LINFIELD MAGAZINEEditorMardi Milehammmileham@linfield.edu503-883-2498

Assistant EditorLaura Davis

Graphic DesignCandido Salinas III

PhotographyTom BallardCaleb Bushner ’06Kelly BirdLaura Davis

Juan Manuel GómezMujib Kamawal ’06Mardi MilehamThomas Pryor ’96

ContributorsKelly BirdMarvin HenbergLisa Garvey ’86Laura Graham ’07Beth Rogers Thompson

Advisory BoardEd GansKerry (Van Wyngarden)

Hinrichs ’96Dick Hughes ’75R. Gregory NokesSherri (Dunmyer)

Partridge ’86

Interim PresidentMarvin Henberg

Vice President forCollege RelationsBruce Wyatt

Director of AlumniRelationsLisa Garvey ’86

Fall 2005 Vol. 2, No. 2

Linfield Magazine is pub-lished three times annually byLinfield College,McMinnville, Oregon

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Table of Contents

Inside Linfield MagazineOregon offers the perfect environment

for open-air classrooms from the coast to theCascades to the high desert. In this issue, we featureone class that takes students on a five-day explo-ration of the Oregon Coast. We also profile outstanding faculty – two received awards for out-standing teaching, research and service to Linfield,one hopes to secure funding for a hospice programin the Oregon prison system, another spent a 43-day pilgrimage in Spain to gain a better understanding of that country's history, culture and literature and thus enrich his classes. We alsotake a look back to the 1975 Operation Babyliftand the impact of that event on four lives. Thenthere’s that “other” streak – three faculty memberswho have served as “voice of the Wildcats” since1956. We look forward to sharing more storiesabout the people of Linfield.

– Mardi Mileham

On the covers: Front: Jonathan Stanfill ‘06 stands inside Devil’sPunchbowl during the Shoreline Ecology class inNewport in July. (Tom Ballard photo)

Back: Action during Linfield’s 45-7 win overWisconsin-Stevens Point (Caleb Bushner ’06 photos)

Departments4 A View from Melrose

6 Linfield Digest

22 ‘Cat Tracks

24 Alumni News

27 Class Notes

Features5 Taking hospice inside the walls

One professor’s quest to bring hospice to the prisons

8 Classroom on the coastLearning about Oregon’s rich ecological diversity

14 Balancing skills and creativityNils Lou on being creative in studio and classroom

15 Going above and beyond for LinfieldProfessor combines teaching, service and scholarship

16 A journey of a lifetimeA 1,000-kilometer pilgrimage is spiritual and emotional

20 50 years as ‘voice of the Wildcats’The faculty behind the football broadcasts

When Brett Elliott ’05 transferred to Linfield Collegeto finish his education and play football, little did he knowhis mom would soon follow in his footsteps.

But come Dec. 18, there will be two Elliotts receivingdegrees from Linfield, Brett with a bachelor’s of arts inmass communication and Leila ’05 with a bachelor’sof science in nursing.

Brett is one of Linfield’s most recognizable faces fol-lowing his record-breaking, award-winning season asquarterback of the championship Wildcat football team.Leila has had a much lower profile on the PortlandCampus, but is accomplished in her own right. When shewas accepted to the Linfield-Good Samaritan School ofNursing she already had an undergraduate degree inEnglish and a law degree. After her youngest childgraduated from high school last year, she knew sheneeded to change her focus. Since travel is her passion,nursing seemed like the perfect profession, one that wasportable, allowing her to both work and travel.

Plus, she added, she had a first-hand look at thenursing profession while raising her children.

“Brett and his brothers and sister ended up in thehospital a lot with sports injuries and after watching thenurses, I always thought it was just a great job,” she saidwith a smile.

Her education has been very intense. She began the17-month nursing program in June 2004 and has hadclasses straight through with the exception of a five-weekbreak this past summer.

“I’ve given up everything except being a student,” shesaid. “I don’t know how some people do it, the singlemothers or those with small children. Occasionally I’m amom, but rarely!”

Attending the same college, albeit on differentcampuses much to Brett’s relief, has strengthened the bondbetween mother and son.

“She’s realized how hard it is,” Brett said. “We’re bothbig-time procrastinators. I’ll call her up at midnight andask her to edit a paper and she’ll still be up working on hernursing stuff.”

Brett hopes to make the NFL draft next spring andplay professionally. When his football days are over, hehopes to become a sports broadcaster. He’s already hadextensive media experience, through interviews with theNew York Times, USA Today and others; writing for theLinfield Review; producing his own show on KSLC, thestudent radio station; and through an internship last sum-mer at 1080 The Fan in Portland.

Brett admits he is surprised at how excited and enthu-siastic his mother has become about nursing school.

“She is intelligent and passionate about the things sheloves, her family and obviously nursing school,” he said.“I thought she’d go for a couple of months and quit.”

Brett, Leila said, is someone she has watched developinto a leader. “He’s a good friend and he’s apparently quitechatty except when he’s around his mother,” she laughs.“While he can appear laid back, he’s not when it comes tothings he really cares about.”

Despite the intensity of her coursework, the onlyfootball game Leila missed last year was against theUniversity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The family haseight season tickets and those attending vary from game togame. Ten family members attended the Stagg Bowl inVirginia. Football and school will still be the focus this fallfor both mother and son, as the Wildcats defend theirnational championship.

After graduation, while Brett trains and waits for thedraft, Leila will travel to India with Professors Vivian Tongand Beverly Epeneter for the Health Care in India classduring January Term.

Then, once her husband retires in a few years, theyhope to travel extensively, spending several months at atime in different countries, which may allow her to puther nursing skills to work.

“I’d like to stay in a place for three or four monthsand get to know the people, rather than just be atourist,” she said.

— Mardi Mileham

College is family affair for Elliotts

Leila and Brett Elliott, both ’05, celebrate after a football game.

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Engaging students in educationIn education there are no short-

cuts. Virtual reality may provide asyn-chronous access to learning, butlearning itself takes place in real timeaccording to tried-and-true methodsof inquiry, dialogue, practice, mistakeand correction. In short, quality edu-cation engages students directly andintensively. Because Linfield recentlyparticipated for the first time inthe National Survey of StudentEngagement (NSSE), allow me toshare some early reflections on ourresults.

The 2004-05 NSSE was admin-istered to over 660,000 students at520 colleges and universities nation-wide. It was targeted at first-yearstudents and seniors. In Linfield’ssample, 289 first-year students and151 seniors responded. All datawere collected and processed byindependent survey administrators,then compared to national norms.

The report must be read withcaution, for effect size differenceswere small to moderate. With thisreservation in mind, Linfield studentsappear to be more engaged in tutor-ing or voluntarily teaching othersthan were respondents at our selectedprivate peer colleges and at otherbachelor-level colleges nationwide.In addition, Linfield students com-municated with their teachers moreby e-mail and talked more intensivelyabout career plans with their facultythan did peer students elsewhere.

With respect to the co-curricu-lum, Linfield students were morelikely to participate in physical fitnessactivities than either their selected ornational peers. The same holds forparticipating in campus organiza-tions, publications, student govern-ment, etc. Clearly, Linfield studentslearn and live in a communitysupportive of many good choices.

Most notably, Linfield stands outamong national baccalaureate col-

leges with respect to seniors whohave participated in study abroad.The college lives up in student wordas in institutional deed to our missionstatement’s clear commitment tohonor “… the rich texture of diversecultures and varied ways of under-standing.” We shall not slack in pro-moting this clear area of excellence atLinfield College.

What of the challenges posed bythe NSSE results? Happily, negativeeffect sizes are all small, save for onethat is moderate (as well as statisticallysignificant). The data suggest that ourstudents are less likely than studentsat selected peer private colleges toattend an art exhibit, dance or theatreperformance.

I relish the challenge of address-ing this result. The creation of theArts Quadrangle on the KeckCampus is helping us elevate theintellectual life of the campus. TheNicholson Library, coupled with theMarshall Theatre, the James F. Miller

Fine Arts Center and the new musicfacility now under construction, arehelping to bring the college togetherto fully appreciate our outstandingmusic, theatre and art programs, aswell as the wonderful readings spon-sored by the library.

A liberal arts education preparespeople to be flexible in mind, heartand soul, and become lifelong learn-ers in order to meet the challengesthey will face in the future. The artsand the library are at the center ofeducation. With our outstanding fac-ulty members and quality studentperformers in the arts, improving stu-dent attendance at such events beginswith spreading the word. I knowfrom firsthand experience that thearts are as lively at Linfield as our bet-ter-appreciated programs in interna-tional study. We will promote bothopportunities with equal vigor.

Marvin HenbergInterim President

Marvin Henberg, interim president, talks with, from left, Katie Dolph ’08 and Branden Sharp ’07 during the student activities fair held in conjunction with orientation.

Pamela Campbell, Tamara Sanden-Maurer andMelanie Schmid have three things in common.

They believe that no one deserves to die alone. Theyall want to be trained as hospice volunteers. And theyare all inmates in the medium security unit at theCoffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville.

Jan Selliken, associate professor of nursing at theLinfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing, hassomething in common with each of them – her goalto establish a hospice program in the Oregon prisonsystem.

“I could not believe that there were people dying inprison and there was no outside community support toassist with that,” said Selliken, who is a nurse educator,midwife, naturopathic physician and hospice nurse.“How can we think that anyone in prison is lessdeserving of hospice than someone on the outside?”

Hospice is common today, but up until 20 years agothere was little to help people prepare for dying.

“We had plenty to help people prepare for the birthprocess, but there was nothing to help people prepare fordeath,” she said. “As a society we deny death until it hits.”

Selliken already arranges clinical experiences forLinfield nursing students at Coffee Creek CorrectionalFacility and the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.She wants to go one step further. If she can secure grantfunding, she plans to train inmates to serve as hospicevolunteers in a program at Coffee Creek.

Tougher sentencing laws, mandatory minimum sen-tences and rules covering compassionate releases andparoles have resulted in an aging prison population,Selliken said. As a result, a growing number of inmateswill die behind prison walls.

When Sanden-Maurer was diagnosed with a rareform of cancer, she was not only terrified of dyingalone, she was terrified of dying alone in prison.

“You are in your room, isolated and alone, with noone to help you through those last stages of life,” saidSanden-Maurer, who is now in remission.

The need for a hospice program became clear toSanden-Maurer, Campbell and Schmid during theterminal illness and death of another inmate who madean indelible impact on each of them.

“Whether it’s in here or on the streets, dying is notan easy process,” Campbell said. “No one should have todie without people capable of supporting them. Weneed to help move people through the process in a waythat is dignified and respectful.”

More people in prison have long-term, chronic orterminal illnesses, Schmid said. Hospice is not only

important to the patient, it’s a chance to allow inmatesto do something good.

“It’s an opportunity for the provider to give somethingback, as well as provide something essential,” she added.

Involving students through clinicals and training canremove the stereotype of prison inmate.

“[The students] find out we have the same needs,”Campbell said. “We are mothers, daughters, sisters, auntsand grandmothers. All of that is really important forpeople to understand. We’ve made mistakes and we can’tgo back and change things, but we can make changesfrom this point forward.”

Selliken has produced a 16-minute video that illus-trates the need for a hospice program in the Oregonprison system. If she secures funding, she and Linfieldnursing students will train inmates and medical personnelon end-of-life care. The inmates will have the rare oppor-tunity to perform a service for another human being andgive something back to society, Selliken said.

“Regardless of whether it’s in prison or on the out-side, when you sit at the bedside of a dying person, youget a perspective of what’s really important,” she said.

— Mardi Mileham

Jan Selliken, left, and Kim Kaplin ’07, center, talk with, from left, TamaraSanden-Maurer, Melanie Schmid and Pam Campbell, inmates at the CoffeeCreek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. Selliken, associate professor of nursing, hopes to secure grant funding to train inmates to serve as hospicevolunteers in the prison.

Taking hospice inside the walls

A View from Melrose Faculty Profile

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Sixteen percent of the freshmen enrolling this fall have family members who have attended Linfield. Members of the 2005 Legacy class include front row, left toright, Spencer Dean, Lesley Bryant, Pedro Nuñez, Seneca Walton, Janelle Davis, Emma Kemp, Kristin Burke, Samantha Bartlett, Larissa Gerig, Catherine Dolsen,Anne Muehleck, Alicia Rojas, Anna Lehman, BrieAnn Brininstool; second row, Luke Rembold, Kimberly Malcom, Evan Hiles, Cody Standridge, Keldy Winters, KevinDuerr, Dustin Huffman, Dan Lever, Matt Garland, Caitlyn Nelson, Rebecca Crawley, Laura Johnson, Amie Lundquist, Laura Strahan, Rachel Logan; third row, RachelWarwick, Hannah Veley, Eric Blumenstein, Chris Rodgers, Tyler Morrill, Corey Proctor, Matt McCollum, Nick Elliott, Kenneth Miller, Todd Siler, Todd Peterson,Morgan St. Jean; fourth row, Chris Schuldt, Michael Holten, Travis Ward, Geoffrey Young, Chris Renfro, Joe Robinson.

Two Linfield College facultymembers are providing leadership forthe college this year.

Barbara Seidman has been namedinterim dean of faculty. ElizabethAtkinson is associate dean for curriculumand faculty development.

Seidman, professor of English andformer associate dean, replaces MarvinHenberg, who is serving as interim presi-dent this year. A member of the facultysince 1983, Seidman played a key role inplanning for the new library, serving asliaison with the planning committee forthe new facility. In addition to her facultyrole, she is also coordinator of the GenderStudies Program and is the internshipcoordinator for the Department ofEnglish. She served as associate dean offaculty from 1995 to 2001. Her dedica-tion and commitment to teaching isreflected in the fact that she was twicenamed the Edith Green DistinguishedProfessor, in 1988 and in 2001.

Atkinson, associate professor of chem-istry, has taught at Linfield since 1997. Shehas served as a Faculty Member for the21st Century with Project Kaleidoscope, a highly competitive leadership programsponsored by the National ScienceFoundation. She also brings to the roledistinguished past service as a memberand as chairperson of the FacultyDevelopment Committee.

Plenty of new faces – 654 to beexact – were seen, as some of thebest and brightest students ever toenroll arrived on the McMinnvilleand Portland Campuses for fallsemester.

At McMinnville, 488 studentsenrolled in the class of 2009. On thePortland Campus, 111 new studentsare majoring in nursing or healthsciences, with 40 more expected inthe spring.

On the McMinnville Campus,53 percent of the new class arewomen and 47 percent are men.Eleven percent are students of colorincluding international students.Students represent 273 high schoolsand have an average GPA of 3.61.Scores average 1143 for SAT and 24

for ACT. Thirty-two percent arefrom the top 10 percent of theirhigh school class.

Members of the new class havebeen involved in student government,music, theatre, art, communicationsand other high school activities.They are also active in communityservice projects such as NorthwestMedical Teams, Hospice, SpecialOlympics, UNICEF, Meals onWheels, Red Cross and Relay forLife, to name a few.

Many in the incoming classhave served in leadership roles.There are 29 valedictorians, 14 stu-dent body presidents, 65 newspapersor yearbook editors, 123 team cap-tains and 91 club officers. Sixteenpercent are legacy students who

have had a relative attend Linfield.On the Portland Campus,

incoming students have an averageGPA of 3.63 on prior college work.Sixteen percent of the new studentsare male, and 15 percent are studentsof color. Thirty-three percent of thetransfer students have a prior bache-lor’s degree and some have complet-ed degrees at the master’s level. Areasof study include psychology, exercisescience, business and biology.

Many of Portland’s incomingstudents are working in professionssuch as health care, business, tech-nology, research and education.Some have had the experience ofliving, working or studying inother countries and many are rais-ing families.

2005 Legacy students

Linfield enrolls students at near-record numbers

Faculty take on leadership roles

Linfield DigestLinfield Digest

Bob McCann learned a thing or two about Linfield College from hisstudents during a recent class project.

He found Riley Hall once housed a two-lane bowling alley and, near PioneerHall, there was a well with a hand pump and a metal cup for thirsty passers-by.

McCann, associate professor of education, and students in his Teaching SocialStudies class included these and other facts in a walking tour brochure of theLinfield campus. The pamphlet features 11 historic buildings and a map of the corecampus, along with a short college history. It’s designed for campus visitors, futurestudents and those already familiar with the campus who want to learn more.

McCann said the project shows education students that history can betaught through community resources.

“History is not just dates, facts and information,” he said. “History is aliveand embedded in buildings and places.”

In addition to learning more about Linfield, Erin Fleming ’06, whoresearched Riley Hall, said the experience strengthened her teaching skills.

“Part of being a teacher is putting together research, taking visualinformation and spicing it up,” she said.

Tour explores college history

Bob McCann, associate professor of education, shares some of Linfield’s colorful history as he leads agroup of students on a walking tour of campus. A new brochure provides a historical look at the college.

For the fifth consecutive year, Linfield College has been named the topcollege in the western region in the Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor’s cate-gory in rankings released by the magazine U.S. News & World Report.

Linfield had the highest average freshman retention rate (84 percent),highest average graduation rate (69 percent) and lowest student to faculty ratio(13/1) in the western region.

“It is a continuing compliment to our dedicated faculty and staff, to oursupportive local community, and to those who sustain the college throughprivate philanthropy for U.S. News & World Report to recognize Linfield as thetop comprehensive bachelor’s college in the West for the fifth consecutive year,”said Marvin Henberg, interim president.

Linfield again named top collegePresidential search continuesThe Presidential Search Committee

planned to bring candidates to Linfield in October for a series of meetings on the McMinnville and PortlandCampuses and with the local community.For updates on the progress of the presidential search go to:

www.linfield.edu/president_search/index.phpon thewebon theweb

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eaning over a tide pool in the depths ofDevil’s Punchbowl, Aubrey Clark ’05 nudges apurple creature clinging to the side of a water-

worn rock. Though her textbook describes the seaurchin as spiny and hard-shelled, Clark wants to seefor herself.

“It looked as if it would be soft to the touch, butquite the contrary,” she says. “It felt hard and strong,probably to fend off the bad guys.”

For Clark and other members of the summerShoreline Ecology class, discoveries are plentiful duringa five-day travel course on the Oregon Coast. Led byNed Knight, adjunct professor of biology and environ-mental studies, the class spent two days at LinfieldCollege before trekking to Newport to explore coastal

environments and the organisms that live there. Just two hours from McMinnville, Newport’s open-air

classrooms give students a chance to pull on their bootsand wade through coastal environments, sometimes forthe first time. Linfield’s strong emphasis on field study,coupled with Oregon’s rich ecological diversity, makestravel courses an unparalleled opportunity, according toKareen Sturgeon, professor of biology. She teachesClassification of Plants and Plant Communities andguides students from western to southeastern Oregon,tracing a route she likens to driving from the equator tothe arctic.

“We see vastly different ecosystems along the way,”she says. “There’s no substitute for engaging in a fieldexperience.”

Oregon’s shoreline provides a rich setting for ecological discovery

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n this particular July morning, thegroup rose before dawn to catch a rare minustide inside Devil’s Punchbowl, a giant cavern

near Newport’s Otter Rock. Normally churning withthousands of gallons of seawater and spouting spray highinto the air, at 6 a.m. on this day, it is drained.

The morning air is damp and cool as students clamberdown a winding path to the beach and punchbowlentrance. Inside, voices echo off cavern walls brushedred from spray zone algae. Looking up from thechamber floor, blue sky is framed by the bowl’s edge 40feet above.

Students step gingerly to avoid crushing marine lifeas they wander among tide pools jotting notes, takingmeasurements and sketching sightings in their fieldnotebooks. Some use colored pencils to bring theirdrawings to life.

“This guy looks like a wrinkled-up donut,” notesClark of an aggregated anemone, entering it in her fieldbook. Clark, who works in public affairs at Intel, is tak-ing the class as her final requirement to complete hermanagement degree through Linfield’s Division ofContinuing Education (see sidebar, below). It’s a fittingend to a fulfilling eight-year experience.

“I’ve seen places that I never knew existed in theNewport area and I can't wait to return with friendsand family to point out some of my new finds,” she said.“Being out of the classroom and actually doing and seeingwhat you are learning about is absolutely great.”

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Students probe tide pools inside the ocean-worn sandstone walls of Devil's Punchbowl near Otter Rock during the DCE Shoreline Ecology course in Newport.Cavern walls are tinged with red algae, which thrive on spray from the churning water.

After spotting an aggregated anemone clinging to the base of a rock, AubreyClark ’05 (left) and Kim Taylor ’07 record their discovery in field journals documenting the five-day class.

Ned Knight has led the Shoreline Ecology course for 10 years,incorporating concepts of ecology, geology and physical sciencewhile introducing students to the natural history of the coast.

DCE at a glance

The Adult Degree Program through the Divisionof Continuing Education is designed to help workingadults through traditional and online classes.

Students enrolled: 500+

Average years to degree: 2

Average student age: 37

Majors offered: 7 (accounting, arts and humanities,business information systems, international business, management, social and behavioral sciences, nursing)

DCE centers: 8 (Albany, Astoria, Bend, Coos Bay,Eugene, McMinnville, Portland and Salem)

Classroom on the coast

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species including chinook and coho salmon, cutthroattrout and a variety of marine fish.

After lunch, students continue their coastal explo-ration with tours of a U.S. Coast Guard station and theOregon Oyster Farm. Knight says the trip’s varied sitesprovide examples of how to exist cooperatively with theenvironment and repair damage from past indiscretions.

“It’s also important and enlightening to see the gen-uine enthusiasm of the people carrying out theseprojects,” he adds.

The class is but one of many that Linfield offerswhich are relevant to today’s environmental issues,according to Marvin Henberg, interim Linfield presi-dent. Henberg was instrumental in designing Linfield’senvironmental studies major and he continues to toutenvironmental education.

“This program brings together traditional and adultstudents, helping them to better understand the intrica-cies of the environment, whether on the coast, in thevalley or in the mountains,” Henberg says. “The 21stcentury is the century of the environment.”

Mary Sue Reynolds ’07 of SweetHome has a new awareness of the envi-ronment and hands-on learning aftertaking the Shoreline Ecology course.

“You learn from the speakers who livein the area and deal with the subjects dayin and day out,” says Reynolds, a coordinatorat the Linn Benton Community CollegeSweet Home Center. In addition to takingcourses on location, Reynolds has enrolledin other Linfield classes online as she pur-sues her bachelor’s in management. She saysthe flexibility is a lifesaver.

“I can work on my classes at midnightif I want,” she explains.

At the end of the week, Knight hopesstudents come away with an appreciation for the diversityand fragility of coastal life, and also for efforts in preserva-tion and habitat improvement. That message hit homewith Jonathan Stanfill ’06 of Lincoln City, for one.

“We are all important parts of an ecosystem and asa human being I have a stewardship role to fulfill,” saysStanfill, who will earn a management degree nextspring and plans to pursue graduate studies after that.The travel classes have been some of his favorites.

“Going out and researching the material on loca-tion gave it more depth,” he continues. “To accuratelyunderstand shoreline ecology, you have to experience itfirsthand as an explorer.”

— Laura Davis

Alumni can receive a 20 percent discount on tuition for one Linfield Division of Continuing Education courseeach year through the Return to Learn program. For more information contact DCE at 1-800-452-4176 orhttp://www.linfield.edu/dce/.

Knight wanders among the students, checking ongroups, answering questions and making discoveries ofhis own. Though it’s his 10th year leading the class,he beams after spotting a school of shiner perch in atide pool.

“I’ve never seen them here before,” he says with agrin. “I never get tired of coming to these sites. I learnsomething new each time.”

Knight’s enthusiasm is contagious. He says there is aworld of difference between a classroom in MurdockHall and a classroom in Devil’s Punchbowl.

“Everybody loves being outside,” adds Knight, whohas taught at Linfield since 1992. “And you learn somuch more by seeing, touching and feeling everythingthan you can seeing it written on a blackboard.”

Many students, like Candace Keillor ’06 ofMcMinnville who is studying to be a teacher, broughtfriends or family members along to explore the coastwith them.

“They’re surfing while I’m looking at slimy stuff,”she says, using a pink hand trowel to scoop up a specimenfor a closer look.

s the tide begins to inch back in, Knightleads students a few miles up the coast to thenext site – the Siletz Bay National Wildlife

Refuge. There, hosted by Fred Seavey, United States Fishand Wildlife Service biologist, students slosh throughmarshy terrain to the slough’s edge to examine therebirth of a wetland. Caught in the mud’s suction, somestudents find themselves bootless during the hike.

Three years ago, when Knight first brought Linfieldstudents to the site, giant manmade dikes separated thebay from what was then farmland. The 100-acre pre-serve has since been restored to a natural estuary, a bodyof water between the bay and the river where habitatadjust to the change between salt and fresh water.Seavey’s team, along with biologists from theConfederated Tribes of Siletz, is using underwater videocameras at four elevations to monitor juvenile salmonuse of the habitat and tidal channels. They've found thesalt water is changing the vegetation in and around theestuary communities.

“This is very gratifying to see the project has beensuccessful,” Seavey says. The area is now available to

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2006 DCE summer travel courses

Tropical Reef and Rainforest, Australia

Shakespeare in Ashland, Ashland

Shoreline Ecology, Newport

Sailing, Columbia River, Cascade Locks

Fire History of the Cascades, Jefferson Wilderness Area

Native North Americans, Columbia Gorge andVancouver Island

Students help each other through marshy terrain during a hike to view an estuary restoration project at the Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

Bailey Pridgeon (left) and Kathryn Adams ‘07 use a field guide to identify an ocean plant.Kathryn Adams ’07 sketches in her field book at the Siletz Bay NationalWildlife Refuge.

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An event that changed the lives of four women 30years ago in war-torn Vietnam came full circle this springon Linfield College’s Portland Campus.

Joyce Harrington ’08 was a young nurse on a flight torescue 409 Vietnamese orphans from Saigon on April 5,1975. Also on board that plane was 8-month-old NguyenThi-Ly, soon to become Elizabeth Wheeler, daughter ofPamela Wheeler, associate professor of nursing at theLinfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing. PamWheeler is now Harrington’s advisor.

Joyce Harrington was 23 and working at the HongKong Adventist Hospital School of Nursing in Tsuen Wanwhen she was asked to serve as an escort for a planeloadof Vietnamese orphans headed to the U.S. for adoptionthrough Holt International Children’s Services. She wasone of 10 volunteers including one doctor and eight nurs-es and a crew of nine stewardesses to care for over 400children – 300 of them under the age of 18 months. A

steady stream of babies were loaded, some even handedover by their mothers. Many were ill, some from heat rash,some due to the change in food and others with far moreserious illnesses. They were crammed into every availablespace on a Pan Am 747 that had been filled with diapers,bassinettes, bottles and formulas.

“None of us got any sleep during the 30-hour flightto Seattle,” Harrington remembers. “We had to keep ourwatches set to Saigon time to ensure maintaining medica-tion and feeding schedules. When I would start to nod offwhile feeding a baby, someone else would remind methere were more who needed attention.

“I can’t begin to describe how it feels to look back onwhat seemed, at the time, to be a brief side trip and get aglimpse of the bigger picture from many different angles:the adoptees, the adoptive parents and other volunteers onthe babylift.”

Pam Wheeler and her husband already had onebirth child when they decided they would completetheir family through adoption. They had been acceptedby Holt and were expecting their daughter to arrivefrom Vietnam in June. But as the war escalated and thefall of Saigon became imminent, their concern height-ened. When the first of the babylift charters crashed inSaigon, they were among other frantic parents callingHolt. They finally received word on Wheeler’s birthdaythat Elizabeth was arriving that Sunday at O’HareInternational in Chicago via Seattle.

“We thought she was the most gorgeous thing ever,”Wheeler said. “She was like a little doll because she was 8months old, but weighed less than 12 pounds.”

Although she was severely malnourished, Elizabeth hadno lingering health problems. “She’s what I call a survivor,”Wheeler says of Elizabeth today, who works in a lab for theAmerican Red Cross. “She was a tough little girl.”

While talking with Harrington last spring about herexperiences, Wheeler realized that she could have been onthe same plane as Beth.

“Joyce showed me some photos and there is a photothat looks like Beth,” Wheeler said. “It’s just the smallestworld.”

Becky Boehne, associateprofessor of nursing, alsoplayed a small role in whatwas known as OperationBabylift.

Boehne had no directconnection with ElizabethWheeler, but she did spendMay 5, 1975, at Fort Lewisnear Tacoma, Wash., caring forVietnamese orphans. The

children were among the last to be evacuated and werelater flown to France for adoption. Boehne, then a seniornursing student at Pacific Lutheran University, found her-self in charge of all operations for some 100 children. Sheadministered medications while volunteers were assignedas caregivers, changing diapers, feeding and playing withthe children.

“It was chaos,” Boehne remembers. “I couldn’t figureout what meds were supposed to go to what children, soI tried to create medication records so they would havesome kind of record and some consistency.”

Even though she had just a small role in the entire air-lift, taking care of those children was really an experience ofa lifetime, Boehne said. “I sometimes wonder whatever hap-pened to those kids, or this one little child named Dubec.My part was just a little snippet, just an eight- or nine-hourday. But I hoped I helped those kids in some small way.”

— Mardi Mileham

Babylift is pivotal moment in four lives

Joyce Harrington ‘08 with one of the 409 Vietnamese orphans on a plane outof Saigon on April 5, 1975.

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With 409 orphans on board, the children and babies were strapped intoseats, bassinets and every available space on board the Pan Am flight.

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Becky Boehne, circa 1975

30 years later, Elizabeth Wheeler, center, is a young married woman who works in a laboratory for the American Red Cross. Thosewho helped in getting her safely to the U.S. were, from left, Joyce Harrington ‘08, and Pam Wheeler, her mother. Although BeckyBoehne wasn't involved in Elizabeth's flight, she did assist with one of the last babylift flights out of Vietnam.

30 years later, Elizabeth Wheeler, center, is a young married woman who works in a laboratory for the American Red Cross. Thosewho helped in getting her safely to the U.S. were, from left, Joyce Harrington ‘08, and Pam Wheeler, her mother. Although BeckyBoehne wasn't involved in Elizabeth's flight, she did assist with one of the last babylift flights out of Vietnam.

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Balancing skills and creativity

Nils Lou may be an art professor, but he claims hedoesn’t teach art.

He says he is more of a gardener in his LinfieldCollege studio classroom. He does some weeding, adds alittle fertilizer and then watches with amazement at whathis students grow.

“Being creative is about surprising yourself,” Lou said.“It’s about being playful, and taking internal risks. Teaching isabout creating a space for the students where they basicallylearn by themselves. I tell my students two things: ‘This is aclass about failing because when you take a risk and you fail,you are more likely to analyze what went wrong than if youhad been successful. The other thing I want you to realize isthat I’m being paid to teach, but it’s the last thing I dobecause I can’t teach you. It’s impossible.’”

Lou is anything but a fraud. A professor of art atLinfield since 1987, he has been a working artist for morethan 50 years, constantly stretching himself and exploringnew techniques and avenues of creativity. His work can befound in over 30 public and institutional collections aswell as private collections. He is the author of dozens ofpublications, including The Art of Firing, a ceramics booknow in its fourth edition. He has mounted numerousexhibitions, including six in 2004 alone. Over 20 yearsago, he and two other artists built a replica of an authentic8th century Korean anagama, a single chambered, woodfired pottery kiln, which is still used today. To add to his

achievements, he was named this year’s Edith GreenDistinguished Professor for his strong commitment to theeducation of his students.

Although Lou teaches primarily in ceramics andthree-dimensional design, he is also a sculptor and painter.His latest collaborations are with Wisconsin artist KarenTerpstra, in which they combine the female figure and thehorse in ceramics, paintings, drawings and large sculpture.

After completing his bachelor’s and master’s atUniversity of Michigan, Lou taught at Hamline Universityin Minnesota from 1961 to 1970 and then worked as a stu-dio potter full-time, first in Minnesota and later in ruralWillamina. When a full-time teaching position opened atLinfield in 1987, he was eager to get back into the classroom.

“I always liked connecting with the students,” Lousaid. “When you are a studio potter, it really limits yourcreativity because you start thinking about product insteadof process.”

Lou firmly believes that art cannot be taught. “We cer-tainly have composition rules and processes we discuss withstudents. We can talk about balance, we can talk about light,dark, texture and all kinds of things. But they are onlyuseful when they are handled in some unique way.”

Teaching art is a balance between building foundation-al skills and pushing students to create authentic art vs.ordinary art.

“Ordinary art is the art of imitation, with a product inmind,” Lou said. “The authentic is something that comesfrom inside and it develops because there is attention toprocess. The medium speaks, the clay speaks, the paintspeaks. It says choose me. And what happens is somethingfresh, new, innovative and original. I want students torecognize the difference.”

Lou can easily document his growth and develop-ment as an artist over the past 50 years. His art most oftenchanges as he seeks the elusive power of connecting withanother person.

“When you make something authentic, it has thepower to connect in this quantum way to another person,to their consciousness. If it is powerful enough, they reelin the impact of it because it connects, it evokes memory,it evokes something inside them. It's not necessarily whyartists make art, but it is one of the reasons. The other isthat we are fundamentally makers of things. We like toassemble, we like to organize and we like to put thingstogether. That’s what composition is, there is a rightness toits organization.”

– Mardi Mileham

Nils Lou offers some advice to Molly Miller ‘07 during a class in the James F. MillerFine Arts Center.

Going above and beyond for LinfieldFor Brenda DeVore Marshall, life in the theatre began

as a blue forget-me-not.She was six and sang in the class operetta. “My debut!”

she said.It was a sign of things to come. Marshall, professor

of theatre and communication arts, has spent a good partof her life in the theatre. This fall, she begins her 13thyear as department chair, first for the Department ofCommunication and now for the Department ofTheatre and Communication Arts. For her service toLinfield, she earned this year’s Samuel I. Graf FacultyAchievement Award, given each year to a faculty mem-ber who has performed some outstanding achievementbeyond his or her regular duties.

Marshall is well-rounded and excels in the three mainroles the college expects of its faculty: teaching, serviceand scholarship, according to Marvin Henberg, Linfieldinterim president.

“She’s gone above and beyond the call of duty inevery aspect of her career,” Henberg said.

Since joining the faculty in 1987, Brenda and herhusband, Ty, professor of theatre arts, have been instru-mental in shaping the Linfield theatre program. Not onlyhas she helped to develop the department’s curriculum,she played a leading role in the design of Ford Hall andMarshall Theatre, from planning through opening.

But her impact is not just limited to the theatre. Shedirected the forensics program for 14 years, developed thecommunication arts minor, provided leadership in thedevelopment of new majors in communication arts andintercultural communication, managed the speakingcenter, became the first woman to serve as chair of thecollege’s Faculty Executive Council and served as Title IXofficer and chair of the Experiential Learning Task Force. She is also an accomplished author, co-editing withMolly Mayhead Navigating Boundaries, The Rhetoric ofWomen Governors (2000) and co-authoring Women’sPolitical Discourse: A Twenty-first Century Perspective, whichwill be out this fall. They are now working on a thirdbook, Women’s Political Autobiography as Historical Narrativeand Political Inspiration.

The secret to Marshall's accomplishment? Long days,usually 12 to 18 hours, and an intense work ethic instilledby her parents. But curiosity may be her driving force.

“I have very eclectic interests,” said Marshall, whoplays bassoon and enjoys exploring ideas in the sciencesand social sciences in addition to the arts. “My involve-ment in various activities occurs because I’m genuinelyinterested in them.”

Of all the hats she wears, teaching continues to be herfavorite. Marshall encourages active involvement in theclassroom and urges students to try new things withoutfear of failure.

“The day I stop being excited about learning I shouldquit teaching,” said Marshall, who was named the EdithGreen professor in 1992. “I see learning as a real adventurein which I become the guide for the students. I map outa path and we start down it. We always get to the place Iintend, but we sometimes take different routes.”

In 1999, Marshall, along with other women facultymembers, helped establish the gender studies minor andcontinues to team teach the capstone course with BarbaraSeidman, professor of English and interim dean of faculty.As her work in the feminist arena progresses, Marshall saidshe’s learned the importance for women to make theirvoices heard and for men to see females who can lead andexpress themselves.

“I hope I have been a mentor to students and haveillustrated some of the ways one’s voice, male or female,can be heard,” she said. “It’s hard to tell students theyshould be involved if you’re not involved. That’s why I dowhat I do.”

– Laura Davis

Brenda DeVore Marshall (right), shown here with Katie Dolph ’08 in the FordHall design lab, earned the Samuel I. Graf Faculty Achievement Award for herdedication to Linfield.

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A journey ofa lifetime

Juan Manuel Gómez is a truepilgrim.

On a recent journey, hetraced the footsteps of thousandsbefore him dating back to the 9thcentury. He covered 1,000 kilo-meters from Seville to Santiagode Compostela, Spain, over 43days, with nothing but a backpackand sleeping bag. While his questwas not religious, it was spiritualand emotional. He deepened hisknowledge of Spanish history,art, architecture and culture. Helearned to rely on the kindness ofstrangers and to take one day at atime. His journey was a pivotalmoment in his life.

According to Dante, thereare three types of pilgrims: the “palmieri,” those who goto Jerusalem; the “romei,” those who visit Rome; andthe “peregrini,” those who have been to the sepulchre ofSt. James in Galicia, Spain. They, like James, are true pil-grims because they are away from their homeland, visitingthe grave of one who rests outside his homeland. James,the apostle who preached in Galicia, was beheaded inPalestine, but his body, placed in a boat by his disciplesarrived pilgrim-like on Spain’s Northwest Coast.Beginning in the 9th century, his tomb became a place forpilgrimage and the cathedral erected on that spot has beenvisited by millions throughout the centuries.

As an associate professor of Spanish at Linfield, Gómezteaches not only language, but also the history, culture andliterature of Spain. His interest in the pilgrimage wassparked during his first sabbatical while researching theMuslim influence on Spain's history and culture. Hebecame intrigued by the references to St. James (Santiagoin Spanish), the patron saint of Spain, who, according tolegend, was instrumental in helping the Spanish finallydefeat the Moors in the 15th century.

Although several paths lead pilgrims to Santiago deCompostela, Gómez chose the lesser known route stretch-

ing from Seville in southern Spain. Because he traveledduring February and March, solitude was his companionfor a large part of the journey. He was alone on the trailfor the first 21 days, often encountering no one betweenstops. Of those he did meet, most were Spanish, althoughat various times he walked with pilgrims from France,Switzerland and Germany.

“Most of the people who travel are not religious,”Gómez said. “They do it mostly for the experience of thejourney, the history, the art or the culture.”

Gómez walked across the wide plains of southernSpain, over low hills and a high plateau. He traveledthrough hills covered with heather and into an area thatresembles Northwest Oregon. He walked through grovesof chestnut trees and centuries-old vineyards. The farthernorth he traveled, the less solitary the land became. Housesand villages were more numerous and he encounteredmore people who were eager to talk, to learn where hewas from, and perhaps to exchange a little gossip.

He learned quickly that a walking stick was essential.“Sometimes you are on a trail that is narrow and

climbing and you need it for support,” he said. “You alsoneed it to keep away dogs. One time, a dog came after meand if I had not had the stick, I would have been bitten.”

He not only encountered an occasional hostile dog,but also pigs, usually restrained, and cattle, which occa-sionally were not. At least twice, he opted to jump a fencerather than confront threatening bulls.

He had ample time for his thoughts. “I thought of home and why I was doing this,” he

said. “I am spiritual and religious and believe in the inter-

cession of saints, but I was not going to Santiago in searchof a miracle.”

Whenever Gómez became lost or uncertain, someonewas always there to help. At a roundabout, when hecouldn’t figure out what direction to take, a gentlemanstopped to give him directions. In Salamanca, when hehad no idea how to find the local inn for pilgrims, awoman stopped him and his companions, asked if theywere pilgrims and gave them the number to call.A restau-rant owner fed them and refused to take their money.

“This is something special,” Gómez said. “You alwaysfind the people at the right time. And that’s one of thosethings you cannot overlook. The other thing is that peo-ple treat you very well, whether in a small town or a met-ropolitan area. You have those experiences and you think‘this will never happen again.’ But it does.”

Gómez was surprised at the intensity of his emotionwhen he reached the end of his journey. At the cathedralin Santiago, he walked through the stunning Gate ofGloria portico, and touched the Tree of Jesse, where the

Juan Manuel Gómez climbing a steep portion of the trail he followed. Someparts were rugged, with severe inclines and fences or trees blocking the way.

One of the many statues of St. Jamesthat Juan Manuel Gómez encounteredon his journey.

The road built by the Romans is still visible and often the trail follows it. There are a number of Romanbridges still in use throughout the country.

The cathedral at Santiago de Compostela.

Markers along the trailin Galicia mark thedirection to the jour-ney's end. Galicia is theprovince in which St.James is said to havepreached before hereturned to Jerusalemand was martyred.

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Rebuilding an impoverished regionWhen Mujib Kamawal’s

family fled to Pakistanfrom their nat iveAfghanistan, they left alush, vibrant region. Whenthey returned for a visityears later, the Kama dis-trict was a wasteland. Theyknew they had to help.

Mujib ’06, now aLinfield chemistry major,was born three years afterhis family escaped theatrocities and killings ofthe Soviet invasion in1981. In 1985 when he

was a year old, his family moved to Portland, where hisparents still live.

But the Kamawals could not forget the people oftheir homeland. When he returned to Afghanistan in1996 and 2001, Mujib’s father, Jamil, was shocked by thedevastation. The land was barren. Only poverty andilliteracy flourished.

“I had this vision that I wanted to see, that I could helpour people in a constructive way,” Jamil Kamawal said.

With modest personal resources, Kamawal, a landsurveyor for Washington County, established the non-profit Kama Relief Corp. in 2001. Education is its pri-mary mission.

“Our goal is to provide an education to every childthere,” Kamawal said.

The organization has established three schools andsponsors activities at three others, as well as some adultclasses at a community center.

Kama Relief also runs a food-distribution programthat has helped about 90 needy families, includingwidows, orphans and people with disabilities, Kamawalsaid.A small stipend is paid to families who take in orphans,to eliminate the need for building orphanages, he added.

Kamawal also is trying to establish a health clinic inthe Kama district, whose residents cannot even affordtransportation to medical care. “The roads have beenheavily damaged, so it can take two hours or longer totravel 20 or 30 miles,” he said.

Kamawal and his wife, Mahbooba, visit Afghanistanannually at their own expense. He is proud that the tax-exempt organization runs on a lean budget with littlespent on administration. Kamawal said its annual budgethas ranged from about $20,000 to $40,000. Most of the

money, he said, comes from donations collected inPortland’s Muslim community during Ramadan obser-vances.

Mujib, along with his four brothers and his sister, hasvisited the Kama district and assists with the relief efforts.He designed Kama Relief ’s Website and helps with fund-raising.

In January, Mujib visited Afghanistan to witness theresults of those efforts. He saw a new schoolhouse nearingcompletion and “moved a lot of rocks,” filling a floor thatwould later have cement poured over it. He also helpeddistribute food.

“It’s really a horrible situation,” said Mujib, who hadnot been there since age 11. “There’s no clean water, anda lot of people don’t have enough food. It hurts to see allthose people – little kids who don’t have enough to eat ordrink. We do what we can and hope it’s enough. Usually,it’s not.”

Mujib is applying to medical schools and hopes tobecome a surgeon or a pediatrician. But he also wants toremain active in Kama Relief. “I definitely want to be anintegral part of it as I grow older,” he said. “I hope to getinvolved more and more.”

For more information on Kama Relief, visitwww.kamarelief.org.

— Beth Rogers Thompson

Jamil Kamawal speaks to local residents before distributing food. He is in front of thecommunity center his family's non-profit organization helped build in the district inwhich he was raised and from which he fled in 1981.

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hands of millions before have left their prints. He tappedthe forehead of Maestro Mateo, the builder of the gate. Hewalked to the altar of St. James, under which lies the saint’stomb, and gave thanks for all who had helped him on hisjourney – those who gave directions, provided food andhousing and offered friendship to a stranger. He placedhis hand on the statue of St. James, marking the endof his journey. Twice he was nearly overcome withemotion – when he received his certificate, recording thecompletion of his pilgrimage, and when they announcedit at mass the following day.

All along his journey, he encountered statues of St.James, always dressed as a pilgram, and examples of theinfluence the pilgrims have had on the history and cultureof Spain.

“Santiago is a place where so many events have takenplace,” Gómez said. “This is a place that has linked Europewith Spain. Santiago has been, in a sense, a meeting of

cultures, where you see the Romanesque, the Gothic, theMuslim influences. Spain received this influx of art,writing and music because of this intercourse of culture.”

Since his return, Gómez has continued his researchinto how the figure of St. James is used as a conqueror, anintercessor in battles. Much of what he has seen andlearned, including some 2,000 digital images, is bringinghistory and culture to life in his classes. His life is richer forhaving had the experience.

“I was 60 years old and I had never walked 20 kilo-meters in one day, or maybe in my entire life,” he said witha laugh. “I walk a mile every day, but that’s with my dog.But 20 or 40 kilometers a day for 39 days? I just feel thatI’ve done something for myself that will stay with me forthe rest of my life. I have accomplished many things in mylife, but this is one of those main pivotal events.”

— Mardi Mileham

Mujib Kamawal ‘06, left, with one ofthe many cousins he visited inAfghanistan in January.

A pilgrim touches the Treeof Jesse at the Cathedral in Santiago. The pillar isworn from the touch of the millions who havemade the pilgrimage from across Europe andaround the world.

A fortress, built to defend the town of El Real de la Jara, near Seville, against the frequent Portuguese attacks.

A self portrait of Juan ManuelGómez. Although the weatherwas unusually dry, there is snowin the background. He had onlytwo days of snow during hisentire 43-day journey.

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Student Profile

Wildcat football fans are familiarwith The Streak – 49 consecutivewinning seasons.

But they may not be familiarwith another football streak – for mostof the last 50 years, Linfield facultymembers have served as the “voice ofthe Wildcats.” Craig Singletary,professor emeritus of communica-tion, began broadcasting for the localcommercial radio station in 1956, theyear The Streak began. Ted Desel ’61,professor of speech and drama from1970 to 1987, broadcast the gameson KSLC, the student radio station,for a few years. Hansen, vice presi-dent for student affairs, dean of stu-dents and professor of economicsduring the week, has spent his fallweekends as the voice of the Wildcatsfor somewhere around 30 years.

Although Singletary wasn’t atLinfield when he began broadcastingWildcat games, he left the radio sta-tion in 1960 to accept a faculty posi-tion at Linfield, but continued tobroadcast the games until 1965. Hisvoice can still be heard during homegames. Since the mid-1970s he hasserved as the public address announc-er at all home games.

One of Singletary’s most vividmemories is a 1964 playoff gameagainst Concordia on a bitterly coldday in Fargo, N.D. Singletary, whowas broadcasting from a toasty warmpress box, had scheduled one inter-view at halftime with LinfieldPresident Harry Dillin. But digni-taries, including the governor ofMinnesota, head of NAIA and presi-dent of Concordia College, allflocked into the press box to getwarm, so Singletary interviewedthem all. Another interesting factfrom that game: Former Linfieldhead coach Ed Langsdorf played thatday for Concordia.

Desel did some color and play-by-play for KSLC, primarily duringthe Ad Rutschman ’54 era.

“My career was very short lived,probably with good reason,” he saidwith a laugh. But that didn't end hisaffiliation with the football team.From 1975 until Rutschman retiredin 1991, Desel drove the team bus tonearly all the road games.

“I got to see a lot of Linfieldfootball,” he added. “There were a lotof interesting experiences being withthe team like that over the years.”

Hansen says if he were notbroadcasting the Linfield Wildcatsgames, he’d probably be providingcommentary in the stands, much to

the entertainment – or chagrin – ofhis fellow fans.

Hansen’s career in the broadcastbooth had a dubious start when heteamed up with Desel for a half-timeshow.

“We didn’t have anything to talkabout so we described a half-timeextravaganza out on the field, with amarching band that spelled outLinfield in script and the landing of ahot air balloon,” Hansen recalls.None of it was actually taking placeanywhere but in their imaginations.

An admitted sports fanatic,Hansen is up at 6 a.m. or earlier onfall Saturdays to head to Ashland orTacoma or Spokane, whether he is

broadcasting the game or not. “Thisgets me there at someone else’sexpense, takes care of my transporta-tion, and occasionally I get a mealout of it,” he laughs. “I enjoy watch-ing the game and being a part of itin the sense that I get to talk aboutit. My wife worries that I do play-by-play at everything we attend,whether it’s athletics or not.”

Hansen, who will be inductedinto the Linfield Athletic Hall ofFame in November for his work asvoice of the Wildcats, started as colorcommentator and switched to play-by-play. After taking a four-yearbreak in the mid- to late-’90s, hereturned to color commentary withveteran broadcaster Darrell Aune.

One bonus of his job is gettingto know players in the classroomand on the playing field. His posi-tion at Linfield gives him an edge

on providing information to thelisteners.

“I might have some inside infor-mation about a player outside thefootball realm,” he said. “I have anopportunity to mix with the studentsin a different setting.”

He began collecting material forthis season right after the 2004 cham-pionship game. His preparationincludes taking the roster to bed andseeing how far down he can nameplayer, position, number and home-town without looking.

His memories of his years in thebooth are both funny and poignant.There was the time he had to rent aroom for just a few hours inBellingham, Wash., in order to find aphone line over which to broadcast.Or the time at Menlo when he andAune had to string about 500 feet oftelephone line from Menlo’s brand

new football stadium to a residencehall because Menlo officials had neg-lected to install phone lines. Or thetime, when broadcasting a basketballgame, the radio station sent a taxiacross McMinnville to inform himthat the line had been pulled andHansen had been broadcasting to noone for 20 minutes.

But the constant throughoutHansen’s broadcasting career – inaddition to The Streak – has beenthe strong tradition of the footballprogram.

“The coaching focus of usingthe football field as a classroomexperience for the students hasremained fairly constant,” he said.“I think success breeds success and Ithink that accounts for how well wedo here.”

— Mardi Mileham

50 years as ‘voice of the Wildcats’

Craig Singletary, Dave Hansen and Ted Desel ‘61, from left, all current or former faculty members, haveserved as the voice of the Wildcats over the last 50 years. Hansen has the longest tenure, starting “some-time in the early ‘70s” and continuing today.

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Four coaches, four national championships, 382wins and thousands of dedicated young athletes.

It’s been a recipe for success for Linfield Collegefootball for 49 years. Since 1956, Linfield has pro-duced winning football teams, fielding squads withbetter-than-.500 records and doing so without thebenefit of scholarships, letters of intent or springpractice. And with one more winning season, it willbe the program’s 50th in a row. The Wildcats couldsecure the season as early as Oct. 15 when they takeon Southern Oregon University.

The Wildcats stand alone as the most consistentlysuccessful college football program in the country.Linfield established itself as college football’s all-timeleader in consecutive winning seasons in 1998,coming from behind to defeat Willamette University20-19 and clinching a 43rd straight winning season

to move ahead of Harvard and Notre Dame.Four coaches have widened The Streak, including

Paul Durham ’36, Ad Rutschman ’54, Ed Langsdorfand Jay Locey, who was one year old when the 1956Wildcats launched the series. Since then, Linfield hascaptured four national championships, in 1982, 1984,1986 and 2004.

The secrets of the program’s success? Quite sim-ply, it’s the stability of the coaching staff, a dauntingwork ethic and a long-standing commitment tomake everyone associated with the program a betterperson.

The winning seems to take care of itself. For updates, go to

“The Streak” closes in on golden anniversary

www.linfield.edu/sportson thewebon theweb

Susan O’Meara ’08, women’sbasketball and statistician forbaseball, soccer and volleyball

Hometown: Sonoma, Calif.

Major: Exercise Science

Being an athlete at Linfield,“In college you have to studyway more but the time man-agement skills I learn as an ath-

lete help me be successful. Even though practices are moreintense than high school and I have to focus on school aswell, I enjoy it. I am a more effective person if I have lotsof things to do.”

Being an athletic statistician, “I became a statisti-cian after a teammate asked me to fill in and then theathletic department needed a statistician for the base-ball season. It was all about knowing the right people.I also had experience from high school when I wasthe statistician for my brother’s sports teams. I enjoythe job because it gives me the opportunity to watchall of the other sports.”

Chose Linfield because, “I knew I wanted asmall school with a strong program in my intended

major. Even though I am from California, all thesmall schools are in the Los Angeles area and thatwas not where I wanted to be. I also looked at big-ger California schools and they were just not right.But when I walked on campus at Linfield I felt,‘This is it.’”

Studying exercise science, “Since seventh grade Ihave had a trapped nerve in my knee. Over the yearsit has been misdiagnosed and I have tried every treat-ment for it. I soon found that physical therapy wasthe only thing that helped. This combined with myinterest in the human body attracted me to physicaltherapy.”

Favorite Professor: Laura Kenow (human health andperformance). “I took the class Prevention andTreatment of Athletic Injuries with Laura Kenow and Ienjoyed it. I found that the class related to me as an ath-lete but I also found it interesting because of what I amstudying. She was an energetic professor, which broughtme into the subject even more.”

Plans after graduation, “I want to go into physicaltherapy, which would require graduate school. But Ihave also thought about becoming a sports trainer for ahigh school team or going into coaching.”

The Linfield College Athletics Hall of Fame willinduct eight individuals, a national championship relaysquad, and the first football team to compete in thenational playoffs at the eighth annual ceremony, Saturday,Nov. 5, at Linfield. The banquet will follow an alumni-junior varsity football game slated for 1 p.m.

Athletes being inducted include Steve Lopes ’84, aformer All-American offensive tackle and member of twoNAIA national championship football teams; Ed Kama’81, a three-time all-conference offensive tackle and firstteam NAIA All-American in 1980; Lisa (Lind) Prevedello’89, a Northwest Conference champion in three eventsand current Linfield record holder in the high jump; JoeRobillard ’69, a four-year all-conference defensive backwho ranks second on Linfield’s career interceptions list;Cliff Saxton ’52, a four-year starter on both offense anddefense and a NAIA All-American for Hall of Fame foot-ball coach Paul Durham ’36; Alan Schmidlin ’80, a first

team NAIA All-America quarterback who passed formore than 5,000 career yards; and Keith Lazell, StewartMinors, Carl Shaw and Randy Carter, all Class of ’76 andmembers of Linfield’s NAIA national championship4x400 yard relay squad. The quartet continues to holdLinfield and Northwest Conference records in the milerelay.

Linfield’s 1961 Camellia Bowl football team, whichplayed for the NAIA national championship and was thefirst Linfield squad to compete in the national playoffs, isalso being enshrined.

Earning induction into the Linfield Athletics Hall ofFame for meritorious service are Dave Hansen, theWildcats’ football and basketball radio announcer forabout 30 years and current vice president for student serv-ices and dean of students, and longtime Linfield supporterDel Smith, trustee of the college and owner of EvergreenAviation.

Eight athletes, one team to be inducted into Hall of Fame

Learning time management: Susan O’Meara

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As the pen touched the paper TommyPaterson ’05 felt his life change.

Years of hard work and a life-longdream were summed up in the contractbefore him. In early June, Paterson signed asa professional free agent with thePhiladelphia Phillies. Hours later he was onhis way to Clearwater, Fla.

“I signed my contract at 10 p.m. on aTuesday night,” said Paterson, who earned a bachelor’sdegree in finance. “I had to be on a flight at 6 a.m. thenext morning.”

Paterson honed his baseball skills at Linfield wherehe was named first team All-American by the AmericanBaseball Coaches Association. He hit a career .367 andranks fourth on Linfield’s all-time list for runs batted,117, and bases stolen, 38.

“Tommy was the model player at Linfield,” saidScott Carnahan ’73, head Linfield baseball coach andathletic director. “He had a strong commitment toimprovement and was the type of player that would bethe first one to practice and the last one to leave thefield.”

Once in Florida, Paterson spent three months livingand breathing baseball. He played for the Gulf CoastLeague Phillies, a short-season team to introduce first-year players to professional baseball. His day began at 6a.m. with team practice, a game at noon and an after-noon workout lasting until 5.

Although the schedule and 110 degree heat indexwas a difficult adjustment, it was the business side ofprofessional baseball that surprised Paterson the most.He signed a baseball card contract, in addition to theplaying contract, and underwent more than eight drugtests for steroids.

Paterson also faced cultural challenges, encounter-ing a language barrier with Latin American teammates.

“At Linfield it was easy to form a team bondbecause we attended the same classes and lived and prac-ticed together,” said Paterson, who is the 36th Linfieldplayer to sign a professional baseball contract. “I found itdifficult to form a strong team bond in Florida becausewe spoke different languages and people were continu-ously coming and going from the team.”

Paterson used the dynamics of the new team to hisadvantage. He focused on his own skills and madeadjustments to improve.

“Tommy just has such a strong desire to play andsucceed at the professional level,” said Scott Brosius ’02,former New York Yankees third baseman and assistantLinfield baseball coach.

Now back in McMinnville for the off-season,Paterson will train with the Wildcat baseball team andstick to the strict workout regimen given to him by theGCL Phillies. He will return to Florida in February tobegin spring training. He is confident about his futurein baseball after his summer experience.

“My goal has always been to play in the majorleagues,” said Paterson. “I came away from this summerrealizing I have the drive and perseverance to accom-plish my goal.”

Paterson has a legion of fans rooting him on,including Brosius, who spent 11 seasons playing withthe Oakland A’s and the New York Yankees. He was alsothe most valuable player of the 1998 World Series.

“I know I felt this and I know Tommy feels it now,that if you can just get one shot to prove what you cando, that would be enough,” said Brosius. “Then, even ifyou fail, you know you have taken the chance and madethe effort.”

— Laura Graham ’07

‘Cat Tracks‘Cat Tracks

Paterson’s dreamcoming true

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Linfield College alumni have anew voice.

The Alumni Leadership Council,the collective voice of Linfield’s 19,000alumni, met for the first time inSeptember when 14 members con-vened on campus for the first of threeannual meetings. They will gather againin February and June. The new councilreplaces the alumni association execu-tive board as the liaison to the Linfieldadministration and board of trustees.

In addition to promoting Linfieldand advising the college of alumniconcerns, council members will assistthe alumni office in planning andimplementing alumni programs,according to Lisa Garvey ’86, directorof alumni relations.

“This group represents a goodcross section of our alumni popula-tion,” she said. “I’m looking forward toworking with them to prioritizeprogramming and make our eventsthe best they can be.”

Reconnecting withcollege classmates willsoon be easier, thanksto the new Linfield Collegealumni directory.

The printed directory, whichcontains alumni home addresses,phone numbers, email addresses andemployment information, is updatedevery five years. The new editionof the directory, due out nextsummer, will be organized alpha-betically, geographically and byclass. Representatives of PCI: TheData Company contacted alumni toupdate their information by emailand phone calls throughout thesummer. More than 9,300 alumnihave responded with updates.

Alumni can update personalinformation through a mailing thatwill be sent this month, or bycontacting the Linfield Office ofAlumni Relations at 503-883-2492or PCI at 1-800-982-1589.

Alumni can purchase the directo-ry in either hard copy or compact discform by contacting PCI.

Alumni information:503-883-2492 • alumni@linfield.edu or

You asked for improvements and nowthey are ready!

The Linfield College alumni Website hasbeen given a facelift. In response to alumnisuggestions, the site has been re-worked toenhance communication.The improved modules, scheduled to

launch later this fall, include a new online directory and

career networking components. Alumni will receive a lettercontaining access information for the updated site.

The site updates will allow alumni to control allpreferences related to their personal information. Thismeans the new site will be completely user driven.

Log on to www.linfield.edu/alumni to checkout other improvements including e-cards, alumni-specific links and fun facts about Wildcat alumni.

Alumni Leadership Council begins work

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Waive the application fee for a prospective student by visiting or calling the Office of Admission at 800-640-2287.

Amy Baltzell ’89, Sherwood

“It was so easy. It takes two minutes to do. Alumni can makesure Linfield College continues its line of outstanding individuals. The Recruit a Future Wildcat program offers students a connection to a place where they might not know anyone.”

Ben Los ’08, Lake Oswego

“It expanded my interest in Linfield College. Amy gave me a push to help me move along.”

Recruit a Future Wildcat

Application deadlines: Nov. 15 for early action, Feb. 15 for regular decision.

New and improved alumni Website to launch

Alumni can stay involved with Linfield College this fall throughvarious events.

For alumni in the California area, there will be a barbecue prior to the football game on Oct. 29 when the Wildcats take on MenloCollege in Atherton, Calif. Cost is $10. The festivities begin at 11:30a.m., with the game starting at 12:30 p.m. Register by Oct. 24.

A reception for alumni and families, planned in conjunction with the exhibit “Hesse: A Princely German Collection,” will be heldNov. 10 in the newly renovated Portland Art Museum. The exhibitwill feature antiquities, decorative arts and paintings from theGerman dynasty. Peter Richardson, professor of German, GudrunHommel, associate professor of German, and Brian Winkenweder,assistant professor of art history, will provide a brief history of thetime period represented in the exhibit. Cost is $20 or $15 for chil-dren under 12. The reception will begin at 5 p.m. and the exhibitwill open at 6:30. Register by Nov. 4.

Join other alumni on Nov. 12 when the Wildcat football teamfaces Willamette University. Meet at the Ram - Big Horn Brewery,515 12th St., SE, Salem, for no-host happy hour appetizers and bever-ages. The football game begins at 5 p.m. Register by Nov. 10.

Alumni are invited to a holiday reception Dec. 3 from 7 to 9 p.m.at the Pittock Mansion. Mingle with classmates while touring theturn-of-the-century mansion, which is fully decorated in a Christmastheme. The mansion is located at 3229 NW Pittock Drive in Portland.Refreshments will be provided. Register by Nov. 28.

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Variety of events planned for alumni

Alumni directoryupdate continues

New members of the Alumni Leadership Council are, front, from left, Leland “Lee” Paulson ’67 of Aurora,Colo.; Jeanine Ishii ’03 of Livermore, Calif.; Heather Thompson ’01 of Portland; Shannon Malcom ’06 ofMcMinnville; Christina (Waddell) Lund ‘93 of Cottage Grove; Ray Olson ‘54 of Vancouver, Wash.; back, Dana(Dancer) Vandecoevering ‘83 of Forest Grove; Jim Franklin ’75 of Shorewood, Minn.; Steve Marshall ’86 ofWest Linn; Gordon Kaufman ’62 of Mill Creek, Wash.; chair Chris Tjersland ’86 of Vancouver, Wash.; GlennKuhn ’71 of Camas, Wash.; Mike Martinis ’74 of Salem; and Matthew Vance ’99 of Portland.

Alumni News

1940-49Charles Rowell ’43 recently

moved to Napa, Calif., where he isan avid golfer.

Meridith Gaskill ’45 ofKirkland, Wash., volunteers at SiblingHouse Foundation, Evergreen Hospiceand Emergency Feeding Program.

1950-59Charles Chicks ’53 of

Sunnyvale, Calif., and his wife,Barbara, received the AmericanBaptist Churches SparrowkPresident’s Award during the bienni-al meeting of the American BaptistChurches USA in July.

Achilla (Imlong) Erdican ’57and ’58 of Avondale Estate, Ga.,published the Chang-English,English-Chang Dictionary.

Clare and Sandra (Cashner)Murray ’59 and ’62 of Vancouver,Wash., are both retired.

1960-69Roger and Florence (Wood)

Truax ’60 and ’59 of Astoria areretired and serve on the NorthCoast Land Conservancy in ClatsopCounty.

Dorothy (Chance) Worrall’63 of King City was recently hon-ored at the 25th anniversary of theMary Woodward School in Tigard.

She was the school’s first musicteacher.

Janet (Pedersen) Hoffman’64 of Keizer retired from theJudicial Department.

Barbara (Peterson) Keir ’64of Hood River retired from teach-ing in the Hood River SchoolDistrict.

Gerald Moyer ’65 of MillValley, Calif., accompanied highschool students during a springbreak trip to Mexico with AmorMinistries. They built three housesin four days without power tools.

Gail Adams ’66 of Altadena,Calif., retired in 2001 and attendedher sixth Mardi Gras in NewOrleans this year.

1970-79Roy Cummings ’70 of Salem

represents 4Life Research, Inc., spe-cializing in immune system health.

Dave Lemire ’72 of Coos Bayis a behavioral specialist and psy-chologist for the Education ServiceCenter in Coos Bay. He also teachesat Southwest Oregon CommunityCollege and Eastern OregonUniversity and serves on a numberof editorial boards.

Ann Sukalac ’73 of Salem isthe Linfield Division of ContinuingEducation Salem advisor. Sherecently completed the graduatecertificate in academic advising pro-gram from Kansas State University.

Brenda Adcock ’74 of Vero

Beach, Fla., is chaplain and con-struction supervisor at Indian RiverHabitat for Humanity.

Rob Stephenson ’75 ofMcMinnville owns Rob StephensonLandscape Design & Consultation.He previously owned CascadiaLandscaping.

Jim Beach ’78 of Bellevue,Wash., is chief financial officer andexecutive vice president of TheCobalt Group.

1980-89Kelly (Knapp) McMillan ’82

of McMinnville is the small groupministries director at Church on theHill in McMinnville.

Esther (Richardson)Appleman ‘83 of Lake Oswego ispresident of the Lake OswegoTemporary Shelter Ministry, a coali-tion of seven churches providinghousing for homeless families intransition.

Rick Crownover ’83 ofMohrsville, Pa., is director of theReading Hospital Regional CancerCenter.

Randy Mueller ’83 is generalmanager for the Miami Dolphins.He most recently served as an NFLanalyst for ESPN.com.

Joseph and Mona (Haldane)Kinder, both ’85, live inWalkersville, Md. Joseph attends theNational Defense University,Industrial College of the ArmedForces, working toward a master’s in

national resource management andMona is senior assistant manager atTalbots.

Lewis Black ’85 of Salt LakeCity, Utah, is artistic director ofStageRight Theatre Company inHoliday.

Polly (Bartels) Larsen ’85 ofScottsdale, Ariz., owns the LarsenGallery, a contemporary art gallery.

Howard Bell ’86 of Dundeeand his wife, Kim, had a son, GaryBryan, April 17.

Marty Pigg ’87 of Anchorage,Alaska, is the owner of SolsticeSolutions.

Chris and Diedre (Miles)Girod ’88 and ’89 live in Carlsbad,Calif., where Chris is a principaland consulting actuary withMilliman Consultants and Actuaries.

Sally Damewood ’89 of LaGrande had a son, Avery John, April24. She is a personal trainer forMavericks Sports Club.

Steve Reimann ’89 of Yamhillis co-owner of Wildcat Development,currently developing a 155-homesubdivision in Carlton.

1990-99Trent Davis ’90 of Lake

Oswego is chief executive and president of Paulson Investment Co.

Greg Gulliford ’90 ofVancouver, Wash., joined SeniorLoan Solutions, a reverse mortgagebroker.

Alan Boschma ’91 of

Class Notes

Pryor aids tsunami-ravaged regionThe children touched Thomas Pryor ’96 the most.

After all, he had left his own baby daughter in Arizonawhen he boarded the U.S. Navy’s Mercy hospital ship offthe shores of tsunami-ravaged Indonesia.

Pryor, a registered nurse, is a lieutenant commander inthe U.S. Public Health Service. He works for one of itsagencies, the Indian Health Service, most recently in theintensive-care unit at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center.

He spent the month of February with a medical teamworking to relieve the suffering inflicted by the monsterwave that slammed into southern Asia in December,killing an estimated 221,100 people.

It was an unprecedented international relief effort,Pryor said: one month, compared with the normal two-week deployment for such emergency aid, and the first jointoperation of the U.S. Navy and Project HOPE volunteers.Amid the chaos and destruction there were political sensi-tivities: Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim nation, andthe Americans did not want to force themselves on the gov-ernment. Civil strife compounded their safety concerns.

Banda Aceh’s ruined University Hospital served as akind of staging area. The first crisis for the Mercy staffarrived as a small boy with a burst appendix was flown outto the ship because the hospital could not treat him.

The next morning, a 12-year-old boy went intorespiratory failure. He had a severe lung infection, aspiratepneumonia, caused by swallowing contaminated water.The boy had nearly drowned, then floated on a log in theocean for two days before he was found. The rest of hisimmediate family was killed. Pryor nicknamed him“Harapan,” Indonesian for “hope.”

Since he had some pediatric experience, Pryorbecame Harapan’s primary attendant, working 12- to 14-hour days. Finally, after a week, the boy was able to breathewithout assistance.

Soon after, Pryor went ashore and visited the hospi-tal’s rebuilt pediatric unit.

There, he found a 7-year-old girl in similar respiratorydistress. While arranging for her transfer to the ship, henoticed several very ill babies about the age of his daughter,Audrey. “That’s when I really felt the heart tugs, because Irecognized that in my efforts in helping one, there were twoor three others who didn’t get my help that day,” he said.

Despite the devastation and limited medical resources,there were signs of hope. “Those that got antibiotics, ofwhatever kind – it was amazing to see how rapidly they gotbetter,” Pryor said, adding that their response was partlybecause the Indonesians, unlike most Americans, rarely getsuch drugs. “Some of our basic antibiotics that we hardly everuse anymore were very effective and powerful over there.”

On Feb. 23, Pryor flew by helicopter with Harapanfrom the Mercy back to shore to join the boy’s uncle, auntand their 2-year-old son – his only surviving relatives.Pryor wrote of the reunion in his online journal that day:“I guess what I was most struck with as I left Harapan andhis family is the impermanence of life, and how the mys-tery of life provided me an opportunity like this: To serveas an officer in the USPHS and be a part of the Mercymission, where I would find myself halfway around theworld in a different culture and different language, anddespite all of the differences I have rekindled a heartfeltreminder in Harapan and his uncle that we share so muchin common – the strength of family.”

Pryor returned March 2 to his own family, wife Erinand daughter Audrey, who is now a year old. In

September he entered the two-year Kaiser pro-gram in nursing anesthesia in Pasadena, Calif.,and after completion will continue to work forIndian Health Services.

To read more about his experiences, visitwww.surgeongeneral.gov/journal.

— Beth Rogers Thompson

A view of the beach front in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, during Thomas Pryor’s work there in February.

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Thomas Pryor ‘96 with “Harapan,”who nearly drowned in the tsunamiand lost his entire family.

Scott and Cecilia(Hoodenpyle) Robertson ’97and ’95 of Portland had a son,Adam Taggart, June 6.

Anneli (Ahlmalm) Schalock’97 of Hanover, N.H., is pursuing amaster’s in business administration atDartmouth’s Tuck School ofBusiness.

Kate Stolmeier ’97 ofBridgewater, Somerset, England,married Duncan MacRae April 8 inSomerset. She teaches in a primaryschool and participated in theFulbright Teacher’s ExchangeProgram in 2002-2003.

Samara Suafo’a ’97 of SanPedro, Calif., is a special educationteacher in the Los Angeles UnifiedSchool District, currently pursuing amaster’s in special education ofmoderate-severely disabled children.

Alicia (Nolan) Carlson ’98 ofLincoln, Neb., and her husband,Brian, adopted a daughter, LinaraGrace Renee, March 16. Alicia is aCASA volunteer and an in-homedaycare provider. She and her hus-band are also foster parents.

Devan Dunn ’98 of Portlandmarried Kate Murray July 30 inPortland.

Nicole (Erwert) Genduso ’98of Hillsboro and her husband,Joseph, had a son, Joseph Timothy,March 12.

Jessica (Gómez) Graham ’98of Salem teaches science at RegisHigh School in Stayton.

Amanda (Wilson) Kapelka’98 of Renton, Wash., and her hus-band, Ben, had a son, BenjaminWilson, April 25.

Michael McGrath ’98 ofPortland is a partner in the law firmof Gearing, Rackner and Engel,LLP in Portland.

Ryan McWayne ’98 ofLebanon and his wife, Leslie, had adaughter, Kiara Morgan, June 12.

Jeffrey Menold ’98 ofIssaquah, Wash., and his wife, Jaime,had a son, Jaxon Paul, Aug. 24.

Tramaine Payne ’98 ofMcMinnville teaches at PattonMiddle School and coaches footballand track at Linfield.

Taryne (Edmon) Roberts ’98of Springfield married AdamRoberts May 19 in Puerto Vallarta,Mexico.

Ryder Campbell ’99 of NewHaven, Conn., earned an MBAfrom Yale University and works forBarclays Capital in New York Citywith a certified financial advisordesignation.

Marissa (Rathbone) Dally’99 of Arcadia, Okla., is the directorof health and physical education forthe Texas Education Agency.

Karen (Churchill) Garcia ’99of Yuba City, Calif., and her hus-band, Joel, had a daughter, SophiaLuna, May 2.

Clark Marston ‘99 ofErlangen, Germany, and his wife,Melanie, had twin daughters, Emma

Marie and Sophie Luisa, April 28. Mindi Welton ’99 of

Needham, Maine, married JohnMitchell May 28. Melinda is anordained American Baptist Ministerat the First Baptist Church inNewton.

2000-05Sean Bettis ’00 is working for

the director of labor for theIcelandic Government.

Alice Divers and JosephBayless, both ’00, of Lake Oswegowere married Sept. 19.

Brittany Hartzell and JeffBaguley, both ’00, of Cayce, S.C.,were married Dec. 18. Both arecompleting post-doctoral research atthe University of South Carolinaafter earning Ph.D.s, Brittany inanalytical chemistry from OhioUniversity and Jeff in marine sci-ence from the University of Texas.

Brian Higa ’00 and LaurenArakawa ’03 of Hilo, Hawaii, weremarried July 2.

Meredith Miller ’00 of LakeOswego earned a bachelor's in inte-rior design from the Art Institute ofPortland.

Trevor Phillips ’00 andMichelle Mallory ’01 of Tucson,Ariz., were married May 7. Trevorgraduated from Yale UniversitySchool of Medicine in May and isan emergency medicine physician at

the University of North Carolina.Andrew Brawley ’01 and

Tracy Forrester ’03 of Burbank,Calif., were married Sept. 3. Tracy isa publicist for TV shows JimmyKimmel Live and America’s Next TopModel and Andrew is a marketingcoordinator for THQ, a video gamepublisher.

Inkeri Chisholm ’01 of LakeOswego married Chad Martin April 24.

Erin Gaskill ’01 of Kirkland,Wash., teaches sixth grade andorganized Project Sheltering Tree toprovide education advocacy for foster children.

Laura Gibson ’01 of Coquillerecorded a CD of urban folk music,Amends.

Annikke Olson ’01 ofHillsboro passed the NationalAthletic Trainers Association Boardof Certification.

Blake Pang ’01 of Honolulu,Hawaii, is the assistant vice presidentof Aloha United Way.

Stacy Shiraga ’01 of Bendmarried Brett Caldwell April 2.

Colene (Lord) Weber ’01 ofPhoenix, Ariz., earned a master’sdegree in education specializing inmiddle level education from WaldenUniversity.

Ryan Welch ’01 of Eugene andhis wife, Susan, had a son, CadeGrant, May 2. Ryan startedAOCREATIVE, a graphic designbusiness.

Class NotesMcMinnville is head football coachat Yamhill-Carlton High School.

Kristal Shelton ’92 of WestLinn married Corben Hyatt June 30.

Catherine (Taylor) Walton ’92of Vancouver, Wash., and her hus-band, Troy, own a home inspectionbusiness.

Gary Thorson ’91 ofMcMinnville is head football coachat Dallas High School.

Michele (Waters) Cornwall’92 of Newport is attending theUniversity of Portland School ofNursing.

Katie (Maben) Siechen ’92 ofIowa City, Iowa, and her husband,Andy, had a son, Isaac James, Feb. 26.

Alex Woodward ’92 of Tigardand his wife, Tracy, had a son, TathanJackson, Aug. 5.

Roland Armstrong ’93 ofCathlamet, Wash., earned the 2005Hero Award from the WashingtonBehavioral Healthcare Conference.

Sharon Boyle ’93 of TerreHaute, Ind., and her husband,Michael Boswell, had a daughter,Kayla Elizabeth, June 16.

Jenny Brudvig ’93 ofBeaverton married Carlin Irish June25. She works for U.S. Bank.

Janiece (Kern) Paulat ’93 ofVancouver, Wash., and her husband,Timothy, had a daughter, April 21.

Anne (Schmidt) Shantz ’93of Snohomish, Wash., and her hus-band, Bradley, had a son, LeviCharles, March 24.

Betty (Thompson) Tindall’93 of Longview, Wash., is retiredand enjoys attending and participat-ing in Corvette car shows.

Shannon Valdivia ’93 ofGresham is instructor of speechcommunication and director offorensics at Mt. Hood CommunityCollege. Her forensics team recentlywon the Northwest ForensicsConference regional championshipfor community colleges.

Angelique (Langenhuysen)Whitlow ’93 of Tigard is a seniormanager in audit services at Talbot,Korvola & Warwick, LLP, a CPAand consulting firm.

Mitzi Kirkland-Ives ’94 ofCoeur D’Alene, Idaho, earned aPh.D. from the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara and willteach at the University of BritishColumbia, Vancouver.

Tobi (Fauth) Schaap ’94 ofBarstow, Calif., and her husband,Brian, had a son, Spencer William,July 28.

Lincoln and Allison (Tomac)Bach ’95 and ’96 of Portland had adaughter, Hannah, Jan. 25, theirthird.

Sheryl Kelsh ’95 of Keizer is

executive director of the ChehalemValley Chamber of Commerce inNewberg.

Amy (Landis) Dannen ’95 ofLebanon and her husband, Allen,had twin daughters, Sadie Josephineand Lauren Elizabeth, May 6, theirsecond and third.

Katina Rothleutner ’95 ofKirkland, Wash., married JoelZwiefelhofer July 9 in ChippewaFalls, Wis.

Joe and Dayna (Harper)Schuler, both ’95, of Portland hada son, Joseph, June 21, their second.

Stephanie Stewart ’95 ofPortland and her husband, MichaelSt. Clair, had a daughter, EleanorKole, Feb. 9. Stephanie is a painter.

Bernadette Suafo’a ’95 andJulian Tyrell ’94 were marriedNov. 6. They live in Hauula, Hawaii.

Amy (Strong) Wilson ’95 ofBeaverton and her husband, Carter,had a daughter, Paige Hannah, Aug.14. Amy works in surgery atDoernbecher Children’s Hospital.

Jody (Bogle) VanDePol ’95 ofClarksburg, Calif., and her husband,Jason, had a daughter, Abigail, July 4.

Steffani Bailey ’96 ofProvidence, R.I., is interning atBrown University Medical Centerto complete requirements for aPh.D. in clinical psychology.

Shelby (Smith) Nemecek ’96of Beaverton is a disability benefitsanalyst for Standard InsuranceCompany.

Melissa (Long) Owen ’96 ofVancouver, B.C., Canada, and herhusband, Nick, had a son, NileAlexander, March 26.

Mike Westphal ’96 ofBloomington, Ind., is an assistantswim coach at Indiana University.

Korenza Burris ’97 of Dexteris news anchor for KEZI-TV inEugene.

Matt and Eris (Miller)Craven, both ’97, live in Bendwhere Matt is a math teacher, headtrack coach and assistant footballcoach at Bend High School.

Alyssa (Gleed) Johnston ’97of Durham, N.C., earned an MBAfrom the University of NorthCarolina’s Kenan-Flagler School ofBusiness.

Paul O’Hollaren ’97 ofTualatin and his wife, Karen, had adaughter, Keelie Kay, Nov. 13. Paulis a territory manager for VNUSMedical Technologies.

Richard Neel ’97 of Portlandmarried Elise Brahmer April 9.Rich is an account executive forCytyc Corporation.

Jeff and Nissa (Cockrell)Roberts ’97 and ’96 of Tualatin hada daughter, McKenna Kaye, June 9.

‘New Directions’ for Oregon inmatesEvelyn (Andrus) Hanks ’57 is

offering inmates at Eastern OregonCorrectional Institution a key to lifebeyond bars: education.

Hanks taught French and Spanish atBlue Mountain Community College inPendleton from 1983 to 1999. She alsotaught English as a second language atthe medium-security prison inPendleton during those years, full time atthe prison from 1991 to 1999.

Today, Hanks chairs the board ofthe New Directions Education Project, a nonprofit organizationshe launched in 1999 after hearing about a similar prison program in Kentucky. Since spring 2000, about 130 inmateshave participated.

Only 57 percent of the inmates have completed highschool or the GED, making them eligible for New Directionsclasses. “Most of them were losers all the time in school,”Hanks said. With New Directions, they are discovering theycan be successful in academics.

New Directions offers courses leading to an Associate ofArts degree, including speech, U.S. history, biology, physics,creative writing, math, art history, music literature, sociology,psychology, cultural anthropology, Oregon geography, and fit-ness for life. “All except one prep math class are transferable toany Oregon university,” Hanks noted. “Many of them didn’trealize they were college material, and they are so thrilled.They are so motivated, and they do their homework.”

New Directions is the only program of its type inOregon. Since 1994, when funding began to dry up, no college classes had been available at any prison in the state.“This is the reason our program came into being,” Hanks said.

New Directions operates with an annual budget of about$24,000. The men each pay $25 per 10-week term to offsettuition for the classes taught by Blue Mountain faculty. Sometextbooks have been donated by publishers. The balance of theprogram costs comes from donations, grants and annual benefitconcerts. The fall 2004 concert, with a “Jailhouse Rock”theme of 1950s and 1960s music performed by volunteers,raised about $4,000, Hanks said.

Prison is a stark contrast to her previous work environ-ments. The Salem native, who also studied in France under aFulbright fellowship in 1957, received a master’s of religiouseducation at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary inPhiladelphia. She has held several jobs in Christian educationat churches in California and Oregon.

She remains active in church activities. Hanks and husbandJim, a retired insurance adjuster, have a son in Ashland, adaughter in Missoula, Mont., and 4-year-old twin grandsons.

– Beth Rogers Thompson

Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ‘57

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Are you ready for a challenge?Ten alumni have pledged a $25,000 gift to Linfield if 25 percent or more alumnimake a gift by June 30, 2006. Step up tothe challenge and be one of 3,352 alumnineeded to reach 25 percent.

Look for details in the mail or askphonathon students how your gift can help Linfield receive another $25,000.

These and other Linfield students will soon be calling you to join the “25 for 25 Challenge.”

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Fast-paced finance good fit for CFOMike Yonker ’80 is the first to admit he’s an over-

achiever.Sitting in his top-floor Wilsonville office, surrounded

by family photos and outdoor scenes, he drinks from awater bottle, hydrating himself for the coming weekend’sHood to Coast relay.

“I’m a play-hard work-hard person,” he said.“Whatever it is, I go at it with 150 percent effort to bethe best at it.”

So it came as no surprise when, as a Linfield Collegesophomore, Yonker discovered a passion for accountingand buckled down to complete his college coursework early.

The only thing left to do was begin his career, whichhe did with a vengeance during his senior year.

Now, Yonker is executive vice president and chieffinancial officer for InFocus Systems Inc., a multimediaprojector maker with 700 employees and offices world-wide. He’s been with InFocus since 1993, save for a three-year stint as CFO for Wieden & Kennedy. He spent hisfirst 14 years out of college rocketing to partner statuswith Arthur Andersen & Company.

The son of Thomas Yonker, Linfield educationprofessor from 1970 to 1988, Mike grew up enveloped inLinfield’s collegiate atmosphere. He developed a love ofeducation and an interest in communication, recognizingearly that people take differentaction as a result of how they under-stand something.

“That’s always fascinated me,”he said. “I love being in front of peo-ple. I love teaching. I love interact-ing. And I think a lot of that camefrom my father and growing uparound Linfield. Enrolling there wasthe natural, next thing for me to do.”

Yonker’s initial interest in marine biology and forestywas short lived. Prompted by his sister, Kathy (Yonker)Bernards ’76, a business major, Yonker enrolled in anaccounting class taught by Mike Jones, professor of account-ing. For both Yonker and Jones, it was their first accountingclass at Linfield – Yonker as a student and Jones as professor.

“He really took me under his wing,” Yonker said ofJones. “He saw in me what I didn’t realize I had. Had henot taken that level of interest in me, I doubt I would havetaken the track I have.”

Under Jones’ guidance, Yonker interviewed andsecured an internship with Arthur Andersen & Company,setting into motion the now successful Linfield account-ing student recruiting program.

“Mike had a spark that was evident even when hewas a sophomore,” Jones remembered. “I’ve alwaysappreciated how he paved the way for a lot of latergenerations of students. He was a tip top student. I’mnot surprised at his success.”

While Yonker is fascinatedwith the fast-paced work andadvanced technologies central toInFocus products, his favoritepart of his job is drawing out thebest in the people around him.As CFO, he works with employ-ees in all departments.

“I do everything I can tohelp them achieve way beyond

what they think they’re capable of doing,” said Yonker. “Asthe people I work with achieve greatness, it raises all theboats in the company, including mine.”

Yonker, who married Robin (Haun) ’83, is a strongproponent of a liberal arts education. He encourages stu-dents, including his own three children, to step outsidetheir comfort zones by studying abroad.

“It broadens you as an individual,” he said. “Themarket today is a worldwide market and you have to bechameleon-like in your ability to step into multiplecultures and environments, and be effective in yourcommunications so that you can get business done.”

— Laura Davis

“As the people I work withachieve greatness, it raises allthe boats in the company,

including mine.”

Mike Yonker ‘80 combines his enthusiasm for finance and high technology as CFO forInFocus Systems Inc., a multimedia projector maker based in Wilsonville.

Alumni Profile

Sonté Wong ’01 of Bismarck,N.D., and Thomas Ford ’04 ofFederal Way, Wash., were membersof the Tri-Cities, Wash., Feverindoor football team that capturedthe National Indoor FootballLeague Championship.

Kaysie (Williams) Angeletta’02 of Scurry, Texas, and her hus-band, John, had a daughter, EmilyRose, Dec. 16.

Aaron Godfred ’02 of Norwalk,Conn., is an account executive forOctagon, developing Nextel’sNASCAR marketing strategy.

Stacey Springer ’02 of NorthPlains married Marcus Glaze Aug.13 in Portland. Stacey teaches sev-enth grade health and language artsat Brown Middle School andcoaches softball at Century HighSchool. She is also pursuing a mas-ter’s degree at Pacific University.

Megan (Corman) Tucker ’02of Sacramento, Calif., teaches musicin Sacramento and Vacaville.

Danielle Watson and NicholasClearwater, both ’02, ofClackamas were married July 30 inMilwaukie.

Ali Benson ’03 of Beaverton

passed the National Athletic TrainersAssociation Board of Certification.

Larry Fudge ’03 of Pasadena,Calif., is pursuing graduate studiesat Fuller Theological Seminary.

Rhea Hartlieb ’03 of LakeOswego is on a three-person open-ing team for Abercrombie & FitchCorporation.

Kristin Hindley ’03 ofBeaverton married OwenMcCartney July 23 in Beaverton.

Amy Smith ’03 of Portland isa faculty coordinator for an interna-tional leadership development firm.

Brandon Standridge ’03 ofGlendale teaches social studies andcoaches boys’ varsity basketball atGlendale High School.

Fred Elchlepp ’04 of Corvallisis research associate at DLFInternational Seeds ResearchStation in Philomath.

Kristen (Snook) Michael ’04of McMinnville coordinates theYouth Empowerment Squad andJuvenile Crime and SubstanceAbuse Prevention Council for theYamhill County PreventionProgram.

Rachel Ruger ’04 of

McCleary receives Grimes AwardEducation and innovation have been career hallmarks

for Carol McCleary GSH ’55 of San Antonio, Texas.McCleary, this year’s recipient of the Lloydena Grimes

Award for Excellence in Nursing, is a retired United StatesAir Force colonel. Throughout her 26-year career, she displayed a commitment to nursing that enhanced the profession around the world.

McCleary started out at Good Samaritan Hospital ashead nurse of the diabetic medical/surgical unit two weeksbefore graduation, and was later a GSH science instructor.She entered the Air Force in 1962, ultimately creating andimplementing numerous first-time clinical, staff develop-ment and educational programs for staff and nurses.

Over the years, McCleary served in a number of overseasposts including Turkey, Vietnam and Germany, and traveledwidely through Europe from Norway to Turkey. She wascommand nurse in three major air commands, directlyresponsible to the command surgeon. When she retired in1988, McCleary was responsible for over 2,800 personnel inthree medical centers, seven hospitals, four clinics, theSchool of Health Care Sciences and Air Force RecruitingService.

Since retirement, McCleary has served as board memberand newsletter editor for the Society of Air Force Nurses.She also created and manages her retirement communitylibrary and volunteers at the San Antonio Main Library.

Vancouver, Wash., is pursuing agraduate degree in mathematics atPortland State University.

Ronna Sweeney ’04 ofWoodburn is a televisionreporter/anchor for KCBY-TV inCoos Bay.

Chelsea Zeal and JakeRoberts, both ’04, of Portlandwere married June 25 in Portland.

Nicole Hunter ’05 ofSyracuse, N.Y., is pursuing a master’sin television/radio/film at SyracuseUniversity.

Coleen Hoadley ’05 ofMedford married Scott Gies July 2in Ashland.

Alex Justus ’05 of Bellevue,Wash., plays for the GatewayGrizzlies baseball team.

Kimberly McGough ’05 ofAlbany took over her father’s mathclass at Calapooia Middle School inAlbany after he retired.

Rebecca Price ’05 of Flagstaff,Ariz., married Joseph Colman Aug.23 in Phoenix.

Seth Prickett ’05 of Ghana,Africa, volunteers as a teacher at aprimary school.

GSHLinda (Transue) Davis GSH

’72 of Portland works for LegacyHealth System in the employeehealth division.

Catherine (Cole) York GSH’83 of Portland writes articles aboutthe wine industry for The Oregonian.

In memoriamMary (Westall) Parrish ’35 of

Portland, Aug. 24. Survivors includeher daughter, Virginia (Parrish) Peterson ’68, and sister Frances(Westall) Daniels ’39.

Eva (Gaches) Collinson ’38of Mount Vernon, Wash., April 28.

Marjorie (Perkins) Camp ’39of Livermore, Calif., Sept. 29, 2004.

Marjory (Miller) Hillman ’39of San Jose, Calif., Feb. 5.

James Henry ’40 of Kaysville,Utah, March 6, 2004.

Maxine (Klinge) Hildman’41 of Paradise Valley, Ariz., May 24,2004.

John Sullivan ’41 of Glendale,Ariz., Sept. 7, 2004.

Katherine (Bishop)Sutherland ’41 of Yorktown, Va.,Oct. 14.

Dorothy Rattey ’41 ofWarrensburg, Mo., April 21.Survivors include her brother, JohnRattey, Jr. ’47.

Ruth (Ross) Lomer ’42 of

Longview, Wash., July 28.Jean Larson ’43 of Olympia,

Wash., Oct. 26.Dorothy (Torner) Leypoldt

’44 of Capistrano, Calif., July 30,2004.

Marshall Barnard ’49 ofPortland, June 2.

Franklin Voigt ’49 of Sumner,Wash., July 20.

Betty (Hausen) Corn ’50 ofWalla Walla, Wash., March 17, 2004.

Keith Wood ’50 ofMcMinnville, Aug. 6. Survivors includehis wife, Bettie (Spring) ’48.

Sybil Seward ’53 ofMcMinnville, Sept. 23.

John Collins ’54 of Reno,Nev., Aug. 16.

James Buckingham ’58 ofCalistoga, Calif., Feb. 1.

Jenora Michaelsohn ’57 ofPortland, Aug. 11.

Patricia (Davenport)McCarley ’61 of Lake Oswego,June 4. Survivors include daughtersKatherine (McCarley) Campbell’90 and Kelly (McCarley)Andresen ’91.

Austin Cole ’75 of Compton,Calif., June 29, 1999.

Dion Sanders ’78 of Las Vegas,Nev., Jan. 10, 2004.

Eric Kautzky ’90 of Portland,June 18.

Scarlett (Skill) Holland ’92of Vancouver, Wash., June 17, 2004.Survivors include her brother,Brent Skill ’69.

Mark Shirtcliff ’93 of Bend,June 25. Survivors include his sister,Melody (Shirtcliff) Cobb ’93.

Randall Dorosh ’93 ofEugene, May 25.

GSHDelores (Irish) Fairchild

GSH ’48 of Medford, Nov. 10.Elizabeth Vierling GSH ’74

of Volusia, Fla., Dec. 13.

Friends and familyDorothy Harn of Eugene, July

2. She was the wife of the lateWayne Harn, former Linfield foot-ball coach.

Raymond Befus ofMcMinnville, June 25. He was aprofessor of education for 20 years.Survivors include his daughter,Myrth (Befus) Ogilvie ’76.

Katherine Scott of Carlton,Aug. 1.

Irvin Walsh of Portland, June26. Survivors include his sonGregory ’73 and daughter-in-lawPeggy (Thomas) ’74.

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