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1940s
Freelance writer Elaine Dahl Rohse ’42 won second place in the annual Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for her weekly column in the McMinnville News-Register. Her book, Poverty Wasn’t Painful (Inkwater Press, 2008), was published last year. Rohse lives in McMinnville with her husband, Homer Rohse ’46, former general manager of the News-Register.
Ray Packouz ’43, a member of Sigma Alpha Nu, is a proud Duck living in Lake Oswego. He and his wife Dorothy have been married for sixty-three years.
Betty McFadyen ’45 lived and taught school in Guam for forty-five years. McFadyen is proud to have two Duck heirs, Patricia ’69 and Bard ’70.
Betty (Reynolds) Beck ’47 is a retired elementary school teacher living in Milwaukie.
Carolyn Hinson Ireland ’48, a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, has been married to William “Bill” Ireland ’48 for sixty years. Ireland gets together with a group of AGD sisters several times a year.
Warren Lovell ’49 retired a few years ago as medical examiner and coroner of California’s Ventura County and is working part time at age eighty-six as a medical legal consultant. Lovell writes that while he enjoys the Southern California climate, he misses the beautiful greens of Oregon.
Mary Ann Delsman ’50, M.S. ’63, returned to Oregon from Southern California last year upon retirement from the United States Air Force.
Morris G. Sahr ’51, M.A. ’53, a certified financial planner in Charlottesville, Virginia, is listed in the thirty-seventh edition of Who’s Who in Finance and Business.
Albert “Al” Martin ’54, a member of Beta Theta Pi, wrote Ollie, Ollie Outs in Free: A Novel (AO Martin, 2008), which tells the story of how six partisans in Nazi Germany help 7,000 Jews escape to England.
George E. Hering, M.Ed. ’55, a retired educator, with his son, Thomas E. Hering ’76, a marketing communications professional, proudly watched as his grandson, Cameron Hering ’09, graduated this summer, marking the third generation of Hering men to hold UO diplomas.
David Mackin ’57, a member of Alpha Tau Omega, a certified financial planner and senior vice president of Wells Fargo Advisors in San Francisco, California, competed in Portland’s Waterford Crystal 2009 World Handball Championships in October.
Joseph J. Peak ’57, M.Ed. ’61, a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, and his wife, Irene, owned an antique shop for a number of years but are now semiretired. The couple has a booth space at Quality Antiques, a market in Fortuna, California.
Thomas “Shakey” Levak ’61, a member of Beta Theta Pi, was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame this fall for his record in competitive karate, including seventeen United States Karate National Championships and a number of international and world championships. [Levak was profiled in the Autumn 2005 issue of OQ.]
Ann Strachan Bethune ’62, a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, is a licensed professional counselor in Portland.
Janice (Nakata) Modin ’62 retired after forty-five years as a flight attendant and instructor for Northwest Airlines. Modin lives in Burbank, California. [An error appeared in Ms. Modin’s class note in OQ’s Autumn issue.]
Hoping to “cash in on the synergies of globalized gastronomy,” Alaby Blivet ’63 says his company, the Blivet Biscuit Works, is launching a line of “tasty kim chee–inspired snack and beverage treats”—everything from ‘Chee-Whiz’ and ‘Kim-Brownies’ to ‘KrunChee Munchies,’ and ‘SeoulQuench’ kim chee–flavored bottled water. “In these tough economic times,” says Blivet, “we think of these products as our own stimulus plan for America’s taste buds.”
A painting of North Head Lighthouse by artist Joe M. Fischer, M.F.A. ’63, was recently acquired by the Columbia Maritime Museum in Astoria.
Grant Ledgerwood ’63, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, is the progression mentor in the Prince’s Trust, a national charity foundation sponsored by the Prince of Wales and aimed at assisting at-risk young adults with education and employment opportunities. His professional practice, Strategy Design Studio, is based in Kent, near London.
Rebecca Lee Darling ’65, M.A. ’69, won second place in the adult nonfiction category in the 2009 Willamette Writers Kay Snow writing contest for her essay Queen of the Nile.
Bruce Bonine ’67 is president of Medical Facility Innovations, which provides architectural consultation and medical planning services for major medical centers worldwide.
Carl Wooten, Ph.D ’67, is teaching at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he has been working for sixteen years. Wooten has forty-five years of teaching under his belt and reports that he has no intention of retiring soon! His story, Ramblers and Spinners, is included in the anthology Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review (Ivan R. Dee, 2008).
James C. Casterline ’68 is practicing law in Seaside. He and his wife of forty-two years, Maureen, live in Gearhart with Luke, their faithful dalmatian.
California attorney Thomas Dempsey, J.D. ’68, received the Public Justice Foundation’s Champion of Justice Award for his leadership and record of inspiring accomplishments in public interest law.
Recent retiree Vincent J. McGilvra ’68, a member of Phi Delta Theta, is enjoying traveling, most recently to Egypt and Greece. McGilvra owns Skipper’s Smokehouse Restaurant and Music Emporium in Tampa, Florida.
LeslieAnn Butler ’69, a member of Alpha Chi Omega, has written If Your Hair Falls Out, Keep Dancing (Nightengale Press, 2008), a how-to book that addresses “dealing with emotional and cosmetic aspects of hair loss, whether from alopecia areata or chemotherapy.”
Steve Pearson ’69 retired as senior vice president for human resources at Building Materials Holding Corporation, a nationwide building materials sales and services company. Pearson lives in Boise with his wife and the two Model T Fords he is restoring.
Charles Urbanowicz ’69, Ph.D. ’72, is retiring from thirty-seven years of teaching anthropology at California State University, Chico. He will spend more of his time lecturing aboard cruise ships, a favorite pastime.
Avette Gaiser ’70 is the proprietor of Hidden Cove Bed and Breakfast on Devil’s Lake in Lincoln City.
Doug Plambeck ’72 received Portland General Electric’s 2009 Outstanding PGE Volunteer Award, which honors individuals who have shown an extraordinary commitment to their communities throughout the year.
Linda (Welch) Crew ’73 has published a new edition of her historical novel A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845 (Ooligan Press, 2009). First published by the Oregon Historical Society Press as a Stephens Prize winner, the book went on to win numerous awards, including making the Oregon State Library’s list of the 150 best Oregon books for the sesquicentennial. Crew lives in Corvallis with her husband of thirty-five years.
David A. Sonnenfeld ’73 served as a coeditor for The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2009), his third book, a volume aimed at classroom, scholarly, and policymaking audiences. Sonnenfeld is a professor and chair of the environmental studies department at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York.
Pete Sorenson ’73, M.A. ’79, J.D. ’82, is living in Eugene and serving his fourth term as a Lane County commissioner. Sorenson is the chair of the 2009 Board of Commissioners and lectured on citizen enforcement of federal environmental laws at several law schools this fall.
Sue Dowty ’74 was named the 2007 Oregon state middle-level adviser by the Oregon Association of Student Councils and then 2008 Region 7 middle-level adviser of the year by the National Association of Student Councils. She has been teaching middle school and advising student councils for almost thirty years.
Tim Verkler ’76 published Denali Diary, a photo journal featuring photographs of a 1975 UO Outdoor Program mountain climbing adventure in Denali. The book is available at www.denalidiary.com.
Kim Goldberg ’77, who is an award-winning poet, journalist, and author of five books, is living in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Klement Hambourg, D.M.A. ’77, former artistic director of the Celebration of Chamber Music concert series in Victoria, British Columbia, has relocated to Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.
Warren Nelson, M.S. ’78, a partner at Fisher and Phillips in Irvine, California, was named one of the Labor Relations Institute’s “Top 100 Labor Attorneys” in the United States. Nelson was also selected for inclusion in “The Best Lawyers in America, 2010” ranking.
Dan Friedmann ’79 has cofounded D2M Consulting, a management consulting company that targets new and small businesses and assists with technology, marketing, and business process improvements, along with strategic financing guidance.
Timothy M. Leonard ’83 has written A Century Is Nothing, a novel about Omar, an exiled Tuarag Berber, and Mr. Point, a Vietnam veteran, as they embark on a pilgrimage through the Middle East and, in turn, the subconscious.
John A. Heldt ’85, a member of Sigma Nu, is vice president and president-elect of the Montana Library Association’s Public Library Division. He is the reference and information services librarian at Lewis and Clark Library in Helena. His wife, Cheryl (Fellows) Heldt ’86, a member of Delta Delta Delta, is the school system coordinator for Montana’s Office of Public Instruction.
After more than five years as the vice president for university relations at Portland State University, Catherine McVeety ’85 recently became vice president of college advancement at Mount Hood Community College and executive director of the Mount Hood Community College Foundation. McVeety has worked in development for more than twenty years.
CLASS NOTABLE
Soprano Cassandra Ewer ’87 performed on two recordings that received 2008 Grammy Award nominations and won a Grammy for her work as featured soloist on a third, Spotless Rose: Hymns to the Virgin Mary, in the Best Small Ensemble Performance category. Her professional appearances have included concerts in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, and ten seasons with the Oregon Bach Festival chorus. She and her husband Richard Ewer ’89, an accomplished composer, live in Phoenix, Arizona.
Cheryl (Bayne) Landes ’86 was selected as an associate fellow with the Society for Technical Communication, an honor celebrating her more than fifteen years of experience in technical communication. Landes is the owner of Seattle-based Tabby Cat Communications. [An error appeared in Ms. Landes’s class note in OQ’s Autumn issue.]
Marcus Prater ’86 is the executive director of the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers, a Las Vegas–based global trade organization representing the interests of slot machine companies and other gaming suppliers.
Sharlene Simon ’86 is the assistant director of research proposal development at North Carolina State University.
Leslie Clason Robinette ’87 earned universal accreditation in public relations from the Public Relations Society of America. She works as coordinator of district communications for North Clackamas Schools, Oregon’s fifth-largest school district. She and husband Dan Robinette ’88, M.Ed. ’92, who teaches physics at Clackamas High School, live in Milwaukie with their sons Zane and Logan.
Laura Girardeau ’88, M.S. ’95, and husband Christopher Hundhausen, M.S. ’93, Ph.D. ’99, are enjoying their baby Lily Grace, who is a budding comedian, artist, and “staunch Obama supporter!”
Ted Tellefsen ’88 is a manager with Scottrade, a leading branch-supported online investment firm. Tellefsen manages the company’s Fairfield, California, office.
Kathleen Sousa-Yonehiro ’90 is the hula instructor at Hula Halau O Kehaulani, the hula school she founded in 2006 in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.
Geoffrey Collver ’94, Ph.D. ’99, is the legislative director for Ohio state treasurer Kevin Boyce.
Genoa Black ’95 married Dr. Bryan A. Black last year. The happy couple resides in Newport.
Joseph Franco ’96 has joined Portland law firm Markowitz, Herbold, Glade, and Mehlhaf as an associate. Franco’s practice will focus on complex commercial litigation.
Zach Hochstadt ’96 is a founding partner of Mission Minded, a marketing communications firm serving nonprofit organizations. He and his wife, Sadie, have two children and live in San Francisco.
Daniel A. Talley, Ph.D. ’96, is a professor of economics and statistics at Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota.
Jennifer (Roland) Cadiente ’98 edited a collection of articles from Learning and Leading with Technology magazine titled “The Best of L&L: Selections from Volumes 31–35,” released this year by the International Society for Technology in Education, a nonprofit educational technology association that started on the UO campus in the 1970s.
Dan Harbison ’98, a member of Chi Psi, the director of interactive marketing and media for the Portland Trail Blazers, received national coverage from USA Today for his groundbreaking use of Twitter and other social media platforms on behalf of the Trail Blazers.
Anthony E. Clark ’99, Ph. D. ’05, and his wife, Amanda C. R. Clark ’01, M.A. ’05, have relocated to Spokane, Washington, where he has accepted a position as assistant professor of Asian history at Whitworth University and she will continue working toward a doctorate in library and information studies.
Jonathan F. Douglas, M.B.A ’99, who is a managing principal in the Orlando, Florida, Office of International Architecture, served as moderator for a panel discussion at the 2009 Midwest Lodging and Investors Summit, held in July in Chicago.
Jennifer Vernon, M.A. ’99, has published her first book of poetry, Rock Candy. Her poem “Blackberry Pie” was recently featured on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor.
Louis Copbianco ’00 is the director of legislative affairs for Ohio state governor Ted Strickland. Copbianco coordinates legislative strategy not only for the governor’s office but also for every state agency that reports to the governor.
DUCKS AFIELD
Who says there’s no “O” in “Africa”? Not Portland lawyer D. Ben Henzel ’90, J.D. ’94, who spent eight days hiking up Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro and is shown here (left) atop the continent’s highest peak at more than 19,000 feet. “I couldn’t think of anything that would be more fun to signify the accomplishment than the Duck flag,” says Henzel.In Ducks Afield OQ publishes photos of graduates with UO regalia (hats, T-shirts, flags, and such) in the most distant or unlikely or exotic or lovely places imaginable. We can’t use blurry shots and only high-resolution digital files, prints, or slides will reproduce well in our pages. Send your photo along with details and your class year and degree to quarterly@uoregon.edu.
Maurice Hamington, M.A. ’00, Ph.D. ’01, has written his fifth book, The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams. An associate professor of women’s studies and philosophy at Metropolitan State College of Denver, Hamington recently became the director of the school’s Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, making him one of the few men in the country to ever head a women’s studies program and a women’s center.
Richelle Leaverton ’02 married Nick Rice ’01 earlier this year at a winery in central California.
Dan Flanagan, M.Mus. ’03, lecturer in violin at the University of California at Davis, is concertmaster of the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, Sacramento Opera, and California Musical Theatre. Flanagan and his wife, Rita, opened Sacramento School of Music, a community music school, in 2008.
Sonya R. Lawson, Ph. D. ’03, was awarded tenure at Westfield State College in Massachusetts, where she is an assistant professor of music history. Her paper, Prototypes and Categorization: Working Toward a More Inclusive History of Jazz, was accepted for presentation at the 2009 National College Music Society conference. Lawson has also written a chapter for the book De-Canonizing Music History, which will be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this fall.
Pianist Anna Ballard Bendorf ’04 and her husband, Adam, founded Alberti Publishing, a music publishing company specializing in high-end, cutting-edge curriculum and resources for private piano teachers. Bendorf also recently cowrote The Right Notes, a teaching aid for piano students.
Alex Pajunas ’06 won best photo essay and best sports photograph in the Oregon Better Newspapers Contest. Pajunas works as a photographer at The Daily Astorian.
Dancer Hannah Bontrager ’07 performed several solo roles, including the sugar plum fairy in The Nutcracker, with the Manassas Ballet Theatre in Northern Virginia in the company’s 2008–9 season. She performed in and coproduced Danse en Rouge: Variations in Red at the Hult Center in Eugene, and choreographed the Eugene Symphony’s Carnival of the Animals.
Cory Eldridge ’07 won best news photograph, best enterprise reporting, best general feature, best sports story, and best special section in the Oregon Better Newspapers Contest. Eldridge works for The Dalles Chronicle. [A piece by Eldridge describing his experiences in the Middle East appeared in the Winter 2006 issue of OQ. The story was expanded and reprinted in the online travel magazine Worldhum.]
Jesse Jones, M.Mus. ’07, composed Toccata for Orchestra, which was performed by the American Composers Orchestra at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre in May.
Scott Ordway, M.Mus. ’08, has started work on his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania as a Benjamin Franklin Fellow. He is the music and culture critic for ArtsEditor, Boston’s online magazine.
Coast Guard Seaman Evan D. Trapp ’08 recently graduated from the United States Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, New Jersey.
Hans H. Plambeck ’35, M.A. ’38, died at age ninety-eight. Plambeck, a mathematics and sociology professor, taught for twenty years at what was then Oregon State College. His wife of sixty-seven years, Julia Umstead ’37, preceded him in death in 2007. Plambeck enjoyed travel, camping, gardening, and working puzzles.
Robert S. Lovell ’42, a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, died following a long illness. Lovell was active in countless civic and community organizations in Astoria, where he lived with his wife of sixty-seven years, Mary. Lovell was also a lifelong member of the Boy Scouts of America, serving for thirty-two years as scoutmaster of Troop 211 in Astoria.
Dorothy Jean (Johnson) Rath ’42, former president of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, died at the age of eighty-eight at her home in Hastings, Nebraska. Rath worked for many years for Midwest Irrigation in Henderson, Nebraska.
Marjorie Wiener ’44, the first female editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald, died in June at the age of eighty-six. Wiener served as the editor of the student newspaper in 1944 and was among the first female reporters and editors at the Eugene Register-Guard. A painter, Wiener exhibited at galleries in Virginia and Massachusetts.
Career public servant Freeman Holmer, M.A. ’46, died at the age of ninety-one. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Holmer was a part of Oregon governor Mark Hatfield’s core policymaking team, serving as the state budget director as well as chairman of the Governor’s Policy Coordinating Committee. Holmer worked for ten years as vice chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, based in Eugene, where he also sat on the city council in the 1980s. He and his wife, Marcia, raised two sons.
Joel Lawrence Richardson ’53 died at the age of seventy-seven. Richardson worked in underwriting for State Farm Insurance for thirty-four years in Salem, where he and his wife, Martha Richardson ’54, a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, raised three daughters. A faithful Presbyterian, Richardson was an ordained deacon and an elder in the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America. Richardson’s father, Joel Henry Richardson, graduated from the UO in 1910.
George Shirley ’57, a member of Chi Psi, died in July after a battle with colon cancer. Shirley worked as an administrative attorney with Nationwide Insurance in Portland for twenty-nine years before retiring to Tucson, Arizona, where he served as a docent at the Tohona Chul Park and was a member of the board of the Friends of the University of Arizona Libraries. Education was important to Shirley; in 2005, at the age of seventy, he earned his third academic degree.
James “Jim” Tiger ’60, J.D. ’71, died at the age of seventy-one. Tiger was a beloved member of the Stayton community, where he practiced law for almost forty years. A founding member of Stayton Area Rotary, a Marion County master gardener, and a former first citizen, Tiger also established a grant program with Stayton High School in 2001.
Phil Hansen ’67, J.D. ’70, died in August at the age of sixty-four. A Clark Honors College student, Hansen ran the 3,000-meter steeplechase for coach Bill Bowerman and was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. For thirty years he was a corporate tax attorney and CPA in San Francisco, employed by U.S. Fleet Leasing, KPMG, and Ernst & Young. Retirement brought a deep reconnection with the UO: Hansen acted as an alumni representative for the UO School of Law, he endowed the Philip and Teresa Hansen Germanic Languages and Literatures Scholarships, and in 2007, he wrote and published The History of Germanic Languages at Oregon. Phil’s first wife, Susan [Pennington] ’68, preceded him in death. Hansen is survived by his wife Terri and his children Meredith ’96 and Christian ’97.
Bob Gerding ’63, Ph.D. ’67, died at age seventy-one. Gerding cofounded Gerding Edlen Development Company, the firm that helped transform Portland’s downtown core with beautiful but Earth-friendly buildings. A lifelong lover of theater, Gerding and his wife of forty-nine years, Diana, often took long trips to Ashland’s Shakespeare festival. Gerding gave much of his time and his self-made fortune to Portland’s Center Stage theater company.
Ronald W. Snidow ’63, M.S. ’69, a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and cocaptain of the 1963 football team, died of complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease. Snidow played for ten years in the NFL before settling in Southern California, where he worked in commercial real estate. He and his wife, Marcia Williams ’64, a member of Delta Gamma, raised two sons in Irvine, California. Snidow was inducted into the University of Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame this fall.
Mark O. Wittenberg ’96 died from cancer at the age of thirty-six. A partner at Cerrell Associates, a public relations firm in Los Angeles, California, Wittenberg’s passion was spending time outdoors. He was an avid rock climber, mountain biker, golfer, and fisherman. He was also a gourmet cook and part owner of two Los Angeles–area wine bars.
Eugene native and former UO wrestler Kenny Cox ’01 died at age thirty-nine in an adventure on Kaua’i, Hawaii. Inspired by the novel Into the Wild, Cox had recently moved to Hawaii to live off of the land. He spent more than three months living in the open in Kaua’i’s Kalalau Valley.
Myles Brand, former UO president and head of the National Collegiate Athletics Association, died at age sixty-seven. In his five years as president (1989–1994), Brand piloted the University through some of its toughest financial times. His presidency ended abruptly when he accepted a job as the president of Indiana University, where he drew notoriety as “the man who fired Bobby Knight.” Trained as a philosopher, he became the head of the NCAA in 2002.
WEB EXTRA: Read Myles Brand’s thoughts on becoming UO president in the cover story of OQ’s Autumn 1989 issue.
Warner Peticolas, professor of chemistry for thirty years, died at the age of seventy-nine. Peticolas spoke beautiful French, picked up in the numerous years he spent teaching abroad. An adventurous man, Peticolas enjoyed traveling, skiing, windsurfing, hiking, and camping.
Retired ceramics professor David Stannard died after a yearlong battle with brain cancer in August. Fascinated by clay, Stannard developed new ways to create glaze ingredients using unusual materials such as sawdust or wood. He will be remembered as a humble potter and a master craftsman.
Theater arts professor emeritus Horace Robinson died at the age of ninety-nine in October in Eugene. He came to the UO in 1933 as a technical director and scene designer. In 1946 Robinson became the director of University Theatre (a position he held until 1970) and oversaw the construction in 1949 of the theater attached to Villard Hall. In addition to his on-campus work of teaching, directing, and serving as department head, Robinson led student theater productions on USO tours to entertain troops in places such as Japan, Korea, and the Philippines; served on many theater boards; was active in civic associations; and wrote a book on theater architecture. Upon his retirement in 1975 the University Theatre was renamed in his honor. He served as a consultant on the renovation and expansion of UO theater facilities completed last year.
WEB EXTRA: See two OQ stories related to Horace Robinson.
Decades
Reports from previous Winter issues of Old Oregon and Oregon Quarterly
1919 A student council committee forms to plan a fitting memorial to honor the University’s war dead.
1929 The UO’s 133 telephones will soon be connected through an on-campus exchange. Instead of searching through a long list of names for a number, a caller will reach any department on campus via the University exchange operator, who will be familiar with all campus numbers and able to make immediate connections.
1939 Ten players (20 percent) on this year’s fifty-man varsity football squad weigh in at more than 200 pounds, with six-foot left tackle James Stuart the heaviest hitter of all, tipping the scales at a full 225 pounds.
1949 After many years and several hundred productions in the old Guild Theater in Johnson Hall, the University Theater opens a new 400-seat performance venue in Villard Hall under the delighted eye of theater head Horace Robinson.
1959 Representing the first wave of what is expected to be a flood of increasing college admissions due to the postwar “baby boom,” the class of 1963 has arrived and is hard at work.
1969 Following a new policy by the UO administration that athletes can wear their hair pretty much as they please, head football coach Jerry Frei stays in step with the times, foregoing the crew cut and letting his own locks lengthen.
1979 Based on population forecast models, Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich’s hugely popular book The Population Bomb has frightened readers for more than a decade with predictions of mass starvation, food riots, and nuclear holocaust as a result of human overpopulation—all by the year 2000. Now UO assistant professor of sociology Lawrence Carter, a researcher of the effects of fertility, says not so fast, pointing out a number of errors in Ehrlich’s projections and noting, “Forecast models are by no means exact, and errors do occur.”
1989 Newly inaugurated UO President Myles Brand welcomes Senator Mark Hatfield and Governor Neil Goldschmidt ’63 to the opening ceremony of Willamette Hall, the $45.6 million science complex that is the largest construction project in Lane County history and estimated to have added the equivalent of 550 full-time jobs to the local economy during the three-year life of the project.
1999 UO officials notice abnormally high use of a student’s website, leading the FBI to investigate suspected illegal file sharing. The student pleads guilty to felony charges and becomes the first in the nation convicted under 1997’s No Electronic Theft (NET) law.
