
many events, Ice Auditorium will still
be the venue for large concerts.
Ron Mills, professor of art, has
been commissioned to produce two
paintings that will be displayed outside the auditorium’s entrance.
– Mardi Mileham
Linfield seniors Ethan Barske of Anchorage, Alaska,
left, and Chris Engbretson of Kenmore, Wash.,
presented “Music for Two Pianos,” the inaugural
event at the newly renovated Richard and
Lucille Ice Auditorium.
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FIRE consumes Lincabin
Little remains of Lincabin after a forest fire destroyed the Linfield
landmark in July.
L
infield College lost a piece of history and
folklore when Lincabin was destroyed by a
forest fire in July.
The rustic dwelling was located on private land in the forest about 10 miles southwest of Sisters. Despite the best efforts of fire fighters to
save the structure, it was completely destroyed.
It is a major loss to some of the people who used
the cabin for many years.
Drannan Hamby ’55, professor emeritus of chemistry and physics, was one of several individuals
involved with Lincabin from the beginning. The idea
for a cabin evolved after an outdoor program was
established in the early 1970s. Construction began in
1973. All of the labor was done by Linfield faculty and
students, Hamby said. There were no indoor toilet
facilities, electricity or running water and originally a
Franklin fireplace provided heat.
“One could get either one’s front side or back side
warm, but not both at the same time,” Hamby said.
The Forest Service later donated a big double-barreled
wood burner that warmed the cabin. Eventually a
wood cook stove was added that baked many loaves of
bread over the years.
The cabin was home to the spring and summer outdoor program and fall orientation programs for many
years, and many faculty and departments used the facility, including the Departments of Physics, Modern
Languages and Physical Education.
Hamby taught a January Term winter outdoor
course and was joined in 1987 by Doug Cruikshank,
professor of education, now emeritus.
“The cabin provided an ideal base for the course,”
Hamby wrote. “It was primitive and isolated enough to
provide challenge, but warm and tight enough to provide a learning place that was comfortable and safe for
starting a winter outdoor adventure.”
Cruikshank is writing a book about the winter outdoor course, complete with journal entries from students. One chapter focuses on Lincabin, and one of his
fondest memories is teaching the students to bake bread,
which “resulted in baking frenzies.”
In 1981, Peter Richardson, professor of German,
established a tradition of taking students to “Linhütte”
for total immersion German weekends. Diane (Fox)
Close ’84 carved a wooden “Linhütte” panel that was
affixed over the door. The weekends were filled with
cooking on the wood stove, as well as singing, hiking
and playing games, speaking nothing but German.
Mike Roberts, professor of biology; Gudrun
Hommel-Ingram, associate professor of German; Scott
Smith, assistant professor of history; and Peter McGraw,
director of corporate and foundation relations, have all
participated in those weekends.
McGraw recalls Richardson demonstrating how to
make German noodles, preparing the dough and caramelized
onions and inviting the students each to take a turn.
“It wasn’t easy, and after everyone had had a turn
and the expert returned to finish the job, we sat down
to a huge and delicious meal of Spätzle layered with
cheese and onions,” McGraw said.
Lincabin represented something more than just a
hut in the woods, Roberts said.
“It was an institution in itself, a sort of campus
annex that made certain experiences better,” he added.
“Being away from campus seemed to make the students
willing to work harder at communicating. Many found
that their German got better as the weekend progressed
Top right: A view of Lincabin during the winter when Drannan Hamby ’55 and Doug Cruikshank taught the winter outdoor
course. Below: Making bread was a favorite student activity.
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Outdoor enthusiast
pens field guide
and they learned words that were specific to mountains,
forests and nature.”
And those weekends had a profound effect on some
students, Richardson said.
“A junior sidled into my office one year and said
she had gone to Linhütte as a freshman,” he said. “She
had not said much during that visit, being reticent about
using her first-year skills when there were better speakers present. She told me that weekend had been an
unforgettable milestone in her Linfield education and
thanked me for it.”
Close, the student who carved the Linhütte panel,
was not a particularly strong German student,
Richardson said. But after graduating, she moved to
Germany to make her way in the art world. She married there and years later returned to give a talk at
Linfield about her art, a talk delivered in halting English
with a heavy German accent.
Upkeep of the cabin was a labor of love for those
who used it. It had been re-stained, had its roof and gutters repaired and the stove chimney straightened. Some
years major repairs were required after the cabin was
vandalized. A few years ago, a new outhouse was needed, since the existing one was “listing to the side as well
as showing plenty of use,” Cruikshank wrote in his
book. That January, surrounded by snow, the old outhouse was burned to the ground.
“The two mental images I have today are of the old
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Top: Relaxing, reading and writing in journals occupied some
of the time students spent in the cabin during the winter outdoor
course. Below: Burning the old outhouse.
outhouse burning and a snow-laden tree standing out
against the blue-white sky,” Cruikshank added.
“Drannan and I agreed that it was the passing of an era.”
– Mardi Mileham
(Editor’s note: The Office of Alumni Relations has created
an online group so those who spent time at Lincabin can share
their memories. Share your own memories or read what
classmates have to say at http://groups.google.com/group/lincabin.)
Kelly Warren ’07 has been an
avid waterfowl hunter since first
slogging through the marsh with
his father and grandfather at age 2.
So when Warren, an environmental studies major at Linfield
College, set out to find a topic for his
independent research study, he turned to the subject he
knows best – geese. After deciding to identify and analyze the seven Canada goose subspecies found in the
Willamette Valley, Warren contacted state and national
environmental agencies for background material.
While sorting through Oregon’s complicated hunting regulations, Warren saw the need for a better hunter
education tool and took the initiative to develop the
“Identification Field Guide to the Geese of the
Willamette Valley and Lower Columbia River.” It was a
major undertaking but one that will aid the average
hunter, according to Brad Bales, a migratory game bird
biologist with the Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife for 26 years.
“Kelly took thousands of digital photos, which adds
to the overall field guide,” Bales said. “It took a tremendous amount of time.”
Warren took some 4,300 photos, which he narrowed down to 95 for the publication, and included
information on the geese such as history, behavior, management and maps charting breeding and wintering
areas. The final product is a 40-page field guide targeted
to hunters, biologists, birders and the general public.
The project ultimately earned Warren an A in his
Linfield class, along with a byline on a field guide now
distributed by the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Warren is also collaborating on a DVD to accompany
the publication.
“This is something that I’ve been passionate about
all my life,” Warren said. “To tie it into school work is an
extra plus.”
Warren’s interest in wildlife biology has broadened
while at Linfield, where the liberal arts environment
nurtures students to think within larger contexts,
according to Tom Love, professor of anthropology and
Warren’s project advisor.
“Kelly took his interest in geese and developed it
into a first-rate project which will be widely used,” Love
said. “In addition to the academic skills he’s developed at
Linfield, Kelly has a sixth sense, which a good hunter
has, about habitat, reading a landscape and knowing
waterfowl behavior. On top of all that, he has admirable
drive and perseverance.”
Warren plans to build on this project with a senior
thesis on the one subspecies that nests in the valley and
has become a local nuisance.
He later plans to attend graduate school in environmental policy, and ultimately obtain an environmental
law or teaching degree.
The project also sparked a new venture for Warren,
who has started a photography business as a result of
requests from the field guide.
– Laura Davis
Hard work and hundreds of hours in the field by Kelly Warren ‘07
are represented in a field guide now distributed by state and national
wildlife agencies. The guide and a DVD will be available this fall at
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/ODFWhtml/InfoCntrWild/goose_testing.htm.
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Classroom on the mountain
Gabriel Del Rayo ’08
grasps a push pin as he
crouches over a tree stump.
Squinting in the bright sun, he
carefully begins to count the
number of rings, a painstaking
process that will determine
the age of the tree and indicate
previous forest fires.
The odor of charred wood
Peter Schoonmaker
still hangs in the air three years
after the B&B Complex fire burned 92,000 acres in the
Deschutes and Willamette National Forests near the
resort town of Sisters. Tree trunks are covered with
blackened bark that rubs off at the touch of a hand and
walking can be treacherous over the loosened soil. The
wind can howl down the denuded hillsides, grinding
dirt and ash into unprotected skin and making work an
exhausting challenge. But it can also be exhilarating, as
11 Linfield College students will attest. In June, they
spent five days in the burn area in the Deschutes
National Forest learning about the history of fire in the
Cascade Mountains and helping launch a fledgling
research project. The course, Fire History of the
Cascades, is one of several summer travel courses offered
through Linfield’s Division of Continuing Education.
Instructor Peter Schoonmaker covers the science of
forest fires and how science and politics guide national
fire policy. The students get hands-on experience assessing the impact of fire. Depending on the outcome of the
study, they may also get to influence plans for restoration
as well as future state and federal fire policy regarding
forest management.
“They get a real feel for the controversy about forest
fire,” Schoonmaker said. “They develop an understanding
– from the ground up – that this is a more complicated
issue than just what they see in the news.”
With the burn area in its second growing season,
Linfield students received a varied look at forest ecology. Much of their work centered on marking circular
plots within a section of the burn area that had not been
logged. Once the plots were marked, they combed the
area – sometimes on hands and knees – counting the
saplings that have begun growing. That data was entered
into a computer program that compares growth rates
between salvaged and non-salvaged areas.
The project is similar to a controversial study produced by an Oregon State University graduate student
earlier this year, which concluded that forests will regenerate faster without salvage logging. Schoonmaker
wanted to see if that hypothesis held up in another area.
Once he has preliminary data, he’ll meet with foresters
at the Sisters Ranger District to determine if the study
is worth pursuing.
The intensity of the class surprised Tim Sackett ’07,
a business systems analyst for Freightliner.
“In a very short time we got hands-on experience
doing what people like Peter do for a living,” he said.
Not only did Sackett learn about the interactions and
interdependency between forest health and fire ecology,
Mike Marshall ‘06, left, and Tim Sackett ‘07 crawl on a steep hillside, counting
the saplings in their plot.
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Gabriel Del Rayo '08 counts the number of rings
on a tree stump to determine its age and whether
it had been damaged by fire previously.
Although the ground cover and saplings have begun growing in the B&B Complex burn
area, the dead trees are a stark reminder of the fire three years ago. Jennifer Larson‘07
marks one of the trees to set the boundary of the plot she and her classmates will survey.
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Student Profile
he also learned about the difficult and sometimes conflicting issues of lumber and development versus recreation and wildlife habitat.
“(Foresters) are assigned enormous spans of acreage
that include great diversity,” he said. “It takes years to
understand all of the different considerations of terrain,
climate and wildlife.”
The students came from both the Adult Degree
Program (ADP), where students pursue their bachelor’s
degrees while working full time, and from
McMinnville’s more traditional-age student population.
Mike Marshall ’06 of Chehalis, Wash., an environmental studies minor working on his degree through
ADP, is a logistics manager for a wood products firm.
His father was a forester for Boise Cascade, and Marshall
spent a great deal of time in the forest while growing up.
He was interested in getting a broader knowledge about
the product his company ultimately puts out.
“The majority of what we manufacture is made
from Douglas fir and Western larch,” he said. “Here I can
study the species and its climate and get a better understanding of why it is so dominant.”
Del Rayo, a business major on the McMinnville
campus, took the class to explore a different field.
“I learned the effects of wildfires in ecosystems and
how they play a big role in saving forests. Thinning
forests to reduce fuel buildup can make a big difference,” he said. “It was a fun class because I could see for
myself how things are really done.”
The best part of the class was the chemistry among
the students, said Chris Hukill ’09 from Monmouth,
who works full time at Hewlett-Packard.
“We really bonded,” Hukill said. “Everyone had an
attitude that fostered good learning and took it seriously. Everyone had respect for the learning and respect for
the knowledge people brought to the class. It was good
to have the diversity of ages.”
Schoonmaker is the founding board president of
Illahee, a non-profit organization that provides a forum
for environmental innovators to exchange ideas and
increase the scientific rigor of public discourse about the
environment in the Pacific Northwest. He has worked
with conservation organizations, government agencies
and natural resource businesses to craft mutually beneficial forest, fisheries and watershed partnerships throughout the region.
Schoonmaker likes teaching field-based classes, where
a question is posed and the students pursue an answer in
the field, instead of the class being defined by a text.
“In the course of asking a question, the students
usually have to tackle all those things they see in a text
and I think they learn it better,” he said. “They are learning the theory wholistically, in a hands-on way and I
think at the end of the class they see the whole picture.”
– Mardi Mileham
Linfield instructor Peter Schoonmaker explains a point to the students after recording the number of rings on a stump. He prefers teaching field-based classes which approach a subject wholistically and give students hands-on experience.
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Riding high in Pendleton
With an effervescent smile, the
graceful wave of a hand and lots of
hooting and hollering, Darlene
Thompson ’07 fulfilled a lifelong
dream this summer.
Thompson, an accounting and
math double major from Weston,
served as a princess for the Pendleton
Roundup, one of Oregon’s largest
and most renowned rodeos.
“Ever since I was a little girl I’ve
been going to the rodeo, sitting in the
stands and waiting for my turn to be
out there riding,” said Thompson.
Her turn came in September
when she successfully maneuvered the
Pendleton grand entry, one of the most
difficult entries in the Pacific
Northwest. Riding Red, a 16-year-old
sorrel gelding, Thompson entered the
arena at a full gallop, jumped two
fences, came to an abrupt halt in front
of 20,000 spectators, then raced around
the quarter-mile track twice – all onehanded while waving to the crowd.
“It’s dangerous,” Thompson
admits. “It’s a pressure cooker for
horses, too. A horse has a mind of its
own so anything can happen.”
The Pendleton Roundup, which
began in 1910, is practically a family
affair for Thompson, who has attended the rodeo every year since age 5.
Her grandfather has led the dress up
parade for 42 years and family members are devoted volunteers. So it was
only natural that Thompson, a skilled
horsewoman, would take her turn in
the spotlight.
The five-member court spent
the spring and summer appearing at
elementary schools, nursing homes,
luncheons, banquets, rodeos and
parades, leading up to the roundup.
But Thompson was unfazed by the
hectic schedule.
“It was lots of work, but the
roundup organizers want to have
girls representing them who are
involved in their communities and
Darlene Thompson ‘07 completes a grand entry jump atop Red, one of three horses
she rode as a princess for the Pendleton Roundup in September.
doing something with their lives,” she
said. “Those are the kinds of things
Linfield looks for, too.”
As if the responsibilities of the
rodeo weren’t enough, Thompson
interned with Chris Cockburn ’91
of Fife, Cockburn and Co., LLP, an
accounting firm in Pendleton.
Cockburn is a director for Happy
Canyon, affiliated with the roundup,
and understood the demands placed
on Thompson.
“The experience introduced me
to a different side of accounting,” said
Thompson, who audited school districts along with Ronna (Ayers)
Lindstrom ’98. “I’m thinking about
coming back to the area and this will
help me decide.”
Now back on campus for her
senior year, Thompson’s pace has
not slowed. She sings in the choir
and took part in the Opera
Workshop performance last year.
She played volleyball, served as a
peer advisor and is a member of
Fellowship of Christian Athletes,
Phi Sigma Sigma sorority and three
national honor societies for business, service and academics.
This is a typical Thompson
achievement, according to Mike
Jones, professor of accounting and
Thompson’s advisor.
“She’s probably accomplished
more in 21 years than many people
do in a lifetime,” Jones said. “She’s
involved in so many different things
and she’s usually at the top of the
heap. I’m proud to know her.”
Jones traveled to Pendleton to
watch Thompson “spin around the
track on her horse at what seemed
like 90 mph.” And he wasn’t the
only Thompson fan there. Other
Linfield community members also
made the trip.
“Faculty and staff cheer you on,”
said Thompson. “So many of them
were excited for me when they found
out I made court. A school like
Linfield is interested in their students
and wants to celebrate with them.”
– Laura Davis
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Faculty excellence
Orr, Bourassa earn Linfield distinctions
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Samuel I. Graf Faculty Achievement Award
Personal interests spur research for Orr
Edith Green Distinguished Teaching Award
Teaching and music compose a harmonious blend
Amy Orr is a problem solver with a knack for
multitasking.
A quantitative sociologist who routinely works with
statistics and surveys, Orr relishes a good project — or 10.
Since coming to Linfield in 2001, Orr, associate
professor of sociology, has put her skills to work as a
dynamic teacher, committed faculty member and
respected researcher. For her efforts, she earned the
Samuel I. Graf Faculty Achievement Award, given each
year to a faculty member who has made an outstanding
contribution that extends beyond his or her regular
duties to the life of the college.
Her secret? Lots of sleep, organization and a big black
book… a planner in which she chronicles to-do lists,
appointments, student schedules and family activities.
“My husband refers to it as ‘my life,’” she said with
a smile. “But I sleep well at night because I have everything written down on a daily basis.”
By her own admission, Orr has little downtime,
either at work or at home. But that’s fine by her.
“This is who I am,” said Orr, who earned a bachelor’s
degree at Nebraska Wesleyan and a master’s and Ph.D. at
the University of Notre Dame before coming to
Linfield. “I’m involved with things that really
intrigue and matter to me. I’m interested in the
educational environment and I see the
Richard Bourassa is a teacher who composes music,
rather than a composer who teaches music.
For Bourassa, that distinction is paramount. And it’s
obvious his students agree.
“It’s clear to me that Dr. Bourassa is more than a
professor who brings life to the Music Department; this
is an individual who has selflessly devoted his entire
being to serving others,” wrote Christine Bronson ’09,
one of 19 students and faculty who nominated him for
the Edith Green Distinguished Teaching Award.
Bourassa, who served as department chair for 10 of
his 14 years here, received the award last spring for his
contributions to the intellectual growth and academic
success of his students. He will describe the art of music
composition in a special lecture to members of the
President’s Club on Oct. 26.
Bourassa has been called an inspiring educator,
thoughtful mentor, gifted composer and strong leader. He
teaches music theory and composition, guiding budding
young musicians as they develop their own musical style.
He was instrumental in the planning of the new Vivian A.
Bull Music Center. He has composed over 100 pieces,
including setting to music two poems by poet and English
Professor Lex Runciman. He was commissioned to
compose two very different works, one that premiered in
honor of Vivian Bull’s service as president and a second
performed by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra in
Seattle last winter.The second piece will be performed by
the Linfield Chamber Orchestra Nov. 3 for the
dedication of the Richard and Lucille Ice
Auditorium, formerly Melrose Auditorium.
Bourassa isn’t quite sure if he picked music
or music chose him. At the age of 8 and with
some monetary support from his parents, he
purchased his first piano. By the age of 9, his
first composition premiered when the
Whitefish (Mont.) High School choir
performed his song, “Going Fishing.”
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things I do as important and needing to be done.”
Orr’s research and personal interests are often one
and the same. For example, her interest in gender and
education provides a backdrop for conversations with
Linfield colleagues discussing a gender gap developing
in education as more women than men graduate from
college. Orr calls the trend “complex and intriguing”
and teaches about it in her classes, but she has a personal stake as well, as the parent of an elementary-aged son.
On campus, Orr has immersed herself in college
life. She chairs the Faculty Executive Council, co-chairs
the Student Success Team and co-chairs a subcommittee
on the accreditation steering committee. In addition, she
is a faculty advisor for two international honor societies.
Last year, she also served as a mentor in the New Faculty
Mentor Program and as vice-chair of the January Term
Ad Hoc Committee.
Her involvement extends beyond Linfield and into
the community, where she is a regular volunteer in her
son’s school and has spoken at Henderson House, a local
women’s shelter. She is an active member of the Council
of Undergraduate Research and chairs the Membership
Committee of the Pacific Sociological Association. She
has published extensively, most recently an article on
wealth and the black-white test score gap and other
issues dealing with education.
Orr’s favorite role is that of teacher and mentor. As
the department thesis coordinator, she works closely
with students as they progress through individual
research projects. Strong student evaluations are a testament to her passion and excitement, according to
Barbara Seidman, interim dean of faculty.
“Amy knows her field intimately,” Seidman said.
“She inspires others with her passion for its nuances,
challenges them to engage its complexities, and does so
all with an approachability that fosters confidence –
what more could one ask of a teacher?”
– Laura Davis
Amy Orr, associate professor of sociology, talks
with, from left, Marie Rode '08 and Erika
Rosenfield '10.
Professor Richard Bourassa works with Casey
Frantum ‘07 in his new studio office in the
Vivian A. Bull Music Center.
Although he played the trumpet in junior high and
high school and the euphonium in college, the piano
remains his favorite instrument.
“When I sit down to play piano, the things I don’t know
how to explain verbally I can express musically,” he said.
His teaching follows him everywhere. It’s a chance
encounter with a freshman he has yet to have in class. It’s
sitting side-by-side with a student at the piano or at the
computer in the music studio, offering suggestions on a new
composition or working through a piece, line by line or
movement by movement. It’s attending dozens of concerts,
recitals and rehearsals throughout the year – because in one
way or another, each of those students is special to him.
A kind and thoughtful man who is quick to smile,
Bourassa’s compassion for his students is evident when
he talks about what motivates him as a teacher.
“The intense value I feel is from the students
entrusting themselves to me,” he said. “I want to do all I
can to return that trust positively. I think what I get and
what I give is an opportunity to get to know students in
an in-depth way and to let them know me in an indepth way. I hope that what I give them will help them
to make their world a better place, just like I hope I’m
making the world a little bit better because I am here.”
– Mardi Mileham
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‘Cat Tracks
Golf programs
ranked high too
U.S. News and Princeton Review
aren’t the only national publications
giving Linfield high marks.
Golf Digest has ranked the
Linfield men’s and women’s golf
programs among the top 10 college choices for high school
prospects who are “excellent students first, golfers second.” Linfield
placed among esteemed institutions like Yale, Princeton and
Harvard. The national publication
compared average playing scores,
improvement, academics, climate,
coaches and facilities.
According to Golf Digest, the
50 ranked colleges “provide the
best education and an opportunity
to play” for serious students. The
rankings are part of the magazine’s
second annual College Golf
Guide.
Professional
football follow-up
Two highly decorated Linfield
College football players, Brett
Elliott ‘05 and Casey Allen ‘06, have
had recent professional stints.
Elliott, former Wildcats quar-
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Soccer standout Allison Cartmill ‘07
Hometown: Tigard
Major: English and secondary education
Allison Cartmill ’07
Athletic Achievements:
Three-year letter winner,
most valuable player the
last two seasons, started 20
games as a junior, 1.48
goals-against average, with
three shutouts.
On choosing Linfield, “I visited the campus and
felt really comfortable. I was also given the chance to
play both soccer and basketball. I chose to pursue
soccer.”
Studying English and secondary education, “I
have always had a passion for literature. I knew long
before coming to Linfield I wanted to study English.
I chose secondary education because I enjoy working with that age group.”
Favorite professor: “Barbara Seidman. She pushed
me to think critically and express my opinion clearly
and coherently. She challenged me, but was always
available outside of class to help.”
Other campus activities, “Fellowship of Christian
Athletes and IM sports in the off season.”
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The Linfield football tradition continues
with Joe Smith ‘93, who was named the
Wildcats’ 15th head coach in June, shown
here with Jackson Vaughn ‘97, defensive
coordinator. Smith was an All-America defensive back under Ad Rutschman ‘54 and was
a member of the 1992 team that played
in the NAIA national championship game.
He served as defensive coordinator and
defensive backs coach under Ed Langsdorf
and Jay Locey. In addition to his coaching
responsibilities, Smith teaches in the
Health, Human Performance and Athletics
Department.
terback, was recently released from
the San Diego Chargers’ practice
squad. Allen, who signed with the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the
Canadian Football League, played in
several preseason games before
being released from the team.
The two All-Americans comprised the most prolific passing duo
in NCAA Division III, leading
Linfield to the 2004 national championship.
Studying abroad,
“I will be going this
January Term, taking
the class, Marie
Bashkirtseff:
Nice, Rome and
Paris, taught by
Katherine Kernberger,
professor of English.”
Balancing a busy
schedule, “I keep track of
everything in a planner and
go to bed early despite my
roommates’ jeers. I enjoy
what I do so trying to fit in
everything isn’t much of a
challenge.”
Being a Linfield athlete,
“Besides spending time with my
teammates, I enjoy competition at
the college level while still being
able to receive a quality education.”
Plans after graduation,
“My dream job would
include coaching and teaching at the high school
level preferably in the
Portland metro area.”
on the
the
on
web
Carnahan
Hall of Fame to tap inductees announces
coaching
retirement
The Linfield Athletics Hall of
Fame will induct eight athletes, one
coach, a volunteer and a national
championship team at the annual
banquet Saturday, Oct. 28, in the
Ted Wilson Gymnasium.
Athletes include:
• Basketball standout Don Hakala
Jr., ’91, who scored more points in
one season than any other player
and who ranks second in program
history in career points;
• Track & field record holder Missy
Hayward ’96, a Northwest Conference
champion and NAIA All-American
in the 3,000 and 5,000;
• Steve Lopes ’84, an All-America
offensive tackle and member of the
1982 NAIA national championship
football team;
• National champion swimmer Staci
Malin ’96, who set NAIA records
while leading the Linfield women to
their only Northwest Conference
championship in 1992;
• Randy Marshall ’73, a two-time
NAIA All-America defensive end
and member of three Northwest
Conference championship football
teams;
• Volleyball All-American Carolyn
Pearce ’82, a four-time conference
all-star who led the 1981 Wildcats
to an Association of Women’s
Intercollegiate Athletics national
runner-up finish;
• Baseball star Tony St. John ’88, a
four-time all-conference pitcher
who holds career records for complete games and shutouts; and
• Bob Sullivan ’71, a three-time allNWC defensive tackle whose
teams went 28-7-1 during his fouryear career.
The 1986 football team, which
rolled to a 12-0 record and captured
the NAIA Division II national championship, becomes the sixth team to
be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Ed Langsdorf, whose service
includes 20 years as head and assistant football coach and assistant
track and field coach, will be the
ninth coach inducted. Langsdorf
compiled a 32-9-1 record as head
football coach from 1992-95, and
served as an assistant in football for
16 years and track & field for 12.
Dennis Anderson ’58 is being
honored for meritorius service. He
has provided countless hours of volunteer service as an administrative
assistant and in the area of sports
information.
The Linfield Athletics Hall of
Fame was established in 1998 as a
means to honor outstanding former
athletes, coaches, staff and contributors, and to preserve the memory of
their past achievements. To date, a
total of 68 individuals and five
teams have been inducted.
Scott Carnahan ‘73 has
announced that the 2007 season will
be his last as Linfield College head
baseball coach.
Carnahan, who will remain as
Linfield’s director of athletics, plans
to step down in May from the
coaching position he has held since
1984. He cited the growing workload of athletic administration as the
principal reason for his resignation.
Carnahan is in his 11th year as
director of athletics at Linfield.
Under his leadership, Linfield has
been awarded the McIlroy-Lewis
All-Sports Trophy three of the past
five years, honoring the top overall
athletics program in the Northwest
Conference.
During his 23-year tenure as
Wildcats baseball coach, Carnahan’s
teams have won 11 NWC championships and finished as runner-up on
six other occasions. He has been
named NWC Coach of the Year 11
times and NAIA District 2 Coach of
the Year three times. Carnahan’s
record at Linfield is 540-361-2,
including a remarkable 342-120
(.746) record in Nor thwest
Conference play.
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Homecoming highlights
This year’s homecoming celebration included
something for everyone.
Clockwise from top, the dedication of the
Vivian A. Bull Music Center featured, from left, former interim President Win Dolan, former interim
President Marvin Henberg, President Thomas L.
Hellie, President Emeritus Charles U. Walker and
President Emerita Vivian A. Bull; alumni peruse the
silent auction table at “A Sampling of Linfield’s
Finest,” which featured the presentation of alumni
awards and reception with Linfield current and former faculty; Ad Rutschman ‘54, left, catches up
with Robert Harmon and former coach Ed
Langsdorf; the Wildcat cheerleaders entertain at
the barbecue; alumni, faculty, students and family
take part in the Fun Run Saturday morning; Chris
Tjersland ‘86, president of the Alumni Leadership
Council, introduces the four alumni award winners
at Friday evening’s event.
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Pencil Us In
PLU pre-game
barbecue
Oct. 21, noon
Visit with other
Wildcat fans in the parking area
across from Sparks Stadium during
a pre-game barbecue coordinated
by Brian Simpson ‘96.
Athletic Hall of Fame
banquet
Oct. 28, after the football game
Ten individuals and a national
championship football team will
be inducted into the Linfield Hall
of Fame.
Demystifying admission
and financial aid
Dec. 5, 7 p.m.
Preparing to send a child to college? Attend “Demystifying the
College Admission and Financial
Aid Process and Understanding
College Savings Options” presented by Dan Preston ‘83, dean
of enrollment services, and Lisa
Knodle-Bragiel ‘86, director of
admission, in Peterson Hall on the
Linfield Portland Campus.
Holiday party
Dec. 13, 5:30 p.m.
Join Linfield family and
friends for holiday cheer at one of
Portland’s hottest restaurants,
Fernando’s Hideaway, 824 SW 1st.
On the road with
President Hellie
Oct. 23 Boise, Idaho
Oct. 24 Twin Falls, Idaho
Nov. 13 Sacramento, Calif.
Nov. 14 Oakland,
San Francisco, Calif.
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Summer sendoffs
A number of alumni hosted
final farewells for local high school
students headed to Linfield. The
events provided a chance for
alumni to share college insights
while getting to know the next
generation of Linfield Wildcats.
Alumni hosts included Bill
McDonald ‘52 and Wendy
(McDonald) Oliphant ‘82, Bend;
Gary Magnuson ‘73, Seattle,Wash.;
Tom Sutro ‘71, Los Angeles, Calif.;
Pam (Scott) Claassen ‘75, San
Francisco, Calif.; and Larry Baker
‘64, Anchorage, Alaska.
Learn how you can get involved
at http://www.linfield.edu/alumni/volunteer.php.
Recruit a Wildcat
Marv Heater ’51
My wife, Jeanne (Effenberger) ’52, and I gave Franky’s name
to the Office of Admission. We felt that Linfield would be a good
fit for him and we wanted him to know about the college. The
emphasis on a small school atmosphere combined with a top
quality education is a great selling point.
Francisco “Franky” Martin ’10
My grandparents met at Linfield. It was important that someone
I knew and trusted recommended the college.
Application deadlines: Nov. 15 for early action, Feb. 15 for regular
decision.
Waive the application fee for a prospective student by visiting
or calling the Office of Admission at 800-640-2287.
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1960-69
1970-79
Cliff and Loisel (Haas) Bride
’33 and ’37 live in McMinnville.
Cliff lived in Sheridan for 71 years
and was Grand Marshal for the
Sheridan Days parade in June.
Roberta (Amundson) Morin
’60 of Hereford speaks at Christian
women’s clubs and retreats.
Michael Garcia ’64 of Salem is
a funeral director with Macy & Son
Funeral Directors.
Gary Olson ’64 of Sutherlin
retired after 38 years as a teacher and
coach at Sutherlin High School.
Walter Edmonds ’65 of Salem
is a judge on the Oregon Court of
Appeals.
Bob Ferguson ’65 of
Vancouver, Wash., is writing a book
about ordinary people doing
extraordinary things.
Richard Elliott ’65 of
Newberg retired after 38 years as
band teacher at Newberg High
School.
Bert Waugh Jr. ’66 of Tigard is
president of Prudential Northwest
Properties.
Gene Forman ’67 and ’68 of
Riddle is head football coach at
Days Creek High School.
Rev. Jim Simon ’67 of Aurora
donated a kidney to Lee Paulson
’67 of Aurora in July. Jim is the senior
pastor at Aurora Hills Baptist Church,
where Lee served as moderator.
Bob Laycoe ’68 of Hope,
British Columbia, Canada, retired as
head football coach at the
University of Toronto. He coached
33 seasons as both a head and assistant coach.
Jeb Bladine ’69 of
McMinnville is editor and publisher
of the McMinnville News-Register.
Donald Dix ’69 of
McMinnville is owner and president
of Dix Builders Inc.
Dan Koenig ’70 of Creswell
was appointed to a four-year term
to the Oregon State Medical
Examiners Review Board. He is a
criminal trial attorney who emphasizes death penalty litigation.
Steven Hertel ’72 of Fresno,
Calif., is president of Gary
McDonald Homes.
Gary and Anne (Ruark)
Smith ’72 and ’74 live in
Meridian, Idaho. Gary has been
appointed director of government
affairs and works at the headquarters
of the Department of Interior in
Washington, D.C.
John and Chris (Meyers)
Murphy, both ’72, live in Portland.
Chris retired from teaching at
Gresham High School after 30 years
in education.
Arthur “Sam” and Pamela
(Schaefer) Kimball ’73 and ’76
live in Atlantic Beach, Fla. Sam is
professor of English at the
University of North Florida in
Jacksonville.
Randy Marshall ’73 of Tygh
Valley is a rancher and will be
inducted into Linfield’s Athletic Hall
of Fame as a former defensive end.
Mike Cahill ’74 of Sisters has
retired after 30 years as a social studies teacher in the McMinnville
School District. He also coached
baseball.
Barbara (Nash) Bevens ’75 of
Friday Harbor, Wash., is lead teacher
for Griffin Bay School, the home
schooling arm of the San Juan
Island School District in Friday
Harbor.
Gary and Susan (Hightower)
Stautz, both ’75, live in Gresham.
Gary recently retired from teaching
at Gresham High School.
Howard Werth ’76 of Portland
is on the board of the Portland
Parks Foundation. He is a senior
vice president of finance with
Gunderson LLC.
Scott and Jane (Lemiuex)
Carpenter ’76 and GSH ’75 live
in Gresham. Scott retired from
teaching at Gresham High School
after 30 years in education.
Bill and Karen (Martin)
Kemp ’76 and ’96 live in Sisters.
Bill is the development director for
a free medical clinic serving uninsured working families in Deschutes
County.
Phillip Bond ’78 of Fairfax
Station, Va., is president and chief
executive officer of the Information
Technology Association of America.
Curtis Shepard ’78 of Beverly
Hills, Calif., has been appointed by
1950-59
Charles Chicks ’53 of
Sunnyvale, Calif., and his wife,
Barbara, celebrated their 50th
anniversary by taking a cruise with
their children including sons
Steven ’83 and David ’91; and
daughters Kathryn (Chicks)
Montano ’81 and Vicki (Chicks)
Boatsman ’92.
Ray Olson ’54 of Vancouver,
Wash., took his 11th trip to China
during the summer, conducting
research on the Silk Route.
Nels and Patsy (Ogburn)
Ingram, both ’56, of Mesa, Ariz.,
have traveled extensively and
recently took a trip to Kenya,
Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Victoria
Falls.
Achilla (Imlong) Erdican ’57
and ’58 of Avondale Estates, Ga.,
published Resource Handbook for
Colorectal Cancer Survivors on the
Internet.
Rev. Thomas and Virginia
(Nelson) Blackburn ’57 and ’58
of Garden City, Idaho, coauthored
Formula for a Miracle, published by
Xlibris.
Arnold and Betty (Miller)
Mills ’58 and ’70 of McMinnville
celebrated their 62nd wedding
anniversary Sept. 1.
March 2, 2007
Please mark your calendar and plan to join the
Linfield College community as we celebrate the inauguration of Dr. Thomas L. Hellie as the 19th president on
Friday, March 2, 2007.
A schedule of activities also will be available online
at www.linfield.edu/inauguration.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
to the California Council for the
Humanities. Curtis is director of
government relations for the Los
Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
1980-89
Dwayne and Vicky (Corliss)
Brown ’80 and ’81 of Winchester
are co-pastors at the First
Presbyterian Church of Roseburg.
Dwayne received a doctor of ministry
degree from Austin Presbyterian
Theological Seminary in May.
Richelle (Gaskell) Palmer ’82
and ’92 of Walla Walla, Wash., is an
instructional coach with the Walla
Walla School District. She recently
earned a scholarship from the
American Association of University
Women.
Dean Maners ’84 of Redondo
Beach, Calif., is senior vice president
of business development for Young
Homes.
Steve Lopes ’84 of Palos Verdes,
Calif., a former All-American offensive tackle and member of the 1982
NAIA national championship football
team, will be inducted into the
Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame.
Sandy (Taylor) Madsen ’85
of Hillsboro is parish nurse coordinator at Tuality Healthcare.
Kip Carlson ’85 of Corvallis is
assistant sports information director
at Oregon State University and
served as primary media contact for
the Beavers’ baseball team when
they won the NCAA championship.
Joseph Parvankin ’85 of
Gresham is pursuing a master’s in
teaching at Concordia University.
Stephanie Baker ’85 of
McMinnville is an advertising representative at the McMinnville NewsRegister.
Marcy Hamby Towns ’85 of
Pendleton, Ind., is associate professor of chemistry at Purdue
University.
Bill Boos ’87 of Bend is battalion chief for the city of Bend and
owns Ridgeline Custom Homes, a
construction business in Bend.
Paul Weymiller ’87 of Buckley,
Wash., is head football coach at
Glacier Middle School in the White
River School District. He and his
wife had a daughter, Mary Grace,
Dec. 7, their third.
Linda White ’87 of Coos Bay
is the Oregon State University horticulture extension agent for Coos
and Curry counties.
Wendy (Levig) Autencio ’88
of McMinnville recently completed the Newport Marathon, finishing 12th among females 35 to 39.
Downs finds fulfillment on island of Sumba
Kathryn Kiekel Downs ’82 and her husband, Sean,
felt blessed with career success, two children and a
beautiful home in Laguna Hills, Calif.
But they began to question the significance of their
lives. A search for meaning and the perfect wave led Sean,
a surfer, to the island of Sumba. And there, the couple
found a new purpose: helping some of Indonesia’s poorest people. They now run the nonprofit Sumba
Foundation, dedicated to improving the islanders’ health
and education while respecting their traditions.
It has been an interesting journey, says Downs, who
majored in business at Linfield and previously worked
as an evening gown buyer for Nordstrom. Her ties to
the college run deep: an uncle, Bob Kiekel, taught
Spanish at Linfield in the 1960s. Her father, Jack
Kiekel, was associate pastor at First Baptist Church
from 1959 to 1968. He received a master’s in education
from Linfield and served on its Board of Trustees for
five years in the 1970s.
The foundation, established in 2002, now has a budget of more than $600,000, Downs said. Because contaminated water is the culprit in spreading malaria, the foundation’s first project was to buy a well-drilling rig and
train local people to use it. Since then, a second drilling
rig has been delivered and 38 wells have been drilled.
The foundation also has built seven schools and seven
medical clinics. It airlifts annual donations of medicine
from Direct Relief, a charity based in Santa Barbara, Calif.
“Our malaria program is blessed with one of the
top malaria specialists in the world,” Downs said. The
foundation distributes netting and promotes the cleanup of standing water to prevent the disease, which is
Lydia (Wakefield) Hubbard
’88 of Portland is an author, speaker
and community activist. Her autobiography, Feet Running and Bare, is in
its third edition.
Cathy Burleson (Van Pelt)
Roscoe ’88 of Athena was named
2006 Athena Citizen of the Year
recognizing volunteer work and
community service.
Erine Brice ’88 of Ontario,
Calif., married Gilroy Ames July 14
in Upland.
Keith Ussery ’89 of Lakeview
was named Educator of the Year
for his efforts as principal of Dallas
High School.
1990-99
Corey Medeiros ’91 of
McMinnville is one of 15 people
honored as Ford Coach of the Year
by the Northwest Ford Stores and
Portland Trail Blazers. He received
$500 to benefit the McMinnville
Track Club.
David Ehlen and Hayley
Hendrickson ’91 and ’94 of
Portland had a daughter, Anneliese
Mae, April 8.
Elizabeth Fournier ’91 of
Portland is funeral director at
Cornerstone Funeral Services and
Cremation in Boring. She is also a
ballroom dancing instructor and has
written a book, Seventy-seven Blind
Dates, which she hopes to get published.
Bob McBeth ’92 of Dallas is
head boys’ basketball coach at Dallas
High School.
Todd Shirley ’92 of Powers
was one of the coaches at the Days
Creek Football Camp in June. He is
head football coach at Powers High
School.
Kathryn Kiekel Downs ‘82 (standing), along with her family,
runs the Sumba Foundation, dedicated to improving the
heath and education of the Sumbanese people.
spread by mosquitoes.
As a result, Downs said, “We’ve found that the rate
of malaria in the villages we’ve been covering is down
about 75 percent in one year.”
Downs divides her time between helping Sean, a
software executive, run the foundation and teaching
Bible study at her church. The family, including 16year-old daughter Avery and 12-year-old son Brian,
spends three weeks every summer in Sumba.
The foundation’s long-term goal is to find a sustainable way for the Sumbanese to work their way out
of poverty. A coffee crop has been grown, and a designer has been working on a line of jewelry for local
women to make.
– Beth Rogers Thompson
Theresa Meyers ’93 of Port
Orchard, Wash., will have her first
book, The Spellbound Bride, published in the spring. She was one of
11 authors in the country to make
it to the finals of the American Title
II competition, where authors have
an American Idol-style competition
for a book contract. In addition to
writing fiction, she has her own
public relations agency, Blue Moon
Communications.
Erika (Lundstedt) Stokke ’93
lives in Portland, Conn., with her
husband and three children.
Sharon Boyle ’93 of Terre
Haute, Ind., is coordinator of undergraduate music therapy at St. Maryof-the-Woods College. She and her
husband have one child.
Melissa Gonzales-McNeal
’94 of Gresham received a
Distinguished Teaching Award from
Mt. Hood Commmunity College.
She is an anatomy and physiology
instructor.
Shelly (Roise) Leritz ’94 of
Longview, Wash., and her husband,
Scott, had a son, Mason, May 15.
Betsy (Kling) Sopoci ’94 of
Magnolia, Texas, and her husband,
Traver, had a daughter, Gianna
Claire, Aug. 28.
Christi Kramer ’94 of Naples,
Idaho, is the drama teacher at
Boundary County School District.
Scott Roy ’95 of Spokane,
Wash., and his wife, Tristan, had a
son, Reece Olson-Roy, July 12.
Roy is the tobacco prevention and
control coordinator for the Spokane
Regional Health District and a
USAT Level II Triathlon Coach.
Chris Lapham ’95 of
Highland Ranch, Colo., is the
director of the Denver Executive
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Building a
Linfield Legacy
The Alumni Scholarship
Fund helped Marisa
Iverson ‘06, daughter of
Mary Iverson ‘77, pursue
her degree in psychology,
and study abroad in
Norway. She plans to
study organizational
psychology as a graduate
student.
The Linfield College Alumni Scholarship
Fund is the only fund specifically targeted to
support legacy students - the children, grandchildren or siblings of Linfield alumni. Your annual gift
to the fund helps welcome students to the “Linfield
experience” that opened a world of opportunity
for you.
To learn more about the Linfield College
Alumni Scholarship Fund and to download an
application, visit www.linfield.edu/alumni/scholarship.
To designate your annual gift to the fund, visit
www.linfield.edu/giving. Or call 503-883-2244.
MBA Program through Colorado
State University’s College of
Business. He completed his MBA
through the program last spring.
Brandie Holly ’95 of Boise,
Idaho, is an account manager for
Rizen Creative Co. She previously
served as a project manager for
The Network Group and Stoltz
Marketing Group.
Joe Dominey ’95 of Laredo,
Texas, was named Central Hockey
League Broadcaster of the Year
for his play-by-play work for
the Laredo Bucks. He was also
nominated for the Public
Relations Executive of the Year
for his work as the director of
media relations.
John and Mari (Moore)
Colbourne ’94 and ’95 of
Concord, Calif., had a daughter,
Kelly (Bee) Beatrice, March 7,
their second. John is a senior vice
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and Mari was most recently a public
relations account director with
Waggener Edstrom.
Kerry (Van Wyngarden)
Hinrichs ’96 of Lake Oswego
and her husband, Bjorn, had a son,
Dashel Svend, April 11.
Ken and Angela (Baird)
Smith ’94 and ’95 of Beaverton
had a son, Chase Ryland, March 9.
Mindy (Legard) Larson ’95
of McMinnville is an assistant
professor of education at Linfield.
Colby (Cummings) Knifong
’96 of Enterprise and her husband,
Ken, had a son, Kellan Kiger Lou,
April 5, their second.
Stacy Michael ’96 of
Colorado Springs, Colo., married
Eric Miller July 2. She is the athlete
services manager at USA Swimming.
Beth Madsen ’96 of Portland
married Tyler Bradford Aug. 27.
M A G A Z I N E
She is a classical singer and voice
teacher.
Shannon (Parton) Milton ’96
of Pasadena, Md., and her husband,
Aaron, had twins, McKenzie Taylor
and Madison Rylee, Aug. 2.
Jill (Plews) Van Batavia ’96
of Pasco, Wash., and her husband,
Doug, had a son, Rex Douglas,
in June.
Cynthia Bettes ’96 of Tacoma,
Wash., teaches middle school choir
and drama in Lakewood and was
recently featured in the Lakewood
Playhouse’s production of Fiddler
on the Roof.
Greg Peterson ’96 of Astoria
is a commercial banking officer at
the Bank of Astoria.
Darrin and Sigi (Knoll)
Causey ’95 and ’96 of Newberg
had a son, Joseph Donald, Feb. 2,
their second.
Ryan James ’97 of Seattle,
Wash., is vice president at Edelman
Public Relations.
Darcie LaMotte ’97 of
Beaverton married Casey Waage
May 27. She is director of catering
at the Westin Portland.
Michael Steen ’97 of
Portland is a credit analyst at
ShoreBank Pacific.
Keith and Kelly (Hopkins)
Eckert ’97 and ’00 had a son,
Koen William, April 21. They
both work for Campus Crusade
for Christ.
Mitch and Emily (Baker)
Chadwick, both ’98, live in
McMinnville. She is the children’s
ministry coordinator for the First
Baptist Church and he is a teacher
in Sheridan.
Julie Hammond ’98 of
Redmond is vice chair of the
United Way of Deschutes County
volunteer campaign. She is a
certified insurance councilor for
Sage Insurance.
Ryan and Tricia (Phillips)
Yin, both ’98, of San Jose, Calif.,
had a daughter, Grace
Lilinoeokalehua Lowery, Feb. 14.
David and Jessica (Brewer)
Gaibler ’98 and ’99 of Beaverton
had a daughter, Alyssa Grace,
June 29.
Bryce Court ’99 of St. Paul
is head basketball coach at St. Paul
High School.
Jaime Phelps ’99 of Medford
completed her Doctor of Dental
Medicine at Oregon Health and
Sciences University and is a dentist
in Medford.
Sara Kelly ’99 of Hillsboro
teaches sixth grade math at Stoller
Middle School in Beaverton.
Hilary (Chrisman) McCaw
’99 of Gerber, Calif., and her
husband, John, had a daughter, Lily
Grace, June 14. Hilary is a registered
nurse at Mercy Medical Center
in Redding.
Lora Koenig and Joel
Siderius, both ’99, live in Seattle,
Wash. Lora completed six weeks of
research on the Greenland icecap in
conjunction with NASA and the
Ph.D. program at the University of
Washington. Her research will take
her to the Antarctic continent this
winter.
2000-06
Christopher Lupoli ’00 of
Durham, N.C., married Glorina
Rojas May 27. He has a master’s in
environmental management from
Duke University and works for the
environmental education department at Duke University Gardens.
Seth Otto ’00 of Portland is a
planner at WRG Design.
Melissa Wolf ’00 of Camas,
Wash., has helped launch The
Vancouver Voice, a monthly paper.
Monica Johnson-Tomanka
’00 of Tigard is one of only 25
individuals nationwide elected to
the board of directors of the United
Network for Organ Sharing. She is
director of operations at Pacific
Northwest Transplant Bank.
Rich Riffle ’00 of Corvallis is
running a write-in campaign for
Benton County Sheriff.
Holly (Abelein) Harris ’01
of Bend and her husband, Brian, had
a daughter, Amelia Grace, May 19.
Dorisa “Star” Costello ’01 of
Chicago, Ill., completed her master’s
degree in English and creative writing
at California State University in Los
Angeles and is working on a Ph.D. in
creative writing at the University of
Illinois.
Annikke Olson ’01 is head of
the PE/Health Department and athletic director at Carol Morgan School in
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
She teaches high school health and
physical education classes and coaches
high school girls’ volleyball.
Peter Walker ’01 of Corvallis
married Jennifer Butler Nov. 5. He
is attending George Fox Seminary
and is a credit manager at OSU
Credit Union in Lebanon.
Desiree Hoskins ’02 is pursuing a master’s in environmental
management at the University of
New South Wales in Sydney,
Australia.
Graham Petersen ’03 of Lake
Oswego is a senior accountant at
Geffen Mesher & Co. PC.
Iwalani Harry and Matthew
Mosley both ’03 were married
March 25. They live in Wailuku,
Hawaii.
Aja Hicks ’03 of Vancouver,
Wash., received his JD from the
Vanderbilt University Law School in
May and took the Washington bar
exam in July.
Tyler Matthews ’03 of
McMinnville is working at
Corrigan Wickman Advisory LLC.
Nicole Hansen and David
Smithson, both ’03, were married
June 3. She works at the University
of Tennessee Health Science Center
in Memphis. He is working on his
Ph.D. in biochemistry research for
rational drug design at the
University of California at San
Francisco.
Lyndsay (Ushler) Parker ’04
of Lincoln, England, and her husband, Justin, had a daughter, Faith
Elizabeth, June 2.
Kelly Turner ’04 of Hillsboro
served as advisor to the Glencoe
High School’s One-Act Play Festival.
Melissa Schmeer ’04 married
Micah Baker ’04 May 27. They
live in Salem.
James and Kristen (Snook)
Michael, both ’04, live in
McMinnville. Kristen is the preven-
tion specialist and youth development coordinator for the Yamhill
County Juvenile Crime and
Substance Abuse Prevention
Program. James is director of marketing for Maysara Estate Winery.
Danya Lusk ’04 of Stony
Brook, N.Y., is working on a master
of fine arts in dramaturgy and a
graduate certificate in women’s
studies at Stony Brook University.
Liz (Coburn) Delapoer ’04
of Beaverton is a public relations
account coordinator at VTM, Inc.
Brandi McElfresh ’04 of Bend
is assistant professional at Meadows
Golf Course in Sunriver.
Lindsay Aney ’05 of Paisley
married Anton Chiono June 24. She
is pursuing her Ph.D. at the
University of California at Berkeley.
Shannon Aho ’05 of Astoria
was Clatsop County’s first
Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association rodeo queen. She is a
nurse at Columbia Pacific Urology
and at Columbia Memorial Hospital.
Tommy Paterson ’05 of
McMinnville officially retired from
baseball. He was drafted by the
Philadelphia Philies in 2005 and
after being released in June spent a
few weeks with the Chillocothe
Paints in Ohio.
Tim Layman ’05 of Salem is
the head tennis pro at Courthouse
Athletic Club in Salem.
Elizabeth Kumbalek ’05
married Dustin Blumenstein ‘06
July 22.
Andy Peters ’06 of Lake
Oswego completed an internship at
the Multnomah County human
resources department.
Genice (Stringer) Normand
’06 of Warrenton taught in the
Cannon Beach Children’s Center
summer program.
Anthony Kesler ’06 of Dallas
is working on his MBA at
Willamette University.
In memoriam
Ruth (Stillings) Reitz ’34 of
Ventura, Calif., Feb. 24.
Anne (Sitton) McCollum ’34
of McMinnville, July 12. Survivors
include her daughter, Martha
(McCollum) Howell ’75, son
Mark ’73, daughter-in-law Nancy
(Foster) ’75 and grandchildren
Katelin ’07 and Matthew ’09
McCollum.
F. Bernice (Youngberg) Payne
’35 of McMinnville, May 27.
Elizabeth (Grover) Watson
’36 of Portland, Dec. 16. Survivors
include her sister, Clara (Grover)
Foord ’34.
William O’Mara ’37 of
Cannon Beach, Jan. 29.
Edith (Winkler) Leighton ’36
of Anchorage, Alaska, July 20.
Survivors include her son-in-law,
Larry Baker ’64.
James Martin ’38 of Jenera,
Ohio, Aug. 4.
Kenneth Cherrick ’39 of
Milwaukie, June 2.
Rev. George Lindsay ’40 of
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 7. Survivors
include his wife, Marjorie
(Ruhndorf) ’42.
George Connick ’40 of
Kailua, Hawaii, Nov. 13, 2002.
Darlene (Warren) Lightner
’41 of Chiloquin, July 3, 2004.
Lynn Rauch ’41 of Powers,
July 17. Survivors include his wife,
Luella (Blank) ’42.
E. Nelson Sandgren ’41 of
Corvallis, Aug. 17.
Joe Hagman ’42 of Seattle,
Wash., Aug. 20. Survivors include his
wife, Bette (Bush) ’43, and sister
Ethel (Hagman) Anderson ’34.
Atha (Cantlon) Lee ’42 of
Bothel, Wash., June 28.
Kenneth Williams ‘43 of
Newberg, June 20.
John Parrott ’45 of Oakland,
2006 Legacy students advance the multi-generational tradition
Twelve percent of the freshmen enrolling this fall have family members who have attended Linfield. Members of the 2006 Legacy
class include, front row, left to right Jordan Rodgers, Kristin Motz, Caileen Jamieson, James Mason, Shannon Merrick, Ryan Bronson,
Jeffrey Voth, Kyndra Beebehiser, Max Scholten, Samantha Jordan, Emily Vuylsteke, Aaron Cody, Jason Kintz; second row, Kurtis
Wong, Colin Bebee, Joel Pentecost, Paulette Soltani, Tyler Harmon, Elaine Cramer, Alexandra Smith, Rebeka Case, Alexandrea
Chaney, Corinne Swift, Caitlin Busse, Tacia Buslach; third row, Gunnar Cederberg, Jason Haun, Allison Hood, Emily Pincock, Hoku
Leiato, Andrea Duranleau, Brianne Ries, Anna Conklin, Kari Pierce, Ashley Swanson, Clint Moore, Traci Rampone; fourth row,
Rebecca Williams, Jamie Mertz, Keeley Thurman, Janna Baldovin, Scott Ramirez, Blake Anderson, Joelle Cheek, Ashlee Smith, Julie
Scheele, Ali Jannelli, Kaila Lemerande, Andrew Skorney.
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Alumni Profile
Alumni Awards Recipients
Walker Award: Dave Hansen
He’s been a father figure to thousands of Linfield College students but
Dave Hansen takes his parental role
in stride. As dean of students and vice
president for student services, Hansen
oversees the student body while maintaining an active role in the administration and even teaching an occasional course. For his
work on behalf of Linfield during the past 37 years,
Hansen earned the Walker Award, given to a non-alumnus in recognition of service to the college.
Distinguished Alumnus Award: John Creasman ’59
For John Paul Creasman ’59, helping
those less fortunate is a way of life.
From the steamy jungles of South
America to the head waters of the
Amazon, Creasman, assistant professor
in ophthalmology and department
chair at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona,
has spent more than three decades performing
humanitarian work and teaching health education
around the world. He earned the Linfield College
Distinguished Alumnus Award, which honors graduates whose professional achievements mark them as
leaders in their fields.
Calif., Feb. 26.
Leonard Cobb ’45 of
Edmonds, Wash., April 28.
Arthur LeCours ’48
of Klamath Falls, Sept. 18, 2005.
Survivors include his son,
Arthur ’80.
Leonard Monroe ’48 of
Milwaukie, June 30.
Walter Worden ’50 of
Keizer, Aug. 6.
Robert Johnson ’50 of
McMinnville, Aug. 21.
Robert Brandt ’51 of
McMinnville, July 19.
Howard Nichols ’51 of
Junction City, April 20.
Maurice Hamilton ’53 of
Lake Oswego, July 19. Survivors
include his wife, Betty Jean
(Lowrey) ’51, and daughter Mary
(Hamilton) Dong ’88.
Barry Lust ’53 of North
Sewickley Township, Pa., Aug. 2.
James Kribs ’54 of Tualatin,
Aug. 21.
Donald Stensland ’55 of
Wilsonville, April 28.
Tom McDonald ’56 of
Beaverton, May 23.
Arnold Mills ‘58 of
McMinnville, Oct. 8. Survivors include
his wife, Betty (Miller) ‘70.
Robert Atkinson ’60
of Sechelt, British Columbia,
Canada, March 17. Survivors
include his wife, Karen
(McKenzie) ’60.
Margo (Shaepe) Swinney ’61
of Seattle, Wash., April 14, 2005.
Leslie Ross ’63 of Sunriver,
Oct. 15, 2005.
Larry Lockwood ’63 of
McMinnville, June 30.
Christine (Petterson) Palo
’65 of McMinnville, May 25.
Darlene (Nelson) Childers
’66 of Salem, Aug. 2.
Alumni Service Award: Dick Hughes ’75
Dick Hughes ’75 gets paid for having
an opinion. As editorial page editor of
the Salem Statesman Journal, Hughes
shares his thoughts with newspaper
subscribers on a daily basis. For the
past three years, he’s also voluntarily
shared his opinions and publishing
expertise as a member of the Linfield Magazine
Advisory Board. His efforts on behalf of the college
have earned him the Alumni Service Award.
Outstanding Young Alumnus: Peter Fisher ’96
Entrepreneurial spirit emerged early
for Peter Fisher ’96. At 7, he pulled
his red wagon door-to-door selling
holly. At 18, he started a painting
company to subsidize his Linfield
tuition. Now after rising through the
ranks of a national finance company,
Fisher has one again set out on his own in the business world, this time as co-founder of AndersonFisher
LLC, a third party investment and 401(k) consulting
firm. Fisher, this year’s Outstanding Young Alumnus,
is recognized for distinguishing himself in his field.
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Richard Nickels ’69 of
Gillette, Wyo., June 4.
Nanette (Gleaves) Forney
’77 of Eugene, April 12.
Patrick Martindale ’77 of
Yacolt, Wash., June 11.
Eileen Hampton ’81 of
Beaverton, May 12, 2002.
DeMoine “Russ” Mosier ’85
of Oregon City, July 1.
Ruth Slechta ’87 of Gilroy,
Calif., Feb. 5, 2005.
Kelly (McManus) Berends
’88 of Oregon City, April 22.
Scott Buchanan ’89 of
Portland, June 8.
Debra Bakner ’97 of
McMinnville, Sept. 14.
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Carol McCleary GSH ’55 of
San Antonio, Texas, July 22.
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Corinee Armstrong GSH ’58
of Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 26.
Friends and family
Lucile (Ziegler) Earl of
McMinnville, Sept. 1. She worked in
the Linfield controller’s office.
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No cheating:
Hyde studies international elections
Susan Hyde ’00 is making a
major transition from graduate
student to Ivy League faculty
member. She finished her Ph.D.
from the University of
California-San Diego and has
joined the political science faculty at Yale University this fall.
Hyde had been serving as a
research fellow in governance
Susan Hyde ’00
studies at the Brookings
Institution in Washington, D.C., while completing her
dissertation on the promotion of democracy. Her focus
is international elections observation. She has visited
Venezuela, Indonesia and Albania for her research. She
also has read hundreds of
reports from other elections
observers.
“The puzzle I started with
is, why do leaders of countries
invite international elections
observers and then cheat in
front of them?” she said.
“Another thing I’m doing is
applying experimental methods to look at whether international observers reduce
fraud on election day if they
are randomly assigned to polling stations.”
Her research shows fraud is reduced. But the cheating observed is often not as explicit as shoving a handful of pre-marked ballots into a box, she said.
“Mostly, we’re looking for procedural violations,
such as family voting. In Albania, a family would come
in; and the head of the family would fill out everyone’s
ballot, which is prohibited under Albanian law, but it’s a
long-standing practice. The voting began at 6 a.m., and
I don’t think we saw a woman cast her own ballot
before noon.”
Indonesia, where she witnessed voting during two
trips in 2004, had a very successful presidential election,
Hyde said. “It’s sort of an amazing feat that they can pull
it off. The country has nearly 600,000 polling stations,
so it’s a gigantic event – it’s much more diverse than I
had imagined, and in parts of the country, ballot boxes
had to be carried in on foot from remote areas; it took
a week.”
Hyde noted that the transition to democracy can be
turbulent, even violent, and economic stability is more
important than democracy to some people. “I do think,
on balance, that the people who say democracy is not
for everyone are the ones who benefit most from not
having democracy,” she said.
Hyde, who grew up in Sisters, is a Linfield product
in more than one sense. Her parents, Glenda and Dayton
Hyde, met and married while they were students at the
college; both graduated in 1974.
Hyde ran cross-country for Linfield’s track team.
She had considered law school after graduation, but was
steered in another direction by
her professors, including Dawn
Nowacki and Howard Leichter,
both political science professors.
Both remember Hyde as an
outstanding student. They said
they are pleased but not surprised that she has been hired by
an Ivy League university.
“She is an extraordinary
young woman, in just about
every respect,” Leichter said.
“She has a well developed social
conscience. She is articulate and a serious scholar, but
also very generous and gregarious.”
Nowacki described Hyde as “engaging and disciplined in a joyous way. Anything she sets her mind to,
she does very well.” Nowacki said she was pleased when
Hyde was accepted at UC-San Diego, one of the nation’s
top international affairs graduate programs.
At Yale, Hyde will work with the Yale Center for
International and Area Studies and will teach courses in
international affairs.
“When I’m thinking of how to run my classes,” she
said, “the people I tend to think back to are people at
Linfield, not what I’ve observed at the bigger universities. It’s a different style of teaching.”
“When I’m thinking of
how to run my classes,
the people I tend to
think back to are people
at Linfield.”
– Beth Rogers Thompson
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and Chelsey
Chelsey Gellatly
Gellatly ‘07.
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