INDICATES UOAA MEMBER Flavia Sherwood ’27 recently donned some UO regalia and spent the day at the Portland International Raceway, combining her two passions: NASCAR and the Ducks.
October 1 marked the one-hundredth birthday of Kate (Cochran) Dotson ’35. After thirty years as a teacher at Oakdale High School in Oakdale, California, Dotson now lives in Modesto.
After practicing law since 1947, Norman J. Wiener ’41, JD ’47, shares his experiences as a partner at a West Coast law firm in his new memoir, Sixty-Four Years at Miller Nash.
Fenna Klingberg ’47 lives in Fishtail, Montana, with a view of the Beartooth Mountains. To keep busy during her retirement, she manages sixty acres of land with two gardens and volunteers for the local organization Project Hope.
Retired teacher Frank Walsh ’51, MEd ’65, is writing a series of history articles for Pacific Coast Living, a monthly newspaper in Coos Bay.
COURTESY KIP KNIGHT
DUCKS AFIELD
Kip Knight, MEd ’66, DEd ’68, and his wife, Eileen, recently traveled to Peru, including a visit to Machu Picchu. Now retired and living in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Knight formerly taught in Cottage Grove and at the college level at the University of Miami, the University of Delaware, and the American University of Beirut.
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 background details and your class year and degree to quarterly@uoregon.edu.
Mira Frohnmayer ’60 received the University of Oregon Distinguished Alumna Award in June. This annual award recognizes an outstanding former student who has made a difference in the community through teaching and performing music. Frohnmayer has taught in higher education for more than forty-five years.
Returning from a six-month tour of the Middle East “with a ring-side seat for the thrilling political uprisings of the Arab Spring,” Alaby Blivet ’63 stopped by the Oregon Quarterly offices to wish his old friend editor Guy Maynard a glorious retirement and present him with a T-shirt, purchased in Cairo’s Tahrir Square amid 300,000 prodemocracy protesters, emblazoned with the slogan “Power to the People!”
Albert Drake ’62, MFA ’66, published his twenty-sixth book, Overtures to Motion (Throttlers Press, 2011). Three earlier books have been rereleased as e-books.
Longview, Washington, artist Joe M. Fischer, MFA ’63, completed a reading of Guy Maynard’s “exceptional” novel, The Risk of Being Ridiculous, and comments, “If you desire a realistic trip back in time, read Guy’s novel.”
John F. Heilbronner, MEd ’63, MS ’73, and his wife, Esther, received Habitat for Humanity’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award for their outstanding service to the mid-Willamette and Salem-area community. The couple lives in Stayton, enjoying retirement after each teaching thirty-four years in Oregon schools. Three generations of their family have attended or graduated from the UO.
Sally (Christensen) Wittman ’63 will soon be celebrating her seventieth birthday and invites old friends to contact her via her website. Wittman lives in Santa Cruz, California, where she made a “sideways career move” from writing and illustrating children’s books to painting.
Earlier this fall, Jon Jay Cruson ’64, MFA ’67, received an art residency at Playa, a nonprofit organization near Summer Lake. His work also appeared recently at Eugene’s White Lotus Galley in a one-person show, and one of his paintings has been purchased for the Oregon State Capitol collection.
Ray A. Allen ’65 authored Oregon Coast Bridges (North Left Coast Press, 2011), the first comprehensive book on the subject. Profiling forty of the state’s most notable bridges, Oregon Coast Bridges features hundreds of photographs including historic images from the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Rebecca Lee “Becky” Darling ’65, MA ’69, self-published a novel, Just Out of Reach (lulu.com, 2011), which is now available on Amazon.
Gene H. McIntyre, MA ’65, PhD ’69, continues to enjoy his retirement a dozen years in. He sends his best wishes to all Oregon graduates. A degree from the UO, he says, will always open doors just as it did for him during his career.
Don Clark ’67 joins the first board of directors of the Center for Religion, Education, and Public Policy at California State University, Bakersfield.
Ron Wigginton, MFA ’68, received a Morris Graves Foundation Fellowship to further his ongoing series of paintings in residence at “The Lake,” Graves’ home and studio in Loleta, California.
William Bailey ’70 coauthored two books for fellow lawyers, one of which he wrote with his brother Robert ’68. William Bailey credits his teachers at the UO for giving him the inspiration to “change the way lawyers communicate.” His son, also named Robert Bailey, graduated from the UO in 2003.
Robert G. Shibley ’70 has been a professor of architecture and planning at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (UB) since 1982. Last academic year, he was awarded the UB President’s Medal and became dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. He is also a member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.
Steve Berg ’71 founded Grass Strip, a nonprofit organization that promotes aviation education. Berg, who lives in Midway, Georgia, hosted the foundation’s second open house in October. The event featured vintage cars and airplanes.
Steve Poff ’74 credits his thirty-five-year career in social work, counseling, and human services to the insights he made while earning his general social studies degree at the UO. Poff lives in Ellensburg, Washington.
A new grandpa, Mike Donovan, MMus ’76, moved to Wilkesboro, North Carolina, to be closer to his daughter’s family. He also recently retired from teaching and would love to reconnect with old classmates (mike.laura.donovan@gmail.com).
For the 2011–12 academic year, Wanda M. L. Lee, MA ’77, PhD ’79, was chosen as an American Council on Education Fellow, a position awarded to the nation’s leading university faculty members. Lee recently served as dean of faculty affairs and professional development for San Francisco State University and will spend the upcoming school year at De Anza College in Cupertino, California.
Gaylord Reagan, PhD ’78, received his basic engineering certification from the defense industry employer The Analytic Sciences Corporation. Reagan is currently drafting a contract proposal and serving as manager of a customer project.
For her work translating Dominique Charpin’s Reading and Writing in Babylon, Jane Marie Todd, MA ’79, MA ’81, PhD ’83, won the prestigious French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize. The award recognizes a superior English translation of French nonfiction prose. Todd works as a freelance translator based in Portland.
Randol B. Fletcher ’80 authored Hidden History of Civil War Oregon (The History Press, 2011), which shares the stories of Oregon’s Civil War veterans. Fletcher lives in Winchester, Virginia, where he works as a federal disaster official for FEMA.
In January, Ron van der Veen ’81 joined the Seattle office of DLR Group, where he works as a principal with a focus on design quality in sustainability.
William Badrick ’83 is principal at Portland-based home design and planning business Design Vision. In 2010, he was a finalist to design the Calgary Bridge and is currently one of twenty-two international finalists to design the National Navajo Code Talkers Museum.
Martha Clarkson ’83 was one of only three national recipients of the International Interior Design Association Leadership Award, which honors an outstanding commitment to design and business. Clarkson worked for fourteen years at two Seattle-based architecture firms before joining Microsoft’s real estate division, where she has managed workplace design for the last fourteen years. See her essay on page 64.
During summer 2011, Maria (Artiz) Saenz, MA ’83, PhD ’86, published a book, Addiction in Context: A Philosophical Perspective (Trafford Publishing, 2011), dealing with the issue of addiction as a cultural and social phenomenon.
L. J. Sellers ’83 shares her experiences as a journalist and a mystery and suspense writer in her new book Write First, Clean Later (Spellbinder Press, 2011). Sellers is the author of the Detective Jackson mysteries.
On August 29, 2011, Space News International named Kjell Karlsen ’87 one of ten people who made a difference in space last year. Karlsen is president of satellite launch company Sea Launch AG. He lives in Rolling Hills Estates, California, with his wife of twenty years, Karen (Mackin) Karlsen ’86.
Mike Shippey ’89 accepted the position as statewide roadside development program coordinator with the Oregon Department of Transportation. Shippey also runs Coyote Creek Ecological Services and serves as president of the Willamette Resources and Education Network board. He lives in Eugene with his wife of thirty-four years, Mary Minniti ’75. The couple is expecting their first grandchild.
Originally from Lincoln City, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Theo K. Moore ’90 served in Afghanistan until November 2011. Moore and his wife await the arrival of their third child, a boy.
As one of 150 people selected by NASA in a Twitter competition, Susannah Bodman ’91 got a front-row seat to view the final space shuttle launch on July 8, 2011. When not watching history in the making, Bodman works as an editor of the Statesman Journal in Salem.
Michael J. Hampton ’91 is the new director of career development and services at Linfield College. He is also founder of procareering.com, a career counseling and coaching website.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jeremy B. Moore ’93 commands a stability transition unit in the Eighty-Second Airborne Division.
Shauna L. Nosler ’93 published her first book, The Caretakers (CreateSpace, 2011). Before attempting a book, Nosler wrote short stories during college about the ups and downs of sorority life at the UO.
Jason Cortlund ’94 just wrapped postproduction on his feature-length narrative film Now, Forager, about New York’s wild mushroom hunters. The film is set to premiere in early 2012.
Lt. Col. Lance Englet ’94 joins the UO as a courtesy professor of military science. A recent graduate from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Englet received his commission through the UO’s ROTC program in 1994.
Owner of Costello Kennedy Landscape Architecture Matthew Kennedy ’94 was selected to develop a new destination on the Lewis and Clark National Trail for Nebraska’s Ponca Tribe.
This September, Rico Lea ’94 opened his new franchise business, Paul Davis Emergency Services. Lea also owns two businesses in Albany: a Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Carino’s Italian. He lives in Eugene with his wife, Kirsten Henry-Lea ’92, and their family.
Dean of arts at the University of Ghana, Legon, Emmanuel Kweku Osam, PhD ’94, has been promoted to the position of pro vice chancellor (equivalent to vice president). Osam is married to Susanna (De-Veer) Osam, MA ’93.
Karianne Fallow ’95 joined Red Sky Public Relations in Boise, Idaho. She and husband Tony have a two-year-old and are expecting their second child in December.
Julia Manela ’95, JD ’02, Natalie Scott, JD ’02, and Loren Scott, JD ’02, and have opened a new law firm in Eugene. The Scott Law Group deals with cases involving bankruptcy, creditor representation, and other business matters. For the third year in a row, Loren was chosen by Super Lawyers magazine as a Rising Star in the field of bankruptcy and creditor and debtor rights.
Luke Harrington ’98 works as a concept artist at Maxis Electronic Arts in San Francisco, California. Previously Harrington taught matte painting at the Art Institute of Sunnyvale.
COURTESY KRYSTYN SERVIS
CLASS NOTABLE
Krystyn “Kricket” Servis ’08, who majored in Russian and East European studies in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as digital art in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, trekked in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado between Grays Peak and Torreys Peak, two summits of more than 14,000 feet.
Colin McArthur ’01, MCRP ’06, is a new partner at the Eugene-based landscape architecture and planning firm Cameron McCarthy (formerly Cameron McCarthy Gilbert & Scheibe). McArthur has worked for the firm since 2005.
Natalie Scott, JD ’02, Loren Scott, JD ’02, and Julia Manela ’95, JD ’02, have opened a new law firm in Eugene. The Scott Law Group deals with cases involving bankruptcy, creditor representation, and other business matters. For the third year in a row, Loren was chosen by Super Lawyers magazine as a Rising Star in the field of bankruptcy and creditor and debtor rights.
Travis M. Smith ’03 was promoted to director of development for the College of Business at Oregon State University. He works at the OSU Foundation’s Portland office.
Katie Nollenberger ’04, ’06, departed in October for the Peace Corps in Colombia. She is teaching English alongside public school teachers.
This past June, Juliette Moore ’05 graduated from the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. She began her residency as a general surgeon at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Los Angeles, California.
For the past three years Annie Brandjord ’07 has worked in Washington, D.C., for USAID Contracts focusing on international health projects. She left this job in October to join the Peace Corps in Mali.
Eric T. Cook ’07 recently started a new position in Portland as the operations and human resource manager for interactive marketing agency the PDC Group.
Christopher Young, MArch ’07, was promoted to associate at Ratcliff Architecture in Emeryville, California. Since 2008 Young has worked at Ratcliff, where he has assisted in projects including the multimillion-dollar Acute Tower Replacement Project for Highland Hospital in Oakland.
Eugene-based brand design firm Funk/Levis & Associates hired Lindsey Autry ’08 to work on the account management team in the new position of digital media coordinator. Autry’s experience with marketing and digital media began at Fifth Street Public Market, where she worked as marketing assistant for two years.
Monica Ortiz ’09 will serve as a youth delegate for her home country, the Philippines, at COP-17, the largest meeting of United Nations members to discuss climate change. This year’s conference is in Durban, South Africa.
Joe McRae ’10 is a new account executive at Funk/Levis & Associates, a brand design firm in Eugene. McRae has nine years of experience in the design field.
CAS Alumni Fellow Charles F. Delzell ’41 died March 28. He was ninety-one. A World War II vet, Delzell served in Northern Africa and Italy in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. He spent the majority of his career as a professor at Vanderbilt University, where he taught modern European history. During his career, Delzell received numerous awards, including Vanderbilt’s Thomas Jefferson Award for Distinguished Service. His book Mussolini’s Enemies: The Italian Anti-Fascist Resistance (Princeton University Press, 1961) is considered a seminal work on Italy’s anti-Fascist organizations.
The last surviving starter of the NCAA’s first championship basketball team, John Dick ’41 died September 22 at age ninety-two. Dick was a senior member and captain of the Tall Firs in 1939, the year the team claimed the UO’s sole NCAA basketball championship and first national team title. Also while at the UO, Dick served as student body president, Sigma Nu brother, and ROTC member. After graduation, he made his career in the Navy, in which he had enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor. Having served in three wars, Dick retired in 1973 as a rear admiral. Known throughout his life by his military title, the admiral spent his retirement attending Ducks basketball games and practices in his varsity jacket. Dick’s love of sports led to his nomination as the first inductee to the Pac-10’s Hall of Honor in 2002 and continued work with UO athletics. He was a member of the UO Alumni Association for seventy-one years.
Editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald from 1946 to 1947 Marguerite “Beaver” (Wittwer) Wright ’47 died August 27. Born in Scharnachtal, Switzerland, Wright died in Portland. During World War II, Wright used the sheet-metal craft she learned as a journalism major to build ships in California for the war effort. After college, Wright was hired as the first editorial assistant of former Oregon governor Charles A. Sprague, then editor-publisher of The Statesman in Salem. During her lifetime, Wright filled a number of prestigious positions, including aide to the attorney general and director of communication for the Oregon Historical Society. She and husband Thomas Wright celebrated a sixty-fifth wedding anniversary this past June.
World War II veteran William Dean Ireland ’48 died May 7 at the age of eighty-five. Ireland spent his service in Hawaii where he grew to love Hawaiian music and “aloha” shirts. After the war, he returned to the mainland to study at the UO. While at school, he met his wife, Carolyn Hinson ’48. The two were married for sixty-two years. Ireland worked as vice president of the security trust department at Bank of America in San Francisco for twenty-two years. Upon his retirement in 1983, he and Carolyn spent many a vacation traveling the country in their motor home.
Recently eighty-three, Paul N. McCracken Jr. ’49 died at home on July 25. A member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, McCracken joined the ROTC while at the UO. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve where he continued to serve until his retirement as a full colonel. Shortly after graduation, McCracken married Sally Moore ’50, his wife of almost sixty-one years. McCracken spent his career in the lumber business and volunteered for both the World Forestry Center and the Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation, both of which recognized him for his dedicated service. During the latter half of his life, McCracken purchased timberland to protect fish and wildlife, work that led to the establishment of the McCracken Woodlands LLC.
John H. “Jack” Sullivan ’49 died May 7 at age eighty-eight. During his time at the UO, Sullivan enlisted in the U.S. Army infantry and served in the South Pacific during World War II. After his honorable discharge from the military, Sullivan returned to school and finished his degree. He also married Elizabeth Miller, whom he met in Eugene; this year marks the couple’s sixty-second wedding anniversary. Sullivan made his career as a professor at schools including Washington State College, the College of Idaho, and the University of Idaho, where he taught foreign languages until his retirement in 1986. He and his wife spent their last years traveling around the world.
Richard “Dick” Dorr ’52, MM ’75, died July 25 with his family by his side. A U.S. Navy veteran, Dorr taught high school band for more than forty years. After retiring from teaching, Dorr founded the bus line company Discovery Charters. He served on the board of directors for the California Bus Association (CBA), where he was president from 1995 to 1997. He retired again, this time from the bus industry, in 1999 and devoted his time to the Arroyo Grande Lions Club and the Dallas Rotary Club. He rooted for the San Francisco 49ers, San Francisco Giants, and the Oregon Ducks.
UO Foundation trustee and emerita president Carolyn Chambers ’53 died August 8 at age seventy-nine. Chambers started her career early by launching Chambers Communications at age twenty-five. Two years later she received the license for KEZI-TV, which has been on the air for more than fifty years with Chambers at the helm until last December. Throughout her various successes in business, she has generously supported her alma mater. Donations from Chambers include a $1 million gift to the School of Law to establish the Center for Law and Entrepreneurship and funding to the School of Journalism and Communication to create the Carolyn S. Chambers Electronic Media Center. She received a number of awards honoring her service to the UO including the Lundquist College of Business “Alumni Trailblazer” Visionaries Award, the Pioneer Award, the Distinguished Service Award, and the Presidential Medal.
Donald V. Picker ’53 died on September 23, a few weeks short of his eightieth birthday. Before retiring on the Oregon Coast, Picker worked as a detective in the police department in Newport Beach, California. Picker and his wife, Dorothy, were married forty-six years.
J. William Neuner ’63 died June 8 at the age of seventy. A member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, Neuner lived in Eugene after graduation before moving home to Roseburg and purchasing an accounting firm, known today as Neuner, Davidson & Cooley. Neuner is a past president of the Roseburg City Council and served as a member of the city’s chamber of commerce. In his spare time, he loved to watch UO football and was known by friends and family as “Mr. Duck.”
Former dean of the UO School of Law Derrick Bell died October 5. He was eighty. Bell was a pioneer of studying racism in the U.S. legal system with his book Race, Racism, and American Law remaining a standard of the field almost four decades after its initial publishing. The first tenured black professor of Harvard Law School, Bell came to the UO in 1980 where he worked for five years. Bell resigned from prestigious positions over differences involving race and hiring practices; he left both Harvard and the UO under such circumstances. Before becoming a scholar, Bell was an ROTC member and served in the Air Force.
Professor emeritus of architecture and World War II veteran John Briscoe died July 8. Briscoe worked at the UO from 1953 until his retirement in 1987, time he spent on a number of department projects including research with the Energy Studies in Buildings Lab. He was also a partner in Eugene-based firm Briscoe & Berry Architects, president of the Oregon Council of Architects, and member on the Oregon Board of Architect Examiners.
Emeritus professor of sociology Lawrence Carter, MA ’70, PhD ’73, died of multiple sclerosis on October 5 at the age of sixty-eight. A demographer, Carter made major methodological breakthroughs in the study of mortality rates, in particular, the “Lee-Carter Method,” developed in conjunction with Ronald Lee of the University of California at Berkeley. Carter’s areas of research included demography, statistical research methods, and urban sociology.
Walter Neil “Mac” McLaughlin ’49 died on August 10. He served in Asia during World War II. He later attended the UO on the GI Bill and married his wife Marion. They were married sixty-four years. After briefly working as a state auditor, McLaughlin returned to the UO, where he began a career of more than three decades, retiring as the director of business affairs. His work at the UO was highly praised; former University president Paul Olum once wrote of McLaughlin’s “exceptional loyalty to the University.” McLaughlin also served as the president of the Western Association of College and University Business Officers.
World War II Army veteran Donald S. Taylor died July 7 at age eighty-six. Taylor taught in the UO English department for thirty-eight years, receiving professor emeritus status in 2000. During his time at the university, Taylor was head of the classics department, director of English graduate studies, and head of the ethnic studies department.
Just a few weeks short of her eighty-seventh birthday, Adele Celeste Ulrich died on August 4. Ulrich’s career at the UO began in 1979 as a professor. She later became dean of the now closed College of Human Development and Performance and, after her retirement in 1990, was promoted to dean emerita. Ulrich gave over 500 speeches around the world and authored more than 300 articles for various journals. She was a lifelong Girl Scout, serving on the Girl Scouts Western Rivers Council. She also worked with the AARP Bill Payer Program and the Lane County Legal Aide Services-Senior Law Service.
Professor emeritus A. Kingsley Weatherhead died August 29 at the age of eighty-seven. Born in England, Weatherhead served in the navy during World War II. After the war, he earned degrees at Cambridge University and the University of Edinburgh before immigrating to America. Weatherhead began his thirty-year career at the UO in 1960 when he was hired as one of the English department’s first modern literature specialists. In 2005, Weatherhead received an endowed professorship in his name as a gift from Bob Lee, PhD ’66, and wife Gloria. Weatherhead was Bob’s graduate adviser and dissertation director.
In Memoriam Policy
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1921 Physical education instructor H. A. Scott, formerly of Columbia University, notes better general health and fewer unusually fat men at Oregon compared with eastern schools. He attributes the disparities to sturdy genetic stock and vigorous outdoor activities (including working hard jobs in the summer) while easterners often loll around beaches or resorts.
1931 UO faculty and staff members vote unanimously to approve Governor Meier’s request that all state employees give one day’s pay each month for five months to aid in unemployment relief.
1941 On December 8, nine o’clock classes are cancelled and students and faculty members flock to Gerlinger Hall to listen to a radio broadcast of Franklin Roosevelt delivering his “day of infamy” address to Congress about the Pearl Harbor attack.
1951 A retrospective of the University’s first seventy-five years is published, including a list of the twenty-three football coaches who guided the teams between 1894 and 1950 with a combined record of 220 wins, 158 losses, and 33 ties.
1961 Sigma Chi becomes the last fraternity to remove restrictive membership eligibility clauses based on race from its constitution in compliance with an ultimatum from the State Board of Higher Education.
1971 The UO is selected as the site for the 1972 Olympic track-and-field trials, and longtime UO coach Bill Bowerman ’34, MEd ’53, is named head coach of the track-and-field team that will compete in next summer’s sure-to-be eventful games in Munich, Germany.
1981 Professor Barry Bates of the UO Biomechanics Laboratory studies shoe design and function with an eye to reducing the injuries suffered by nearly a quarter of America’s estimated 40 million joggers.
1991 The Association of Oregon Recyclers names the UO Campus Recycling Program, which coordinates the recycling of some twenty-five tons of paper a month, the state’s best educational and promotional effort for recycling.
2001 The University Computing Center digitizes the 1931 Oregana yearbook and places it on the Internet (31yearbook.uoregon.edu). The book is bathed in the last rays of Jazz Age optimism with proms, hops, and grand balls; summer cruises to Alaska and Hawaii; the polo team playing in Chicago; and the debate team touring Japan, India, Mexico, and Australia.
