LINFIELD
Winter 2006
Thomas L. Hellie
Linfield’s 19th President
MAGAZINE
Table of Contents
Student Profile
Departments
Curiosity has been his inspiration
Oliver Ogden ‘06, left, gives direction to Matthew (Matt) Hall ‘07, center, and
Keegan Basset ‘09 for a scene in Woyzeck, a play Ogden directed in the fall.
Oliver Ogden ’06 is a Renaissance Man.
He has managed to combine his interests in photography, history, anthropology, film, literature, Spanish and
drama into two majors – English and theatre.
“What makes Linfield unique is that it offers students
an enormous amount of opportunity to explore what
they are interested in,” Ogden said.
He has worked for the Linfield Review, has acted,
directed and worked in every aspect of theatre, and has
traveled abroad. He is fascinated with the great
American troubadour, exemplified by people such as
Walt Whitman and Jack Kerouac who made a living
traveling and writing about their experiences. He is
working on a research project on how life on the road
has evolved and changed, and he would like to someday
produce a documentary film on the topic.
He chose Linfield partly because of a family connection – his father and uncle attended and his grandmother worked in the library for many years. “I saw a
lot of opportunity here, a lot of interesting things I
could do and learn,” he said.
In his freshman year, Ogden’s skill and interest in
photography earned him the position of photo editor of
the Review just two months after he enrolled. By his
sophomore year, he was cast in Waiting for Godot, the final
production in the Pioneer Theatre.
“Theatre seemed like it might be a good path for me
with my interest in film,” he said.
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Since then, he has acted in four productions and
assisted with nearly every other play. This fall he directed
Woyzeck, a dark 19th century German play that serves
as a commentary on the aftermath of war and its effect
on its soldiers.
Although Woyzeck was the first full-length production
that Ogden directed, he had directed one-act Icebreaker
plays and served as assistant director of Scapino under the
tutelage of Janet Gupton, assistant professor of theatre arts.
In addition, each of the four plays in which he performed
featured a different director, which provided insight into
how different people approach that role.
“Directing Woyzeck was rewarding because it is a
reflection of everything I have done and accomplished at
Linfield,” Ogden said.
Ogden was attracted to theatre in part for the visual
aspects, and scenic and costume design. He enjoys performing, but also finds directing interesting because the
director is the inspiration for all aspects of the production.
“A lot of art is very individualistic,” he said. “In theatre, it is ultimately collaborative and it goes beyond the
artists involved. It’s about communicating with an audience and communicating with each other.”
Ogden is curious about all aspects of theatre and is
creative and talented, said Gupton.
“He raises intelligent questions and engages in the
materials well beyond the average student,” she said.
“He loves the collaborative nature of theatre and sees
the potential theatre has to raise issues and generate
discussion.”
Although he has had many great professors, Ogden
said Gupton has been his greatest inspiration.
“She has such passion for the theatre and it’s easy for
her to get excited about what her students are doing,”
Ogden said. “She is very patient, encouraging and
dedicated and has been a profound teacher for me. She
continues to push the envelope in her own art and it’s
fun to be involved.”
Ogden had planned to graduate with a theatre arts
degree in December. But after learning he was just a few
credits shy of an English major, he opted to stay one more
semester.
“I have a fascination with history, and both theatre
and English allowed me to explore history and the words
of people who were seeing the world at a different time,”
he said. He’s unsure of his plans after graduation, but is
considering work in the theatre or film industry.
– Mardi Mileham
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A View from Melrose
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Linfield Digest
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‘Cat Tracks
Inside Linfield Magazine
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Alumni News
Linfield College will move into a new era when
Dr. Thomas L. Hellie begins his tenure as president in
April. In this issue, we offer a profile of him that
includes some insight from people who have known
him for many years. We also take a look at back at
some of the presidents who preceded him. Ten
Linfield students have received Fulbrights in the last
six years. We asked four of them how those awards
have changed their lives. Nursing students on the
Portland Campus are getting realistic experiences
thanks to “Mr. Sim Man,” a mannequin who can simulate a patient, and the new Simulation Lab on the
Portland Campus. A collaborative research project
explores the success of some century farms in
Yamhill County and helps students gain a better
understanding of local history. And off the field,
Linfield athletes are also winning awards for academic achievements. We look forward to helping you
get to know Dr. Hellie and his wife, Julie Olds, in the
coming months and to continue sharing more stories
about the people of Linfield College.
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Class Notes
Features
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How one student balances triple majors with
work and home commitments
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Passionate about the liberal arts
An introduction to Dr. Thomas L. Hellie, Linfield
College’s 19th president
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Bringing reality into the lab
A Simulation Lab on the Portland Campus provides
students with realistic health care experiences
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Fulbrights lead to self-discovery
Four Fulbright winners share how the awards
changed their lives
– Mardi Mileham
On the Covers:
Front: Thomas L. Hellie (Tom Ballard photo)
Back: Scenes from January Term 2006, clockwise
from top left, Austrialia, India and London (photos by
Randy Grant, Ginny Hall ??, Laura Graham ’07)
Finding balance in her life
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Century farms carry on tradition
A collaborative research project explores
the success of century farms
LINFIELD MAGAZINE
Editor
Mardi Mileham
mmileham@linfield.edu
503-883-2498
Assistant Editor
Laura Davis
Graphic Design
Candido Salinas III
Photography
Tom Ballard
Kelly Bird
Lana Crandall ’07
Laura Davis
Genny Hall ’08
Daniel Hurst
Ryan Gardner ’97
Laura Graham ’07
Mardi Mileham
Theresa Schmidt
R.J. Studio
Contributors
Kelly Bird
Marvin Henberg
Lisa Garvey ’86
Laura Graham ’07
Beth Rogers Thompson
Advisory Board
Ed Gans
Kerry (Van Wyngarden)
Hinrichs ’96
Dick Hughes ’75
R. Gregory Nokes
Sherri (Dunmyer)
Partridge ’86
Interim President
Marvin Henberg
Vice President for
College Relations
Bruce Wyatt
Director of Alumni
Relations
Debbie (Hansen)
Harmon ’90
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Student Profile
A View from Melrose
Finding balance in her life
Cultivating the restless
yet disciplined intellect
We all know and relish the stereotype: a fussy, aging
professor with yellowing note cards from which he
delivers the same dreary lectures year after year. When
the note cards were first composed is a mystery. Where
the yellowing comes from is not, for time has bypassed
this stereotypical professor. The only thing current
about him is the mirth of his students.
Happily, in 11 years as dean reviewing and evaluating the work of every faculty member at Linfield
College, I never encountered yellowing note cards.
Linfield faculty members are always changing something:
their selection of readings, their delivery of material,
their use of information technology, their selection of
class projects, their deployment of small group discussions, their laboratory assignments, their field trips and
even their course venues – visiting hospitals, factories,
explorer clubs and exotic cities throughout the world.
Faculty members arriving at Linfield today, in the
21st century, face a greater challenge than that faced by
their predecessors. At the normal age of hiring, they can
contemplate a teaching career of some 35 years. Yet the
half-life of information compiled in their Ph.D. dissertations is less than seven years. That is, half of what they
took such care in mastering and wielding into a disciplined thesis will be superseded in seven years or
fewer. Simultaneously, faculty members must tap into
the restless idealism and energy of each rising generation of students. To maintain standing with their intellectual peers as well as their students, today’s faculty
members have no choice but to be restless themselves;
they must continuously learn as much as ever they did
in graduate school.
A faculty of the caliber of Linfield’s craves continuous learning and intellectual renewal, and the institution
strives to provide the support that makes it possible.
Each year the college provides funds for projects such as
that of a young faculty member in the Department of
Mathematics. Prof. Charles Dunn will travel to Europe
this summer to make contacts with mathematicians in
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Basel, Switzerland; Berlin, Germany; and St.
Petersburg, Russia, in preparation for a January Term
course centered on the renowned 18th century Swiss
mathematician Leonhard Euler. It will be the first
January Term travel course that the mathematics
department has offered.
In another current example, Prof. Robert Gardner, a
new member of the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, spent this January in New Orleans and
vicinity as part of a study of the sociological effects of the
forced migration of Gulf Coast residents in the wake of
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This project will lay the
groundwork for continuing research and for a January
Term course that Prof. Gardner plans to teach on location
next year. Beyond that, he notes, “I will be able to integrate my research and field experiences into every class
that I teach and bring real-world experiences of disaster,
stories of human suffering and conflict, and victories of
community and solidarity directly to my students.”
Unfortunately, there are many more applications
from faculty for such activities than there are funds to
support them. To narrow the funding gap, Linfield is
engaged in an effort to secure grants and to build a $1
million endowment that will support faculty development efforts of all kinds. In a complementary effort, the
college has launched a program to assist faculty in
obtaining outside grant funds for research, fellowships
and other development projects.
Yellowing note cards would be a far greater travesty
today than for our stereotypical professor of yesteryear.
Without faculty restoration and renewal, students will
suffer. This is why it has been truly said that “faculty
development is student development.” Most important
of all, faculty restoration and renewal are key to keeping
the college itself vibrant and youthful, even as it
approaches the venerable age of 150.
– Marvin Henberg
Interim President
Miranda Miller ’06 with Kiwi, her first
Holstein dairy cow.
Miranda Miller’s
life is like a puzzle she
fits together seamlessly
each day.
Miller ’06 darts
around town and
campus in her red
Ford Focus, pausing
only to refuel at a
drive-through coffee
stand. She wears goanywhere, no-nonsense slacks and a
button-down blouse,
her shoulder-length
chestnut hair tied
back in a ponytail.
Waiting for a class to begin, she addresses envelopes
to her peer advisees, then flips open her laptop to type
a note. A reminder is scrawled on her hand in ink; she
has run out of room in her planner.
From the time her alarm rings at 6 a.m. until she
logs off at midnight, Miller balances a 3.9 GPA in three
majors — elementary education, business and mass
communication — plus a part-time law office job, student teaching and more. On weekends she gets ahead
on assignments between chores on her family’s
Tillamook dairy farm.
Miller had planned to study agricultural marketing
at Oregon State University. Her plans changed in
2000, when she served as Oregon Dairy Princess,
promoting milk and the dairy industry throughout
the state. Her responsibilities included speaking to
school children.
“I loved working with kids, but I had never thought
about a teaching degree,” Miller said. Interacting with
hundreds of children during her reign led her to consider a career in education.
She applied to Linfield after meeting Dave
Haugeberg, a McMinnville attorney and a Linfield
College trustee, at an agricultural event in McMinnville
where she spoke.
“She was very articulate, persuasive and overall a
charming young woman,” said Haugeberg, who gave
Miller a part-time job at his law office. “I thought to
myself, ‘She has to go to Linfield.’”
Faculty in the Departments of Business, Elementary
Education and Mass Communication have been instrumental in helping Miller chart her future.
“Miranda has a great focus and motivation to achieve
certain academic goals at Linfield,” said Edward Gans,
assistant professor of mass communication. “We have been
able to work with her to integrate her interests into the
curriculum and the classroom, and hopefully, to help her
realize her goals.”
As secretary of Kappa Delta Phi educational honor
society, a former producer of Wildcat Productions, a Linfield
Colloquium peer adviser, a 4-H leader and a member of the
Linfield Bowling Club, Miller seems to have more energy
than a roomful of kindergarteners on a rainy day. But she
credits her success to organization and discipline.
“By the fifth grade I had learned about the work
ethic, doing things right the first time and multitasking,”
Miller said.
She’s no grind, however: Miller has an annual pass
to Disneyland, visiting regularly with her parents and
younger sister.
This fall, Miller taught in the third-grade class of
Wendy (Levig) Autencio ’88 at Memorial Elementary
School in McMinnville.
“I see Miranda being so excited about teaching, and
it inspires me,” Autencio said. “She brings a high energy
to the classroom that works well with the kids.”
Although she loves teaching, Miller has not ruled
out a job promoting the dairy industry when she graduates in May. “The industry has given me so much,” she
said. “It has shaped where I am and who I am today, and
I would just like to give back.”
– Laura Graham ’07
Miranda Miller reads a story to a third-grade class at Memorial Elementary School,
where she student-taught in the fall with Wendy (Levig) Autencio ’88.
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Smith announces $1 million donation to Linfield College
Delford Smith, founder and CEO of Evergreen Inc.,
has made a $1 million donation to Linfield College to
support Wildcat athletics.
Smith announced the gift from him and the
Evergreen family during the Athletics Hall of Fame banquet on Nov. 5. Smith, who is also a member of the
Linfield College Board of Trustees, was inducted into the
Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame for his meritorious service
to the program.
“Del Smith has a long record of support of Linfield
College,” said Interim President Marvin Henberg. “For
more than 30 years, he has not only supported the athletic program, but has given to academic programs and provided numerous internship and employment opportunities to Linfield students and alumni. We greatly appreciate
his continued support of Linfield College.”
The money will be used for future athletics projects.
“We believe the Linfield athletic program is one of
the best classrooms on campus,” Smith said. “Linfield athletics teach young students principles to be successful.
Success is defined as integrity, Christian values, virtuous
behavior and achievement – not fame and fortune, which
are false values.”
Some of Smith’s contributions to the college have
included providing transportation, lodging and meals to
the baseball team for pre-season trips to Arizona. He has
also provided transportation to the coaching staff for
recruiting trips and contributed to the construction of the
Pamela L. Jacklin
Del Smith, founder and CEO of Evergreen Inc., has been an avid supporter
of Linfield College over the years. He provided Linfield finance students with
a Gulfstream jet ride to New York City where they took part in the Seminar in
Securities Markets January Term class, led for 14 years by Scott Chambers,
professor of finance.
Rutschman Field House and to the renovations of Helser
Field and the football field and track.
Smith has also supported academic and student programs at Linfield. He contributed to the construction of
Nicholson Library and has provided support for the
Linfield Business Department, the Edith Green Lecture
Fund and the President's Discretionary Fund.
Smith and Evergreen companies have been a source
of internships for numerous Linfield students. Many graduates have gone on to work at Evergreen companies as a
direct result of those internships.
Two new residence halls to honor distinguished professors
Two new residence halls are under construction along Renshaw Avenue, across
from Renshall Hall. They will be open fall semester.
Two new residence halls under construction at Linfield
will be named in honor of distinguished professors.
The north building will be named in honor of Harold
C. Elkinton, professor of economics and business from 1927
to 1969. The south building will be named in honor of
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Jacklin, Bond elected to serve on Linfield Board of Trustees
Horace C. Terrell, professor of English from 1933 to 1961.
The buildings, located east of Renshaw Hall, will be formally dedicated at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, prior to the first
home football game of the season.
The project will cost $4.3 million, financed by a
30-year bond. William Wilson Architects designed the
buildings, and Walsh Construction is the contractor.
Each hall will house 65 students and include increased
common area space, niches with couches at the ends of hallways, group study rooms with whiteboards, a gas fireplace,
laundry rooms and recycling centers on every floor, and
vaulted ceilings on the third floor. Each room will include
a personal sink. The halls will also have Ethernet connections and be equipped for wireless Internet so students can
take laptops out of their rooms to work.
“We are excited about the new residence halls,” said Jeff
Mackay ’88, associate dean of students and housing director. “With input from students, faculty and staff, we have
designed two halls that will blend the traditional elements
with new features that will make these attractive facilities for
students to live in for years to come.”
Phillip Bond ’78
Pamela L. Jacklin, partner in
the Stoel Rives law firm in Portland,
and Phillip Bond ’78, senior vice
president with Monster Worldwide,
have been elected to the Linfield
College Board of Trustees.
Jacklin, who has been with
Stoel Rives for more than 25 years,
has practiced law in a variety of
areas, including issues relating to
electricity and utility markets and
rates, employment, insurance claims
and disputes, discrimination cases
and other matters. She is the firm’s
lead diversity partner and chair of its
diversity committee. She has a bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan
University, a master’s degree in law
and diplomacy from the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy at
Tufts University, and a J.D. from the
University of Idaho. She is a co-founder and former
chair of the board of the I Have a Dream FoundationOregon. She has served on the faculty at Washington
State University in Pullman and Bowie State College in
Maryland.
Bond serves as Monster’s lead person on public
policy, enabling business development initiatives and
promoting Monster’s visibility within government
circles. In addition, he is also general manager of the
Monster Government Solutions division providing HR
technology services and software to the public sector.
Prior to joining Monster Worldwide earlier this year, he
served for four years as the undersecretary of commerce
for technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce
and also served on the President’s National Science and
Technology Council. He previously was an advisor to
the Bush campaign on technology issues and served as
director of federal public policy and head of the
Washington, D.C., office for Hewlett-Packard, where he
served as the company’s voice to Congress and the
Executive Branch.
Lectures, readings highlight spring events at Linfield College
Several major lectures and readings are scheduled at
Linfield College spring semester. For a complete list go
to: http://www.linfield.edu/press.
MONDAY, MARCH 6
David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and
former foreign correspondent of The New York Times, will
speak on his book The Working Poor: Invisible in America at
7:30 p.m. in the Jereld R. Nicholson Library. He won the
Pulitzer Prize for his book Arab and Jew:Wounded Spirits in
a Promised Land.
MONDAY, MARCH 20
Huston Smith, internationally known author and
teacher of world religions, will present the Frazee
Lecture, at 7:30 p.m. in Melrose Auditorium. Smith is the
Thomas J. Watson professor of religion and distinguished
adjunct professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Syracuse
University. He is the author of 14 books, including The
World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions and Why
Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of
Disbelief.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
Raichelle Glover, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, will
speak on liberal arts paths to corporate leadership, at 7:30
p.m. in Melrose Auditorium. Glover is senior vice presi-
dent/global business and financial services for Bank of
America. She will spend a week on campus, interacting
with faculty and students while sharing insights from her
career in the top levels of banking leadership.
THURSDAY, APRIL 6
Robin Wall Kimmerer, winner of the 2005 John
Burroughs Medal for Gathering Moss: A Natural and
Cultural History of Mosses, will present the Jane Claire
Dirks-Edmonds Ecology Lecture at 7:30 p.m. in 101 Graf
Hall. She is an associate professor on the faculty of
Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University
of New York College of Environmental Science and
Forestry.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10
David Quammen, a former Rhodes Scholar, will present a reading at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Mac Reads series.
He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine
Award for his National Geographic essay “Was Darwin
Wrong?” and for his science and nature columns in
Outside magazine, which he wrote from 1981 to 1995. He
has published nine books, including The Song of the Dodo.
The reading is sponsored by the Friends of Nicholson
Library, Friends of McMinnville Public Library and the
Linfield English Department.
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supportive of the professional programs and a very student-centered president. He understands the dynamics
and culture of the place where he lives. He will be careful of Linfield and respect that culture.”
W
hen Tom Hellie was growing up
Thomas L. Hellie, who will begin work April 3 as Linfield College president, meets community members during a reception in November when he visited the college.
Linfield’s 19th president
Passionate about the liberal arts
T
homas L. Hellie may be the quintessential liberal arts graduate.
He’s curious about the world around him and
has a multitude of interests. He has changed careers several times, yet remained connected to higher education.
He’s a graduate of a small liberal arts college and has
been on the faculty at a similar institution. He’s been an
academic administrator and a foundation executive.
When he becomes Linfield College’s 19th president
on April 3, he will bring a broad background of academic experience and passion to the position.
“I believe fiercely in the transformational power of
undergraduate college education, especially liberal arts
education,” Hellie said. “I believe it both elevates and
frees us.”
Glenna Kruger ’68, chair of the Board of Trustees
that unanimously elected Hellie president in November,
said he understands the culture of Linfield and the link
between liberal arts and professional education. “Tom is
an excellent match for Linfield,” she said.
Bill Mackie ’71, professor of physics and member of
the search committee, said Hellie’s combination of experience at liberal arts colleges and his foundation and
fundraising background will serve him well at Linfield.
“His experience as a faculty member and his work
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with faculty give him a strong understanding of academic issues and concerns,” Mackie said.
Hellie, 52, was attracted to Linfield for a number of
reasons, including its reputation for academic excellence. He was intrigued by the college’s successful
undergraduate program with a liberal arts core coupled
with programs that are professionally oriented.
“I’m very interested in connecting the liberal arts to
the professions and I’m impressed by Linfield’s success
in that area,” he added. “I am also pleased that Linfield
programs include service to others. In some circles we
describe this as the call to vocation, the call to serve
others through our work as well as our volunteer
activity. I am eager to emphasize the relationship
between the philosophical values of the liberal arts and
the practical value of professional programs.”
Hellie is bright, intellectual and dedicated to students, say people who have known and worked with
him for years. He has a quiet, calm persona that belies
an energy and enthusiasm for his work. He is loyal,
generous and patient, and has a great sense of humor.
He’s not afraid to laugh at himself.
“He believes strongly in the liberal arts,” said
Robert Larson, professor of theatre at Luther College
and one of Hellie’s former teachers. “He will be very
on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, he had
no illusions that he would become a farmer.
Although he worked in the fields and tended the
livestock, both he and his father knew his heart just
wasn’t in it.
“I was never very good at it,” he said with a laugh.
“By the time I was in junior high, my dad and I agreed
that my future didn’t lie in farming.”
He wasn’t sure what his future would hold until as
a sophomore at tiny Cottonwood High School, he was
cast in a play and discovered a love of theatre. Although
he dreamed of fame on the stage, he quickly learned in
college that that wasn’t his destiny.
But doors did open for him at Luther College,
where he worked in virtually every aspect of theatre,
served as student body president, and sang and toured
with the college’s Nordic Choir.
“He was someone who had initiative and took on
special projects,” said Larson. “He was not afraid to
ask questions and pleasantly challenge faculty and
other people. He kept you on your toes as a faculty
member.”
By his sophomore year, Hellie realized there was a
scholarly side to theatre and that he could teach,
research and become involved in the literature and history of theatre. He soon set his sights on a Ph.D.
“I have very strong multidisciplinary interests – I’m
interested in a lot of things,” Hellie said recently. “I
became very interested in theatrical history, theory and
literature as well as performance. In graduate school I
took so many American history courses that I almost
qualified for a master’s degree in history; I was fascinated by how plays and theatres might reflect and shape the
society in which they occur.”
Hellie said his own liberal arts education helped
him adapt to different situations and circumstances. He
learned to be sensitive to other cultures and perspectives
and to think on his feet.
“When I was an undergraduate, we were asking
big questions about what matters in life, we were challenged to think about what we stood for, who we were
and what we were called to do,” he said. “My education didn’t always give me answers, but it helped me
identify and articulate the questions. It enriched my
life in many ways.”
The Thomas L. Hellie File
• B.A. (magna cum laude), Theatre, Luther College; M.A.,
Theatre History, University of Missouri-Columbia; Ph.D.
Theatre History, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Hiram
College, 1980-89
• Program Officer,Vice President, Associated Colleges of the
Midwest, 1989-99
• President and Executive Director, James S. Kemper
Foundation, 1999-2006
Selected appointments and service:
• Trustee, U.S. Business School of Prague (Czech Republic)
2000-2005
• Trustee, Lenoir-Rhyne College (North Carolina)
1997-2006
• Chair, Lake View Homeless Shelter Task Force, 1999
• Vice President, Lakeview Lutheran Church, 1998-99
Hobbies: long-distance runner, avid football and baseball
fan; enjoys theatre, cooking, wine, art, international travel;
collects fountain pens and reads history and modern fiction.
Hellie is interested in how the liberal arts can challenge students today through internships, experiential
learning and critical thinking, just as he was challenged as
an undergraduate. He firmly believes prospective students
and parents need a better understanding of how the liberal
arts prepare students for the professional world.
“We’ve already seen that careers and professions are
rapidly changing,” he added. “If someone is trained with a
particular skill, that’s well and good if it leads to a job. But
if they have not learned how to learn and have not developed a broad set of skills, they could be in trouble as their
field changes or disappears. Few careers move in straight
lines, and the majority of people are not working in their
original major field by the time they are 35 or 40.”
W
hen Hellie joined the faculty at
Hiram College in Ohio, he loved helping
students learn and grow.
“I find it very satisfying to work with students and
help them find what their interests are, to help fulfill
their potential,” he said. A long-distance runner, he
began training with the cross-country team and later
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served as an assistant cross-country coach. He became
an advocate for international education after taking students to London for a theatre course and he ultimately
chaired a task force at Hiram that dealt with international studies.
Even as a tenured faculty member in both theatre
and English at Hiram, Hellie found himself drawn to
administration. He enjoyed the give and take of faculty
governance and strategic planning. He was also curious
about other disciplines and thought his many interests
might be suited to an administrative position where he
could work with people in different fields.
“I wanted to test myself, to see what else I might be able
to do and to take on new challenges,” he said. “Whenever
I’ve changed jobs, it’s been to take a risk, try something new
and see if I can make a difference in a new place.”
The Associated Colleges of the Midwest, a consortium of 14 leading liberal arts colleges, provided just
such a challenge.
There Hellie broadened his international experience by administering off-campus study programs at a
dozen sites on four continents, including programs in
Costa Rica, London and Florence. He created an innovative anthropology/biology program in Tanzania. He
Olds looks forward to return to campus life
Julie Olds acknowledges
that she lives somewhat
anonymously in her local
neighborhood in Chicago.
She anticipates that
changing once she moves to
McMinnville and her husband, Tom Hellie, begins his
duties as Linfield College
Julie Olds
president.
“Our neighborhood has a small-town feel, and we
like that kind of interaction,” she said. “We recognize
people and notice changes. But I am used to people
not recognizing me or really caring what I do. I guess
that may change!”
Despite the celebrity that may come because of
her new status, Olds is excited about moving to
McMinnville and living on campus. She and Hellie
lived adjacent to campus when he was a professor at
Hiram College and she was working for a children’s
theatre company.
“I loved living on campus,” she said. “I love the
atmosphere and I look forward to getting involved in
campus life.”
Since then, Olds has reinvented herself in several
different careers. After completing her bachelor’s
degree in theatre at Hiram and her master's of fine arts
at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,
Ohio, she worked as an actress in the Cleveland area
for several years.
“When Tom got the position in Chicago, I decided it was time to get a real job,” she said with a laugh.
“I had been a working actress in Cleveland, but once
you start in a new town, you have to start from
scratch.”
She took a sales job in a wallpaper and blinds store
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and worked her way up, eventually managing several
stores. Looking for a new challenge, she became director of housekeeping and management in a nursing
home. Although she didn’t like the housekeeping and
laundry part, she found she loved working with senior
citizens. She moved into admissions and marketing and
ultimately secured her license as a nursing home
administrator. She’s now director of assisted living at a
senior community and she loves the position.
“Some people have a knack with kids. I guess I
have a knack with seniors,” she said. “I just love working with them. They have so many interesting stories,
but they also have a different outlook on things.”
Olds doesn’t yet know if she will pursue that career
once she moves to McMinnville, but she does plan to
play an active role in the life of the Linfield and
McMinnville communities.
Olds and Hellie will be accompanied to
McMinnville by their gray-bearded cat, Falstaff, one of
many cats they’ve had over the years, all named after
characters from Shakepeare’s plays. Olds also vows to
learn how to cook, once she arrives.
“Tom has been the main cook in our family, and
he’s quite good,” she said. “I’ve always been the ‘throw
the leftovers in a pot and add cheese’ sort of cook. This
should be interesting, and I hope the smoke detectors
in the house aren’t too sensitive!”
An avid runner, she has competed in seven
marathons and may take a crack at next fall’s Portland
Marathon. She, like her husband, loves to read – contemporary fiction and mystery novels – as well as trying
new restaurants, attending theatre productions and
gallery hopping. And she’s a big fan of blues-based rock
and roll, so sounds of AC/DC or Aerosmith may be
emanating from the president’s house.
– Mardi Mileham
Marvin Henberg, left, interim president, introduces Thomas L. Hellie and Julie Olds at a campus and community reception held during their visit to Linfield in January.
closed the consortium’s program in Yugoslavia because
of political unrest and established a new site at Palacky
University in the Czech Republic. Not only did ACM
students study there, but Hellie arranged for a number
of the Czech faculty to study at the University of
Chicago. In 1996 Palacky University awarded him its
highest honor, the Pametní
ˇ Medal, for his contributions
to Czech higher education.
“After the revolution, these universities were facing all
kinds of problems,” Hellie said. “Previously, intellectuals
had to adhere to Communist doctrine in order to become
professors. After the Soviet invasion in 1968, they had no
familiarity with what was going on in the West. Through
ACM, we were able to arrange for Czech faculty to meet
with American professors, study at the University of
Chicago and rebuild their academic resources.”
Hellie also organized and led faculty development
projects and conferences at ACM and dealt with diversity
issues. He helped secure grant support to assist students of
color in considering graduate school and academic careers.
Elizabeth Hayford, president of ACM and Hellie’s
boss for 10 years, said he will make a good president
because of his excellent combination of organizational,
managerial and personal skills.
“He doesn’t impose his own ideas,” she said. “He listens first, he offers his own perspective, he is genuinely
consultative and open to suggestions and ideas. You can
always be confident in his judgment. He is very careful
and thorough and looks at all sides.”
His personal skills are the most important, she said.
“He’s a very good colleague at all levels,” she added.
“It became even more clear when he left ACM that
everyone he worked with liked and respected him.They
were very articulate about their appreciation.”
A
s much as he loved his work at
ACM, after 10 years Hellie was ready for a
new challenge. He was attracted to the position of president and executive director of the James S.
Kemper Foundation for two reasons. First, for the
opportunity to award funds rather than request them,
and second, for the Kemper Scholars Program, which
would once again allow him to mentor and supervise
students.
While at ACM, Hellie had interacted with deans,
faculty and presidents from liberal arts colleges, learning how different colleges operate and gaining a
perspective on effective and innovative programs. At
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Kemper, he broadened those experiences by working
with some of the nation’s top undergraduate business
schools and alongside senior corporate officers of
Kemper Insurance. As executive director of the foundation, Hellie also frequently met with fundraisers
and gained a strong understanding of what is effective
and not effective in seeking funding for projects.
“I’ve had opportunities to interact with corporate
and business leaders whom I would not have met in my
academic role,” he added. “It’s given me a better appreciation, respect and understanding of the business sector.
I hope that experience will make me more effective in
representing Linfield to the outside world.”
But his favorite part of the job was administering
the Kemper Scholars Program for 80 undergraduates
at 19 participating colleges. He served as a mentor to
some of the scholars, a teaching opportunity he had
missed since leaving Hiram.
Matt Huels, one of the students he mentored, has remained
close to Hellie since completing
the program. He said Hellie took
an active interest in his development, both personally and professionally.
“He is a powerful listener
and a compassionate person,”
Huels said. “He is a man of faith
who works very hard at what he
does. He will take an interest in
the people he works with, and
will take a particular interest in
the students.”
Huels and others who know Hellie well agree that
his greatest asset is his ability to ask probing questions
and listen to what people have to say.
“At Kemper, he was a leader who learned what
people were doing and what they had to contribute,”
Huels said. “Then he was able to add his own flair and
his own vision for the foundation. He would be the
first to tell you it wasn't on his own – he had a great
staff which got him up to speed. He doesn’t take himself or his staff for granted.”
Beth Tyler, who worked for Hellie at ACM and now
serves as dean of students at Lake Forest College in
Illinois, said he takes the time to learn about an organization and the people with whom he is working.
“He gives a tremendous amount of time to understanding the issues and the people he’s working with,” she
said. “He very much recognizes the value of empowering
the people who work with him and for him. I admire his
humility. I think humility is one of the most important
management traits, and he personifies that.”
H
ellie and his wife, Julie Olds, are
not strangers to McMinnville. Before being
approached about the Linfield presidency,
they had vacationed in the area, pursuing their interest in wine. They were enchanted with McMinnville,
Oregon and the Pacific Northwest and considered it
as a possible place to retire.
They are excited about coming to McMinnville and
about moving into the president’s house. They rented a
house adjacent to Hiram College when he taught there.
They look forward to taking an active role in the
community as well as immersing themselves in the life
of the college.
“I loved being part of the college community and
I’m looking forward to returning to a residential college,”
Hellie said. “I’m excited to live next to students
and near so many other people who are part of the
community. And it’s a great commute!”
They anticipate little difficulty adjusting to the community. Even
though their address is Chicago,
they consider themselves part of a
small neighborhood community
where they interact with local residents and business owners.
Although traditionally college
presidents begin their term in the
summer, Hellie opted to come in
April to have a chance to meet this
year’s graduating seniors and to
engage with the faculty prior to
commencement. His initial goal is
to get to know the institution as well as he possibly can,
including students, staff, faculty, trustees and alumni.
“To understand the institution, I need to do a lot
of listening, and that’s going to be important during
my first few months,” he said. “I need to hear from as
many people as I can. Once I do that, I will be better
prepared to enunciate goals and work with others to
devise a plan to meet those goals.
“The last two presidents and everyone else at the
college have dramatically strengthened the college
and elevated its profile,” Hellie said. “This is a great
opportunity for any new college president. I just happen to be the lucky one.”
– Mardi Mileham
“I believe fiercely in
the transformational
power of undergraduate
college education, especially
liberal arts education.
I believe it both elevates
and frees us.”
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Dr. Hellie is eager to hear from alumni and others
about their Linfield experiences and their views about the
college today. He can be contacted at newprez@linfield.edu.
If he receives an overwhelming response, he may be
unable to personally respond to all messages.
Past presidents keep active lives
Vivian A. Bull
1992-2005
The few months since her
retirement as Linfield College
president have been anything but
restful for Vivian Bull.
With her trademark energy, she
continues flying coast-to-coast, consulting, mentoring and serving the
greater community.
Bull is working with regional accreditation commissions and continues her affiliation with Africa University in
Zimbabwe. She is an active member of the Board of Higher
Education of the United Methodist Church, chairing the
investment committee, serving on the University Senate and
chairing an international peer evaluation committee. She has
been nominated to chair the board for the WF Albright
Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem, where she chairs the
investment committee. She is also mentoring some new
presidents and a newly structured board of trustees.
Bull and husband, Robert, former director of the
Drew Institute for Archaeological Research, are finishing
up a number of archaeological projects and plan to return
to Jerusalem to continue their work on publications.
Gordon C. Bjork
1968-1974
Gordon Bjork, Linfield’s 16th
president, accepted the position at age
32, moving his young family into the
president’s home in 1968.
After leaving Linfield in 1974,
Bjork went on to a distinguished academic career at Claremont McKenna
College in California, where he was
the first Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Economics and
taught until his retirement in 2003. In addition to teaching,
Bjork created BankSim, a commercial banking course for
which he was twice honored by the Freedoms Foundation.
Bjork was appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency’s
National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and
Technology. He is the author of four books on economics and
has contributed to 10 others.
He and his wife, Susan, live in Santa Barbara, Calif., near
their four children and eight grandchildren.
Cornelius H. Siemens served as interim president from 1974
to 1975. He died in 1978.
Charles U. Walker
1975-1992
Charles Walker has maintained
an extraordinary commitment to
community service since retiring.
During his 17 years as Linfield’s
leader, Walker built a reputation for
community involvement, and his retirement has proven no different. He has
been prominently involved in the Ford
Family Foundation, serving as vice chair of the board and helping to design the foundation’s two major initiatives: the Ford
Scholars Program and the Ford Institute for Community
Building. He is now a special advisor to the board.
Walker is chair of the Oregon Cultural Trust, which
makes grants to cultural organizations in addition to raising
funds toward a $200 million permanent endowment.
His interest in education led to Walker’s involvement in the
Chalkboard Project, designed to help strengthen K-12 education
in Oregon.The project is run by Foundations for a Better Oregon,
which he chairs, and is made up of the Ford Family Foundation,
the Meyer Memorial Trust, the Collins Foundation, the Oregon
Community Foundation and the JeldWen Foundation.
Walker, a classical music enthusiast, also started Neskowin
Chamber Music in 1994 and combines his interest in international education and travel to lead tours around the world. He
is president of his local library board, serves as a board member
of the Tillamook County Futures Council and works as an
evaluator for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Winthrop W. Dolan
1968 and 1974
Win Dolan, professor emeritus of
mathematics, took the reins of Linfield
on two separate occasions, serving as
interim president in 1968 and 1974.
Following his retirement from
Linfield in 1974, Dolan continued
teaching part-time for 10 years. He
served on the Linfield Board of
Trustees until 1989 and since then as a trustee emeritus. He
served on the housing authority, the school board budget
committee and a county land-use committee. He appeared in
more than 20 plays and musicals at McMinnville’s Gallery
Theatre. He also founded Pioneer Pantry, a senior lunch program backed by local churches, which operated prior to the
opening of the McMinnville Senior Center. Throughout the
years, Dolan has remained an active member of the First
Baptist Church, singing in the choir for more than 50 years.
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Mr. Sim Man
Bringing reality into the lab
good outcome, you need to move quickly through a standard of care, a protocol that interrupts the physiological
process that is happening and may stop the patient from
having a major heart attack.”
If a nurse does not pick up on the subtleties of the
changes a patient is undergoing, a situation may become
life threatening. Learning to identify those subtleties in the
early stages is critical.
“Eric” is more than just a mannequin that talks and
breathes and has a cardiac rhythm,Taylor said. He becomes
virtually real through the actors in the control room, who
portray Eric and who can change his symptoms with a
click of the computer mouse. Students can be directed to
respond to family members who are in the room, or to call
either the laboratory for tests or the doctor for consultation
and collaboration. In some cases, a more experienced nurse
is called or sent in to help them control or understand the
situation.
“It’s adding more reality to the environment,” Taylor
said. “Students are making clinical judgments based on
their assessments in a changing situation.They are learning
to communicate as team members and consult with other
professionals. It’s about applying the theory and skills they
have been developing in their classes and labs in an environment that is as close to real as their clinical experiences.
The difference is that if they make a mistake in the simulation room, there is no harm to a live patient.”
A critical part of developing the simulation lab learning is making sure that it fits into the curriculum, Taylor
said.“It’s not about trying to add another thing for students
to do, but rather how we integrate it into student learning
to achieve curriculum outcomes.
Jana Taylor, second from right, professor of nursing at the Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing, reviews the “patient’s” charts and instructions with, from
left, Evelyn Duran ’06, Celeste Chou ’07 and George Moore ’07 in the new Simulation Lab.
John Gonzales complains of acute chest pain immediately after his pre-op examination for arthroscopic knee
surgery.
“My chest is getting tight, and it’s hard to get a deep
breath,” he tells a team of three nurses examining him.
“The pain is over my breastbone and it feels like a heavy
weight is on my chest.”
His breathing speeds up; he becomes agitated and asks
more questions, and his wife expresses concern. He’s given
oxygen, his blood pressure is checked, and the doctor is
called. After receiving medication, Mr. Gonzales’s pain
improves, but his surgery is delayed and more tests and
treatments are ordered.
And then the exercise is over. Mr. Gonzales is really
Eric, a mannequin who talks, breathes, accepts an IV and
can simulate various medical situations. “Mr. Sim Man” is
part of the latest trend in healthcare education, providing
students with realistic experiences in health crises without
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fear of making a critical mistake that could harm a patient.
The Nursing Simulation Lab at the Linfield-Good
Samaritan School of Nursing was opened last spring under
the leadership of Jana Taylor, professor of nursing on the
Portland Campus, and Georgia Maudsley, laboratory
coordinator, in collaboration with the other nursing faculty. The lab was created, inpart, with a grant from the
Oregon Simulation Alliance, a statewide group that
works with the Governor’s Healthcare Workforce
Initiative.Taylor is a member of the Governing Council of
the Oregon Simulation Alliance. Taylor and Maudsley are
both members of the Legacy-Linfield Simulation Program
Steering Committee, working closely with Legacy Health
System as they develop a simulation curriculum.
“The most valuable part is that we can direct students’
learning and outcomes by selecting situations that will
expose them to various scenarios, such as a patient having
chest pains,” Taylor said. “In order for a patient to have a
Amanda Wissel ’06, center, calls the physician for instructions while Grace Hanjan ’06
checks the “patient’s” IV and Leah Carter ’06 monitors the blood pressure during a
simulation. Each group of students is given a different scenario in which a patient is
experiencing some difficulty.
Aaron De Clerck, end user support specialist on the Portland Campus, and Georgia
Maudsley, nursing laboratory coordinator, control Mr. Sim Man’s symptoms from a
control room with a two-way mirror.
“We look at key patient care concepts and the development of the nurse’s role and thread those throughout
the levels of the curriculum with increasing complexity,” Taylor said. “The further they go in their courses, the
more complexity you put into the environment.”
A key component is the debriefing session that follows
each simulation and helps students develop skills for reflecting on their practice. With faculty gently and skillfully
guiding the discussion, students talk about what went right
and what went wrong during the simulation. Reviewing a
videotape of the simulation experience during the debriefing can also be useful in helping students critique their
interactions and skill performance.
“The idea is to help them think through what happened and what lessons they take away from the experience,” Taylor said.
Lauren Jensen ’06 was one of the first students to use
the simulation lab.
“It felt real, because he’s breathing and talking back to
you,” she said. “I felt the same way I did when I was in the
hospital doing a procedure on a patient for the first time.”
The scenarios in the Simulation Lab stress critical
thinking and team work, Jensen said.
“It’s about knowing what to do under pressure, which
is what I think a lot of nurses experience,” she said.
Watching the videotape of the session was valuable, she
added.
“I learned a lot about what I could have done better,”
she said. “But overall, even if we made mistakes (in simulation), we weren’t in a real hospital where the stakes are a
lot higher.”
– Mardi Mileham
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Faculty books now available
Out of Town, by Lex Runciman,
professor of English
(Cloudbank Books/Bedbug Press, 2004)
Out of Town is a collection of 50 poems and
one of three books in the Northwest Poetry
Series. The poems tell stories of family and
growing up, of celebrating an anniversary and
snorkeling in Hawaii. Readers recall learning
to ride a bike, imagine the pain of a broken
eardrum and look back on a brother’s life-saving operation. This may or may not be a glimpse of Runciman’s
life – and that’s just as he intended.
Women’s Political Discourse:
A Twenty-first Century Perspective,
by Brenda DeVore Marshall, professor
of theatre and communication arts
(Rowman & Littlefield October 2005.
Co-authored with Molly Mayhead)
Women’s Political Discourse profiles women in
the most highly visible political offices today,
highlighting their communication strategies.
Following an overview of women’s political discourse from
the early 20th century, the book features select women
governors, representatives and senators of the past several
decades, from Jeannette Rankin — the first woman elected
to the U.S. House of Representatives — to Hillary
Rodham Clinton. The authors compare women’s and
men’s political communication techniques and include
helpful lists of the women governmental leaders of the
20th and the 21st centuries. Exploring women’s unique
approaches to governing, Women’s Political Discourse seeks
to lay out innovative approaches to leadership.
Prophetic Politics: Christian Social
Movements and American Democracy,
by David Gutterman, assistant professor
of political science
(Cornell University Press, June 2005)
“What are the relationships among religion,
politics and narratives? What makes prophetic
political narratives congenial or hostile to
democratic political life? Gutterman explores
the prophetic politics of four 20th and 21st
century American Christian social movements: the Rev.
Billy Sunday and his vision of ‘muscular Christianity’;
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement;
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the conservative Christian male organization Promise
Keepers; and the progressive antipoverty organization Call
to Renewal. Gutterman develops a theory based on the
work of Hannah Arendt and others and employs this
framework to analyze expressions of the prophetic impulse
in the political narrative of the United States. In the
process, he examines timely issues about the tense and
intricate relationship between religion and politics.”
[Cornell University Press]
Freedom of the Press: Rights and
Liberties Under the Law, by Nancy C.
Cornwell, associate professor of mass
communication
(A B C-CLIO, December 2004)
“From the abolitionist press of the Civil War
era and the Sedition Act of World War I to
gag orders, invasion of privacy, obscenity,
news rack regulation, copyright laws and
cyberspace, this work chronicles the U.S. judicial system's
struggle to balance freedom of the press with a host of
competing rights. Students, legal professionals and general
readers will discover that development of the free press
clause of the Constitution is more about fine-tuning the
balance among competing rights, needs and responsibilities
than believing that the tension may ever be resolved.”
[Barnes and Noble]
Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power:
Reconciling Confucianism and Capitalism,
1830-1885, by John Sagers, assistant
professor of history
(Palgrave Macmillan, February 2006)
The trans-Meiji Restoration story of the
ideological transformation that made modern capitalism possible in Japan is the focus
of Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power. After
1868, former samurai from the domain of Satsuma
became key economic policy makers in Japan’s Meiji
government. Within two decades, Meiji officials cleared
away much of the Tokugawa feudal system and established capitalist institutions to facilitate Japan’s industrial
revolution. To understand the intellectual foundations of
these sweeping reforms, this study traces the evolution of
Satsuma economic thought that overcame traditional
Confucian moral bias against commerce and increasingly
regarded market activity as a force that could be managed
for the wealth and power of the state.
Century farms carry on tradition
Swedish immigrants Frank and
Anna Jernstedt were newly married
when they moved to Carlton in the
late 1800s, bought a cow and a plow,
and began farming.
Now, more than a century later,
their grandchildren, including Gordon
Jernstedt ’60, continue to cultivate
their 640 acres in Carlton.The success
of the Jernstedt Century Farm, and
other farms like it, is the focus of a
Linfield College research project.
Tom Love, professor of anthropology, and two students researched
more than 90 Yamhill County century farms – those that have remained
in the same family for more than 100
years – to determine the secret to
their endurance.
“They’re doing something right
because they’re still going 100 years
later,” Love said. “What is it that’s led
to this longevity?
With the support of a Linfield
collaborative research grant, Love and
sociology students Kelly Stewart and
Sirpa Peterson, both ’06, decided to
find out. They have spent two years
investigating environmental, economic, social and cultural factors.
Stewart and Peterson surveyed the
century farms registered in Yamhill
County, conducting phone and
personal interviews to piece together
family histories. They combed
libraries, phone books and the Internet
to find census records, marriage licenses and birth and death certificates.
“Some of the homesteads are
absolutely gorgeous,” said Stewart,
who was raised in Banks, and whose
godfather owns a century farm.
“These are the first farm families to
settle here, so to learn about that history has been a great opportunity.”
Tracing the family trees proved
particularly satisfying for Peterson,
who grew up on a farm near Dallas.
“It’s really interesting to find out
that a lot of these families are intertwined,” she said. “In many cases,
they know just as much history about
their neighbors’ farms as their own.”
Stewart and Peterson also mapped
the farms using geographic information systems (GIS) technology. The
overall view let them analyze geographical aspects that might affect productivity and provide clues to the
farms’ success.
They found about one-third of
the farms on record are no longer in
existence – one is a trailer park; another, a housing development – and they
reported that information to the
Oregon Historical Society, which
maintains the state’s master list.
Love and the students have begun
to draw a number of conclusions,
which they are summarizing in an
online report to be made available this
summer at www.linfield.edu/soan/.
They found one of the leading indicators to farms’ longevity is location.
Farms that produced multiple crops
weathered the agricultural markets
over the years. Another factor is the
families’ involvement with farming
organizations, which instilled a love of
farming in children who would eventually take over the farms.
“Farming is important to the
families,” Stewart said. “They’ve
Sirpa Peterson, left, and Kelly Stewart, both ’06, spent two
years studying Yamhill County Century Farms and meeting
with farmers including Gordon Jernstedt ’60 of Carlton.
passed on ideas from generation to
generation about working hard and
preserving the family farm.”
Students also learned the significance of agriculture in Yamhill County.
For Jernstedt, the research project is tracking a valuable aspect of
local history.
“This farm is part of the history
of this area,” he said. “The people
who lived here, whose farms are into
the second century, are part of the
development of Yamhill County.”
– Laura Davis
Swedish immigrants Frank and Anna Jernstedt, center, began farming in Carlton in the late 1800s, with
their children Ernest, left, and Albin, on bike. The Jernstedts had four more children, Fred, Maurice,
Signe and Leonard. A hired hand is pictured on the right.
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Fulbright Winners
Fulbright Winners
Fulbrights lead to self-discovery
Three alumni share insights into how Fulbright awards changed their lives.
Fulbright winners from top include Angela Jamison ’99,
who spent a year in Nicaragua; Seth Otto '00, who spent
a year in Bolivia, and Sarah Monfort ’03, right, who was
in Croatia, shown here with Bethany Hackman, another
U.S. student studying in Croatia.
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Fulbright fellowship winners
expect to discover new ideas and
cultures. But Linfield recipients
have found the award can be a
ticket to self-discovery as well. A
Fulbright opens doors. It opens
minds.
Since 1999, 10 Linfield students
have received Fulbrights for the
year following their graduation.
That exceeds the number awarded
during those years at most of the
other colleges and universities in
Oregon. But the program’s true
impact is told not in numbers but in
experiences.
Sarah Monfort ’03 went to
Croatia to write a novel and
returned with a new passion, conflict resolution. For Seth Otto ’00, a
year in Bolivia instilled a commitment to urban planning. And a
Fulbright in Nicaragua led Angela
Jamison ’99 to a new career path in
research.
Monfort’s look at the impact
of strife led her to attend an international conference on peace and
reconciliation last summer in
Switzerland. She then entered a
master’s degree program in international peace and conflict resolution at Arcadia University in
Pennsylvania.
Her novel, now nearing completion, focuses on Vukovar before,
during and after the Serbian siege
of 1991. “It fascinated me to know
why people stayed in this town,
why they returned when the economy, everything they had known
and made, had been destroyed, and
what it was like for them,” she said.
Otto’s experience in Bolivia
was eye-opening in a different way.
“The Fulbright exposed me to the
harsh realities of how international
development works,” he said. “Local
people there had a great amount of
skepticism and distrust of outsiders
based on years of programs that didn’t work or were even exploitative.”
In December, Otto completed
a master’s degree in community and
regional planning at the University
of Texas at Austin. He said he has
chosen urban planning as a good
way to be involved in his own community, “making the world better
by starting where I live.” Otto said
he still believes in the value of
cross-cultural exchange. “I do feel
like there’s so much to learn from
other communities and societies
and cultures, but it’s important to
me to keep my own house clean.”
Like Otto and Monfort,
Jamison found her Fulbright a lifechanging experience. She had
grown up in rural Montana and,
before entering Linfield, “had little
awareness of the world beyond the
split-rail fence of the ranch I grew
up on,” she said. “I was hungry to
learn as much as possible about the
world.”
Jamison spent her year in
Nicaragua studying the political
history of the press there – how
political opinion was expressed and
how the press was used as a weapon
in political conflict. A philosophy
and communications double major
at Linfield, she had planned to
become a foreign correspondent
covering war zones and hot spots.
Fulbright, she said, set her on
another path.
“I wanted to see if I had it in
me to be a researcher,” said Jamison,
who is now completing a Ph.D. in
sociology at UCLA.
Although she found herself
spending many lonely hours poring
over archives, she said, one of her
biggest discoveries was that “academic research actually is not detached
from the world but important to it.”
And hanging out with Nicaraguans
she met proved even more valuable
than the academic research at times,
she said.
Similarly, Monfort found
engaging locals, and winning their
trust, vital to the research for her
novel. That sometimes meant
devoting much of a day to having
coffee with people, she said.
Laying the groundwork before
going abroad can smooth the way for
a Fulbright project, Otto said. “I
think the more connections you can
make and networking you can do in
advance … the stronger your experience will be,” he said. “Another point
would be to have realistic expectations about what you’re going to
accomplish. You’re going to learn a
lot about your subject, but it’s important to be open to other areas of
interest as they come up.”
Several of the Fulbright recipients credited Deborah Olsen,
Linfield’s Fulbright Program advisor, for helping them formulate
their project proposals and navigate
the arduous application process.
“Debbie Olsen was the one
who made it happen for me,”
Jamison said. “It only came about
because of her guidance and her
vision and keeping me on task.”
Olsen brainstorms with applicants and suggests ideas. “I help students imagine what is possible,” she
said. “The ones who succeed are
creative and can run with a good
idea. These people have to be very
independent and enormously
resourceful, especially in developing countries,” she added.
Despite its demands and
adjustments, Fulbrighters heartily
endorse the program. “The things I
learned were literally priceless – the
world I got to see and live in, the
friends I made,” Monfort said. “It
really did open a lot of doors.”
The Fulbright Program, initiated by the late Sen. J. William
Fulbright, is the largest U.S.-based
international exchange program in
study, research and teaching. Its
main goal, established by Congress
in 1946, is to increase mutual understanding between U.S. citizens and
people of other nations. For more
information on the program, visit
www.fulbrightonline.org.
– Beth Rogers Thompson
10 Linfield students awarded Fulbright grants since 1999
Angela Jamison, 1999-2000
University of Arizona and Pima Community
College.
“A History of Nicaraguan Print Journalism: 1830s
through 1980s”; now attending graduate school at
UCLA.
Paul Beck, 2003-2004
Staci Bryson, 2000-2001
“Germany’s Great Gamble: The Euro”; now an analyst for Goldman, Sachs & Co., Salt Lake City, Utah
Germany, teaching assistantship; now at Princeton
Theological Seminary.
Jennifer Cregg, 2003-2004
Seth Otto, 2000-2001
Germany, teaching assistantship; now attends graduate school at Heidelberg University.
“Contemporary Indigenous Social Movements in
Bolivia: Ideology, Class and Ethnicity”; recently
completed master’s degree at the University of Texas.
Sarah Monfort, 2003-2004
Lynsey Farrell, 2001-2002
Croatia, “Vukovar Cellars: A novel about Vukovar and
its people;” now attends graduate school at Arcadia
University in Pennsylvania.
“Education and Dependency: The Future of
Harambee Schools in Kenya”; now attending graduate school at Boston University.
Alexis Lien, 2005-2006
Melissa Koosmann, 2001-2002
Maria Davis, 2005-2006
Austria, “Zweisprachige Dichtung/Dual-language
Poetry”; now writing poetry and teaching at the
Iceland, “Ice-Volcano Interaction During SheetFlow Eruptions Under Thick Glaciers.”
Austria, “Turkish Women Immigrants in Vienna.”
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Grant helps broaden perspectives
Festival brings music, restoration
Fulbright winner Alexis Lien ’05 is spending the 2005-2006 academic
year teaching, studying and conducting research in Austria.
Schöne Grüsse aus Wien!
Greetings from Vienna, Austria –
the land of Mozart, Freud,
Wienerschnitzel and The Sound of
Music! The weather outside has
dropped below freezing (yet again),
and I have retreated to one of the
countless coffee houses to warm
myself with a signature Viennese
latte, the Wiener Mélange. This
activity has proven to be a favorite
pastime of mine since arriving in
Austria.
Although there is some truth to
the long-held stereotypes about
Austria, there is definitely more to
this small country, situated in the
heart of Europe, than coffee and
classical music. Vienna is not only a
metropolis that maintains a smalltown feel, but also a diverse cultural capital with an amazing emphasis
on music and art.
My grant consists of three parts:
1) teaching English part-time in an
Austrian high school, 2) studying at
the University of Vienna and 3)
pursuing an independent research
project. Through small-scale diplomatic efforts, I have been able to see
the impact of establishing personal
relationships in broadening people’s
perspectives about other nations
and cultures.
I have enjoyed the teaching
aspect of my grant immensely.
Through teaching my students
about America, I have come to
more critically understand, and also
appreciate, my own country. In a
lesson covering the recent citywide
election in Vienna, I was forced to
examine and explain fundamental
theoretical aspects of the American
political system, and offer this as a
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contrast to the Austrian system. In
turn, my students began to more
critically examine the system to
which they are accustomed.
Between attending and teaching classes, I am also conducting an
independent research project on
the political representation of
Turkish immigrant women in
Vienna. In addition to utilizing the
enormous collection at the
Austrian National Library, I have
been discussing my research with
Sieglinde Rosenberger, a political
science professor at the University
of Vienna who has agreed to serve
as my mentor for this project. I am
also building contacts with women’s
groups in Vienna that will be
invaluable to my research.
My experiences at Linfield
were essential in preparing me for
this experience. First, the emphasis
Linfield places on studying abroad
helped me to be confident about
spending an entire year abroad.
During my four years at Linfield,
I spent a semester in Vienna, a semester in Washington, D.C., and a
January Term in Russia. All of these
experiences helped spark my interest
in exploring new cultures and
spurred me on to apply for postgraduate opportunities abroad. Also,
the research opportunities I had with
Dawn Nowacki, Linfield associate
professor of political science, prepared me to undertake a large-scale
independent research project.
I am thankful for everyone at
Linfield who assisted me with the
Fulbright application process. All of
the support and encouragement I
received from the Linfield community was invaluable, and very much
appreciated!
Alexis Lien ’05, shown here at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, is spending the academic year in Austria.
In addition to teaching at a high school and studying at the University of Vienna, Lien is researching the
political and social position of Turkish immigrant women. She honed her focus while studying in Vienna
as a sophomore through Linfield’s study abroad program.
Sylvain Frémaux and Jill Timmons launched the
Festival d'Herbilly, a music festival to raise funds
for a church restoration in France.
Jill Timmons understands the
healing power of music.
Timmons, professor of music at
Linfield College, along with her husband, Sylvain Frémaux, the founding
director of the Linfield Chamber
Orchestra, are bringing music and
restoration to the tiny hamlet of
Herbilly in central France. And their
work is paving the way for Linfield
student pianists to study there.
The two have started a music
festival, which will also fund
restoration of a 12th century church
damaged during World War II. On
the night of May 8, 1944, German
artillery shot down a fully loaded
RAF Lancaster bomber over
Herbilly, leaving a large crater in the
town. Thirteen people died and
many lost their homes. St. Aignan
church and its bell tower were damaged but remained standing.
Timmons and Frémaux’s summer home in Herbilly, one of the
few structures to survive the bombing, is located across the street from
the church. Both buildings are historical monuments.
“When we bought the house in
2003, villagers asked us when we
were going to bring music to the
town,” said Timmons, who along
with Frémaux has worked extensively in France over the years.
That was all it took. Last summer
Timmons and Frémaux launched the
Festival d’Herbilly, a music festival to
be held annually to raise money for
the church restoration. The festival is
sponsored by the city of Mer and the
Association de Saint Aignan.
Timmons and Laura Klugherz, a violist from Colgate University, performed at the first fund raising concert in July. Blüthner Pianos of
Leipzig, Germany, provided a grand
piano free of charge.
For the first time in the villagers’
memory, music filled the church.
“It’s something to see an
ancient church in this countryside
setting,”Timmons said. “Each time I
walk up the heavily worn stone
steps of the church, I realize that
someone from the 12th century
once walked up these same steps.”
The festival will host the
Linfield Summer Piano Institute, a
four-day immersion for pianists
previously held in Newport.
Timmons hopes to include Linfield
students in the institute, and future
festivals will feature a variety of
international artists.
The Festival d’Herbilly has
served as a catalyst for a physical
restoration, but it also symbolizes a
partnership among the French,
German and American cultures,
Timmons said.
“This international group has
come together, not only to restore a
12th century tower, but in celebration of music and culture in this
rural region,” Timmons said.
– Laura Davis
Catch a preview of the 2006
St. Aignan church concert.
Jill Timmons, piano, and Laura Klugherz,
viola, will perform on April 30 at 8 p.m.
in Melrose Auditorium at Linfield.
St. Aignan Church, located in Herbilly in central France, was built in the 12th century, around the same
time as the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
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‘Cat Tracks
Athletes place academics, community first
Not even favored to win their own league, the 1966 Linfield baseball team overachieved all the way to the NAIA national baseball championship.
Brosius, ‘66 baseball team inducted into Hall of Fame
Former Linfield baseball standout Scott Brosius ’02
and the 1966 national championship baseball team
were inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.
Brosius of McMinnville spent 11 seasons in the major
leagues, seven with Oakland and four with the New York
Yankees. He was the most valuable player of the 1998
World Series and a Gold Glove winner in 1999.
The 1966 Linfield baseball team, coached by Roy
Helser ’41 (deceased), won the NAIA baseball title, the
school’s first national championship. Team members
include Frank Bake ’66 of Portland; Jay Bandonis ’68
of Salem; Steve Colette ’69 (deceased); Gary Cox ’68
of Redmond; Bob Daggett ’67 of Portland; Terry
Durham ’67 of Hillsboro; Jay Gustafson ’66 of
Portland; John Hart ’68 of Victoria, B.C.; Art Larrance
’66 of Portland; Val Lewis ’68 of Brentwood, Calif.;
John Lee ’67 of Portland; Frank Molek ’68 of Eden
Prairie, Minn.; Wayne Petersen ’66 of Tualatin; Rocco
Reed ’68 of Salem; Tom Rohlffs ’69 of Hillsboro;
Dennis Schweitzer ’66 of Deer Park, Wash.; Barry
Stenlund ’72 of Woodburn; Alan Wells ’67 of Salem;
and Stu Young ’67 of Sunriver.
Elliott continues to garner awards
Brett Elliott ’05, Linfield College
record-breaking quarterback and first
team all-American, has received shelves
of awards during the past two years.
His most recent additions are two
prized NCAA Division III awards –
the Melberger Award, given to the top
individual player, and the Gagliardi
Trophy, given annually to the outstanding football player in the division.
For the second time, he was also
named the Ad Rutschman Small
College Male Athlete of the Year at the
Oregon Sports Awards.
Elliott led the Wildcats to a 10-1
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record and their fourth consecutive
appearance in the West Regional final.
He ended his Linfield career with 8,614
passing yards and 110 touchdowns.
Elliott, who earned a communication degree in December, displayed
leadership on campus and in the
community while a student at
Linfield. He worked on the student
newspaper, The Linfield Review, and
radio station, KSLC. He served a summer internship with KFXX radio in
Portland, was a freshman colloquium
speaker, and volunteered as a weekly Brett Elliott ‘05 takes time to sign autographs
tutor and mentor.
following a game.
They are as successful in the
classroom and community as they
are on the playing field.
A number of Linfield College
athletes have recently been recognized for their academic achievement as well as their athletic
accomplishment, earning the distinction of Academic All-American.
Lindsay Harksen ’06, volleyball, and
Dwight Donaldson ’06, football,
have each been selected to ESPN
The Magazine Academic AllAmerica teams. Harksen was also
named Academic All-American of
the Year for the college division,
Runners Harrison Wilson ’08 and
Whitney Mentaberry ’08 were both
named Academic All-Americans by
the NCAA Division III Cross
Country Association. In addition,
both the men’s and women’s cross
country teams earned academic
team awards.
More than just excelling as athletes, these students are set apart by
their commitment, to scholarship
and community. Many Linfield athletes can be found tutoring classmates, reading with youth and participating in a variety of community service projects.
“From their years of athletic
commitment they have internalized
the benefits of self-discipline, time
management and teamwork,” said
Barbara Seidman, interim dean of
faculty.
Over the years, Linfield has
developed a reputation for consistently shaping strong student athletes. Fourteen have received
Academic All-American status since
2002.
The intangibles that make a
good football team are the same
elements that make a good student
and leader in whatever vocation
they choose, said Jay Locey, head
football coach since 1996.
Dwight Donaldson ’06
“We develop the total person
with a commitment to excellence,”
added Locey. “We help our players
establish priorities of family, school
and then football. We want them to
excel academically, athletically and
in their relationships with people.”
Although she came to Linfield
to study finance and mathematics,
Harksen said her involvement in
athletics has balanced her life and
made her more well-rounded.
“Academics is my main priority,” said Harksen, an intern at RV
Kuhns Investment Firm in Portland
who also finds time to tutor fellow
math students. “It’s why I chose
Linfield, and it was an added benefit that I got to play volleyball as
well.”
The flexibility and understanding of both professors and coaches
enable athletes to balance their
commitments.
“If we have a big test or project
coming up, our coach tells us academics is our number one priority,”
said Harksen of Shane Kimura,
Linfield volleyball coach. “He
understands that’s the main reason
we chose to come to Linfield and if
we have something to get done it’s
okay to miss a practice.”
That support has been crucial
for Donaldson, a physics major with
hopes of pursing a career in nuclear
medicine. He participates in the
Start Making a Reader Today program in the McMinnville School
District and has interned at Aptech,
a local company founded by Bill
Mackie ’71, professor of physics.
“Coaches and professors definitely worked with me when there
was a conflict between the two,”
Donaldson said. “College athletics is
one of the greatest classrooms you
can find. And when you combine
that with the academics we have
here at Linfield, you have an incredible education.”
– Laura Davis
Lindsay Harksen ’06
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Alumni News
Student Profile
Alumni
Internship mixes sports, business
John Dailey ’06 may not have
been born with a ball in his hand,
but it didn’t take long for him to
pick one up.
Dailey, a finance major and
member of both the Linfield football and baseball teams, has participated in a variety of sports – seven
at last count – since pulling on his
first pair of cleats at age 5, sometimes competing in three simultaneously.
So it made perfect sense for
him to combine his business
training and love of athletics in a
summer internship at FieldTurf
Builders, a Wilsonville-based general contracting company that
installs athletic complexes and
fields. With 150 employees, the
company puts in 80 to 95 fields
each year, including the Linfield
football field in 2004.
“I was looking for something
sports-related but with a business
perspective as well,” said Dailey,
who transferred to Linfield from
Oregon State University last year.
“It gave me an opportunity to
apply the many concepts I have
learned in the classroom along
with broader life concepts I have
learned through my participation
in sports.”
Dailey job-shadowed Rob
Gloeckner ’00, general manager
for FieldTurf Builders, before
being offered the internship.
“There was no other interview
needed,” said Gloeckner, a former
Wildcat baseball player. “I know
what it takes to play sports at
Linfield, and that is what it takes to
succeed in the business world.
Linfield athletes are definitely the
type of people I look for.”
During the 10-week stint,
Dailey worked with Gloeckner
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agement, dealing with vendors and
getting his hands dirty on the field.
Gloeckner said Daily worked
hard, learned quickly and found
ways to improve his assigned tasks.
Those are traits Gloeckner said
were ingrained in him at Linfield,
both on and off the field.
“Coaches at Linfield stress that
if you want to be great at something, you have to work for it and
find a way to push yourself, and
that applies to everything in life,”
he said. “When you step out of the
classroom and into the working
world, you have to constantly push
yourself. You’re competing against
a lot larger pool of talent. You’re
always competing against the
unknown.”
The first-hand business training proved beneficial for Dailey,
who bolstered the experience by
taking part in the Seminar in
Securities Markets, a January
Term class held in New York.
Pencil Us In
There he visited the New York
Stock Exchange and met a number of financial executives,
including Jim McCary ’03, Scott
Hamilton ’77, Mike Sass ’76 and
Tom Phillips ’79.
“So much of business is interpersonal relations and communications,” Dailey said. “Not only
did I get to see New York, but I
saw how business is done at the
highest level. That’s something I
can bring back and apply to the
sports industry, no matter where
I’m working.”
Dailey plans to pursue a career
melding business and sports, perhaps working in financial management within a professional sports
team.
“These two experiences combined will help to create an excellent career path for the future,” he
said.
– Laura Davis
Redondo Beach
gathering
March 1, 6-8 p.m.
Join Interim President
Marvin Henberg, alumni,
family and friends for a hosted
reception in Redondo Beach
at the home of Margaret
(Zimmerman) ’51 and Bob
Freeman.
Palm Desert luncheon
March 2, 11:30 a.m.
Henberg will greet alumni, family and friends for
lunch at the Palm Desert
Resort Country Club.
President’s Club reception
May 3, 5-7 p.m.
Meet Thomas L. Hellie,
Linfield’s 19th president, along
with other alumni and friends at
the Oregon Historical Society.
Nursing Alumni Day
May 6
11 a.m. Class of 1956
luncheon, Peterson Hall
5:30 p.m. alumni banquet
Double Tree, Lloyd Center
Alumni Shakespeare trip
July 13-16
Travel to Ashland with
alumni and friends to take
part in the Shakespeare
Festival.
Homecoming 2006
Sept. 29-30
Mark your calendars now
to reunite with alumni for a
weekend of festivities during
Homecoming 2006.
For more information on
these and other alumni events,
contact the Alumni Office at
503-883-2607or
on the
the
on
www.linfield.edu/alumni
web
Alumni take on new roles
Two well-known alumni with
longstanding ties to Linfield
College have taken on new roles
in the College Relations office.
Lisa Garvey ’86, director of
alumni relations since 1992, now
serves as assistant director of
advancement services. She is focusing her efforts on the new interacLisa Garvey ‘86
tive alumni network, alumni
records and donor stewardship.
Debbie (Hansen) Harmon
’90, formerly the director of capital
giving, is the new director of
alumni relations. She is responsible
for alumni activities and events
both on- and off-campus. Harmon
served in the admissions office
from 1994 to 1998, when she
Debbie (Hansen)
joined the College Relations staff.
Harmon ‘90
“Lisa and Debbie bring
tremendous talents to these positions,” according to Bruce Wyatt, vice president for
College Relations. “They will strengthen our online
services for alumni as well as develop new programming for Linfield alumni and parents.”
Homecoming 2006
September 29-30
John Dailey ’06 combined interests in sports and business during a summer internship at FieldTurf
Builders. The general contracting company installed the Linfield football field in 2004.
Celebrating classes of 1946, 1956,
1966, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991 and 1996,
the Linfield choir and the 1986
national championship football team.
www.linfield.edu/alumni/homecoming.php
503-883-2547
Mark the date now to reconnect with old
friends (and meet some new ones,too)!
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Class Notes
1940-49
ning and environmental sciences
firm.
Tom and Juanita (Glascoe)
Maloney ’46 and ’49 live in
McMinnville. Tom, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Air
Reserve, was inducted into the
Oregon Aviation Hall of Fame.
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1950-59
Jim Ledbetter ’51 of Lake
Oswego traveled to Israel and Palestine
as part of an Interfaith Peace-Builders
delegation organized by the Fellowship
of Reconciliation-USA.
Weldon Munter ’51 of Silsbee,
Texas, served in the U.S. Navy and
Marines and in three wars including
World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
Tom and Virginia (Nelson)
Blackburn ’57 and ’58 of Boise,
Idaho, have written Formula for a
Miracle, covering the first 50 years
of the Community Christian
Center.
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Tim Marsh ’70 of Pullman,
Wash., has been named to the
Chamber of Commerce Hall of
Fame in Pullman for 20 years of
community service. He works for
Washington State University.
Betty (Miller) Mills ’70 of
McMinnville was honored as a 50year member of the National Music
Teachers Association. She has taught
piano to thousands of students over
63 years, including at Linfield.
David and Nancy (Poynter)
Wilde ’70 and ’72 live in
Vancouver, Wash. David is executive
director of Open House Ministries.
Amy Tan ’73 and Louis
Demattei ’72 live in Del Mar,
Calif., where Tan has been named
literary editor of West, the Los
Angeles Times’ Sunday magazine.
John Rogers ’74 of Atascadero,
Calif., is superintendent of the
Atascadero School District.
Dick and Rachelle (Martin)
Hughes ’75 and ’76 live in Salem.
Dick is editorial page editor for the
Statesman Journal and Rachelle is
human resource specialist at
Willamette Valley Medical Center.
Casey Kimes ’76 of Redfern,
Australia, is managing director for
Enviro&Energy Technologies, which
imports environmental and energy
products.
Scott Salo ’76 of Poulsbo,
Wash., earned a doctor of chiropractic from Palmer College of
Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa,
and is currently practicing in
Washington.
Shelley (Randolph) Winston
’77 of Hawthorne, Calif., is a
research assistant with Los Angeles
Community College.
1980-89
Tamara (Owens) Backston
’80 of San Rafael, Calif., operates
Homelife Designs.
Kathy (Barnes) Duke ’81 of
Snohomish, Wash., is an early childhood education assistant in the
Snohomish School District. She
recently traveled to Africa.
Douglas Archibald ’85 of
State College, Penn., is a research
associate at Penn State University.
He and his wife, Gretchen, adopted
a daughter, Riris.
M A G A Z I N E
Jim Feldkamp ’85 of Roseburg
is a criminal justice instructor of
Umpqua Community College.
Michael Friess ’85 of
Anchorage, Alaska, was named Great
Northwest Athletic Conference
Men’s and Women’s Cross Country
Coach of the Year.
Suzette Plaisted ’85 of
Hickory, N.C., is executive director
of the Catowba Valley chapter of the
American Red Cross.
Paul Butcher, Jr. ’86 of
Hillsboro is state and local marketing manager for Intel Corp., the
world’s largest manufacturer of
computer chips.
Mark Kendall ’86 of Salem,
senior energy analyst at the Oregon
Department of Energy, was named
chair of the Board of Directors for
the Northwest Energy Efficiency
Alliance.
Steve Marshall ’86 of West
Linn presented “Marketing in
China: Be Local, Be Relevant, Be
Bold” at a China Business Network
luncheon in November.
Joey (Harada) Otani ’87 of
Mililani, Hawaii, and her husband,
Floyd, had a son, Matthew, Sept. 17,
their second.
Diana Palmer ’86 of Santa
Barbara, Calif., is head athletic trainer, assistant professor of kinesiology
and Sports Medicine Program
director at Westmont College.
Sally Damewood ’89 of
Portland and Mike Wight had a son,
Avery John “AJ,” April 24. She is a
personal trainer for Mavericks Sports
Club and a licensed massage therapist.
Dave and Anastacia (Sims)
Dillon, both ’89, of Tigard had a
daughter, Julia Satsuki, Dec. 31.
1990-99
Jim King ’90 of Hines, a major
in the United States Marine Corps
Reserves and the commanding officer for Charlie Company, 4th Tank
Battalion, 4th Marine Division, was
deployed to Iraq last March.
Kevin Pearson ’92 of Portland
is a principal at Stoel Rives LLP.
Tony and Don Don (Shaw)
Williams ’92 and ’91 of Coeur
d’Alene, Idaho, had a son, Rhys,
Sept. 27, their second.
J Graigory ’93 of West
Hollywood, Calif., is production
coordinator of Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Don Grotting ’93 of Nyssa is
superintendent of the Nyssa School
District.
Kimberly (Moar) Benedetti
’94 of Tigard and her husband,
Jared, had a son, Kyle Joseph, Aug.
13, their second.
Brent Bracelin ’94 of Portland
works for Pacific Crest Securities
and appears on CNBC, providing
financial analysis of publicly-traded
companies.
Todd Farmer ’94 of Laredo,
Texas, is a professor at Texas A&M
University.
Joel and Robin (DeJong)
Morgan ’94 and ’95 live in
Beaverton. Joel is a teacher in
the Beaverton School District
and Robin is a school counselor
in the Hillsboro School
District.
Chen Ren ’94 of Shanghai,
China, is director of World Link
Dental Centers’ Hong Qiao Clinic.
Christine Davis ’95 of
Phoenix, Ariz., and her husband,
Jonathan Dessaules, had a daughter,
Ruby Davis Dessaules.
Brandie Holly ’95 of Boise,
Idaho, is project manager of The
Network Group, which provides
network support, maintenance and
consulting.
Elizabeth Briggs
Huthnance ’95 of Washington,
D.C., is senior program associate
with the National Academies.
She participated in the Japan
Exchange Teaching Program and
is pursuing a M.A.L.S. in international affairs at Georgetown
University.
Chris Liebson ’95 of Sante Fe,
N.M., is head of the Information
Technology Services helpdesk for
the New Mexico Environment
Department.
Jennifer Emery-Morelli ’95
of Tigard is a supervisor with Pacific
Care Behavioral Health.
Peggy Peirson ’95 of
Philomath is the Benton County
Emergency Services program coordinator.
Tom and Erika (Larson)
Scott ’95 and ’97 of Canby had a
son, Joseph William, Sept. 9, their
fourth.
Nick Sheedy ’96 of John Day
married Sammi-Jo Stohler April 9
in Fruitland, Idaho. He works at
Sheedy Masonry and Construction
and KJDY Radio.
Kenneth and Tristyne
(Edmon) Huffman ’97 and ’96
of Springfield had a daughter, Rhysa
Marie, March 19.
Scott Crouter ’98 of Ithaca,
N.Y., received a Ph.D. in exercise
physiology from the University of
Tennessee. He is currently working
in a post-doctorate program at
Cornell University.
Taryne Edmon ’98 of
Springfield married Adam Roberts
May 19 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Taryne is a juvenile probation officer for Linn County.
Kristen (Williams) Healy
’99 of Gresham and her husband,
Christopher, had a daughter,
Danielle Alene, June 21, their
second.
Tim and Alyssa (Schuur)
Roupp ’99 and ’01 of Portland had
a daughter Nov. 26, their second.
Tim is a math teacher at Centennial
High School and Alyssa is children's
ministry assistant at Abundant Life
Fellowship.
Shannon Reed ’99 and Brad
MacLauchlan ’99 were married
July 23 in Central Point. They live
in Medford where Shannon is a
teacher at Central Point Elementary
and Brad is a mason.
Molly (Steele) Russell ’99 of
Indio, Calif., and her husband,
Tommy, had a daughter, Abigail,
Sept. 22. Molly is a teacher in the
Palm Springs Unified School
District.
Matthew and Kate (Lamont)
Vance, both ’99, of Portland had a
daughter, Lauren Isabel, Oct. 29.
2000-05
Kjelsty Hanson ’00 of Napier,
New Zealand, married Glenn
Kastrinos April 23 in Coeur
d’Alene, Idaho. She earned a MFA
in multi-media performance from
the University of Idaho.
Brian Hranka ’00 of Portland
is vice president, OEM practice, for
Centennial Software, a Portland-
based high tech company.
Peter Voskes ’00 of Ashland is
head cross country and track coach
at North Medford High School.
Lori (Nearing) Lindsay ’01
of Anacortes, Wash., is director of
perioperative services at United
General Hospital in Sedro-Wooley.
Melanie (Zollars) McGrath
’01 of Durham, N.C., received a
master of science in exercise and
sport science from the University of
North Carolina and is now in a
doctoral program in human movement science at the University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Leslie Boer-Plotts ’01 of
Salem earned an associate of applied
science degree in dental hygiene at
Laramie County Community
College. She is a hygienist at the
Lancaster Dental Center.
Scott and Stephanie
(Kristovich) White, both ’01, live
in Seaside. Scott is employed by
White’s Heating and Sheet Metal
and Stephanie is a dentist at
Gearhart Dentistry.
Evan Wilson ’01 of Mulino
works for Pacific Crest Securities
and appears on CNBC, providing
financial analysis of publicly-traded
companies.
Alexander Baxter ’02 of
Boise, Idaho, is a home inspector for
Home Inspections of Idaho and
head swim coach at Timberline
High School.
Paul Cooper ’02 of Brooklyn,
N.Y., works for arrow, a design studio in New York. He earned an
MFA in design and technology
from Parsons School of Design in
New York.
Jeff Woodard ’03 of
McMinnville is the Northwest sales
manager for Inertia Beverage
Group.
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Sally Skelding ’62 of Portland
is a retired faculty member at Mt.
Hood Community College in the
Department of Early Childhood
Education. She remains active consulting and giving presentations
related to childhood education. She
is an advisor to Parent Child
Preschool of Oregon and manages a
local community theatre group,
“The North End Players.”
Harold Boyanovsky ’66 of
Lake Forest, Ill., is president and
chief executive officer of Case New
Holland and president of
Construction Equipment Business.
Leonard Cooke ’66 of Glen
Allen, Va., directs the Virginia
Department of Criminal Justice
Services. Prior to his appointment
by Gov. Mark Warner in 2002, he
had a 32-year law enforcement
career.
Weston Heringer Jr. ’66 of
Salem is president of the Oregon
Dental Association. He operates
private practices in Salem and
Lincoln City.
Peter Petersen ’66 of Boise,
Idaho, retired from his practice of
ophthalmology after more than 28
years. He will surpass three million
feet in heliskiing this winter.
Shelley McIntyre ’67 of
Portland is a senior consultant with
Parametrix, an engineering, plan-
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Gifford-Thorne’s office is 653,000-acre wilderness area
Liz Gifford-Thorne ’01
Forgive Liz Gifford-Thorne
if she smiles at the thought of a
nerve-grinding rush-hour commute. Her vehicle of choice?
A sea kayak.
Gifford-Thorne ’01 is a
wilderness ranger for the U.S.
Forest Service, based in Juneau,
Alaska. Her territory is the
653,000-acre Tracy Arm-Fords
Terror Wilderness Area.
The 27-year-old from
Portland has lived in Alaska for
three years. Prior to that, she was a
field instructor, teaching environmental education to sixth-graders
in the Multnomah Education
Nicole Duranleau ’04 of
Kapolei, Hawaii, is an elementary
school teacher in the Leeward
Oahu School District.
David McAdams ’04 of
Portland has been awarded a
Graduate Research Fellowship in
analytical chemistry by the
Cooperative Institute for Research
in Environmental Sciences.
Jodie Miyagi ’04 of Waipahu,
Hawaii, is an elementary school
teacher in the Leeward Oahu
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Service District Outdoor School.
“I came to Juneau because the
University of Alaska Southeast has
an outdoor leadership skills program, and I wanted to feel more
comfortable leading students in the
backcountry,” said Gifford-Thorne,
who majored in anthropology
with an environmental studies
minor at Linfield.
“I love being challenged physically,” she said. “I want to help
others discover that safely.”
Among her backcountry
adventures, she and two other
rangers were bushwhacking on
a steep slope when a black bear
popped up from behind a stump.
Because he was small, they feared
he might be a cub with a defensive mother nearby. He turned
out to be an adolescent eager to
display his toughness. The rangers
had to find stable ground, so they
retreated downhill.
“He charged us,” GiffordThorne said. Back on flat ground,
the hikers grabbed sticks and
yelled at the bear, which came
within 50 feet of them before
turning and running off. “It was
a very intense experience in which
I learned a lot about bear behavior,” Gifford-Thorne said.
Every day is interesting in
managing wilderness areas, she
said. “I love my job. I work on a
School District.
Sarah (Stober) Doll ’04 of
Liberty Lake, Wash., is a teacher at
Sylvan Learning Center.
Kimberly Tracey ’04 of
Portland and her husband, Mark,
had a son, Jack Mattox, July 6.
Justin Welch ’05 married
Kathryn Flego ’05 June 5 in
Portland. They live in West Jordan,
Utah, and teach fourth grade in
the West Jordan School District.
M A G A Z I N E
variety of projects, such as monitoring the harbor seal population
for its health and stability and
collecting lichen samples for
air-quality surveys.”
She also searches for invasive
plants in the wilderness and would
like eventually to earn a master’s
degree in botany.
In Juneau, accessible only by
water and air, she has found a
tight-knit community. “It’s a creative environment that is very
supportive of new artists,” said
Gifford-Thorne, who has displayed
and sold her photography in several gallery shows there.
Her mother, Janet Gifford
’70, works at Linfield’s Portland
campus in the DCE/Adult
Degree Program. When she
visited Liz in Alaska, they flew
with a bush pilot in a deHavilland
Beaver float plane to Admiralty
Island, where they watched brown
bears fish and romp in a Forest
Service sanctuary.
“I like to visit with Liz in her
place,” Janet said. “It gives me
such happiness to see her in her
element. I have great satisfaction
knowing that she’s doing something so important to her and, by
extension, important to the rest of
us.”
In memoriam
Pauline (Beaver) Stark ’31 of
Portland, Nov. 11. Survivors include
a daughter, Elizabeth (Stark)
Southwell ’54.
Albert Foster ’34 of Portland,
June 12.
Elizabeth (Grover) Watson
’36 of Portland, Dec. 16.
Albert Parker ’37 of Belfair,
Wash., Nov. 14, 2004.
– By Beth Rogers Thompson
Evelyn (Gibson) DeGordin
’37 of McMinnville, Jan. 4. Survivors
include a nephew, Hal Gibson ’59.
Florence (Pyatt) Cummins
’37 of McMinnville, Oct. 3.
Nana (Weidner) Bertheau
’37 of Vancouver, Wash., March 12.
Rene Bertheau ’38 of
Vancouver, Wash., July 11.
Emma (Holderreed) Wells
’38 of Twin Falls, Idaho, Sept. 26.
Marjorie (Perkins) Camp ’39
of Livermore, Calif., Sept. 25.
Martha (Brown) Gjerning
’40 of King City, Feb. 13, 2005.
Clarence Bolin ’41 of
Hillsboro, Oct. 2.
Eugene O’Keeffe, Sr. ’42 of
Fairview, Feb. 14, 2005.
Jean (Chamberlain) Daub
’42 of Medford, Sept. 2.
Mayo (Rolph) Roy ’42 of
Lake Oswego, Nov. 8.
Naomi Nelson ’42 of
Portland, Sept. 30.
William Waind ’43 of
Beaverton, Oct. 25. Survivors
include a daughter, Marsha
(Waind) Trolan ’69.
Evelyn Varney ’43 of
Vancouver, Wash., Nov. 29.
Jackson Newton ’46 of The
Dalles, April 19, 2003.
Maurice Cohn ’48 of Salem,
May 17.
Alvista (Ray) Steele ’49 of
Clatskanie, Sept. 12.
Robert Bond ’50 of
Meadville, Pa., Nov. 16.
Carl Pershall ’50 of Eureka,
Mont., Nov. 22.
Douglas Miller ’50 of
McMinnville, Nov. 22.
Donald Beery ’50 of Boise,
Idaho, June 4.
Ian Marsh ’51 of Upland,
Calif., May 6. Survivors include a
daughter, Heather (Marsh)
Tremain ’94.
Henry Hwang ’51 of San
Marino, Calif., Oct. 8.
Earl Anderson ’52 of
Troutdale, July 16.
Ron Finley ’59 of Alpharetta,
Ga., Oct. 25.
Larrie (Osterman) Denison
’59 of Bellevue, Wash., July 4.
Charles Smith ’61 of Portland,
May 20.
Gerald Abbott ’63, ’64 of
McMinnville, Nov. 25.
Rhoda Lawrence ’66 of
Vancouver, Wash., May 9.
Ronald Durr ’70 of
Allentown, Pa., Sept. 24.
Jed Wegner ’81 of Bend, April
5, 2004.
Portia (Parratt) Kowolowski
’96 of Redmond, June 24.
Jennifer (Boyman) Dukovich
’97 of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Nov.
23, 2004. Survivors include her
husband, Ron Dukovich ’97.
Virginia Kohn ’03 of Hermiston,
Dec. 4.
GSH
Anona Marie (Fisher) Tucker
GSH ’31 of Portland, Oct. 10.
Betty (Doughty) King GSH
’67 of Coquille, Dec. 16, 2004.
Friends and family
Blanche (Brorby) Wold of
McMinnville, Oct. 5. She taught
home economics at Linfield and was
married to Milo Wold, Linfield professor of music. Survivors include
children Sandra (Wold) Douglas
’65 and Michael ’68.
Phyllis White of Wilsonville, Feb.
24, 2005. She was a member of the
Linfield Board of Trustees. Survivors
include a son, David ’64.
Marion van Dyk of
McMinnville, Nov. 22. He was
emeritus professor of music at
Linfield. Survivors include his wife
Marilyn (Simonsen) ’58, son
Paul ’85, daughter Dirsten (van
Dyk) McDevitt ’87 and daughterin-law Diana (Ice) ’82.
Chaplain follows his calling in second career
At age 53, as some of
his peers were eyeing
retirement, John Hubbard
’62 was embarking on a
new career.
Hubbard retired from
Deere and Company in
1992 after a successful 30year management career
and, three months later,
entered the seminary.
John Hubbard ’62
For most of his life,
Hubbard has been active in Baptist and, later,
Presbyterian churches. He considered the ministry at a
younger age, but, “I just figured I wasn’t good enough
for that, so I didn’t do it” at the time, he said.
Instead, he majored in business administration at
Linfield, then embarked on a corporate career. After
a series of promotions, he was in Deere’s headquarters in Moline, Ill. “It was a disappointment in many
ways because I found it wasn’t very satisfying,” he
said. “I created many programs, but saw few of them
put into action.”
After returning to the West Coast, Hubbard
earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1996 from
San Francisco Theological Seminary in San
Anselmo, Calif. He now lives in Vancouver, Wash.,
and has been a chaplain at Providence Portland
Medical Center for eight years.
Initially, hospital work did not appeal to
Hubbard. In fact, he dreaded the required chaplain
rotation. But he was good at it. “In time it came to
be what I felt was my calling,” he said. “Now I can’t
imagine doing anything else.”
Father Bruce Cwiekowski, Providence’s director
of pastoral care, said Hubbard is well loved by
patients and staff. “He has a great sense of humor,
and he’s down to earth,” Cwiekowski said.
The job can require rapid emotional shifts: The
chaplain may bless a newborn, then console a family
whose loved one is dying. Hubbard’s faith grounds
him, Cwiekowski said, adding, “His spirituality
enables him to meet people where they are.”
Hubbard said he never could have made this
dramatic career shift without his family’s support.
Wife Judy is a contract registered nurse for
Multnomah County. They have two daughters, Julie
Hubbard-McNall ’90 of McMinnville, and Jennifer
Geller of Eugene. Each has two children.
Hubbard recently completed his Doctor of
Ministry degree from San Francisco Theological
Seminary. “I feel better doing this job overall, mentally, physically and spiritually,” he said. At the end of
a work day, he knows he has made a difference.
– By Beth Rogers Thompson
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Alumni Profile
Former ASLC president becomes ‘Face of Sherwood’
Keith Mays ’91
When Keith Mays ’91 led the
Linfield College student body as
president in 1990, he never imagined a career in politics.
Yet today, Mays is putting his
leadership skills to work as mayor of
Sherwood. At 37, Mays is one of
Oregon’s youngest mayors, leading
one of the state’s fastest-growing
cities. Sherwood has more than doubled in size to 16,000 residents since
Mays moved there in 1996, and
managing that growth has been his
number one priority, first as a member of the planning commission,
then as city council president and
now as mayor.
Along the way, Mays has helped
revitalize the once stagnant community and mend long-standing conflicts between the city and school district. They formed a partnership to
jointly manage and maintain school
district ball fields and gyms. Last year,
the city formed Sherwood Broadband,
and Mays hopes to partner with the
school district in this area, too.
Mays used the same innovative
leadership at Linfield when he helped
to create the Catalyst, Linfield’s student-run deli that operated until
2004, according to Jeff Mackay, associate dean of students and director
of residence life.
“As student body president,
Keith was a hard worker who served
the students well,” Mackay said.
Although he was an applied
physics major at Linfield, Mays didn’t
limit himself to the science lab.
“Linfield gave me the opportunity to try new things, to test my interests and abilities and learn from my
professors, coaches and peers,” he said.
“Linfield taught me how to learn,
communicate and listen – important
skills for the rest of my life.”
Mays works hard to balance his
mayoral responsibilities with his personal life and career – he has worked
in the commercial equipment finance
industry for the past 12 years. Much
of his time is spent listening.
“In a small community like
Sherwood, it’s about getting out,
listening to your neighbors and
finding out what’s important to
them,” he said. “And then trying
to deliver.”
– Laura Davis
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Moss combines banking, service
Banking and community service go hand-in-hand
for Patricia Moss ’85.
Moss, president and CEO of Cascade Bancorp and
CEO of Bank of the Cascades, is a leader in both the
banking industry and the Bend community, where she’s
made her home for the past 32 years.
For her efforts, Moss has been named by US Banker
Magazine to its annual “Top 25 Most Powerful Women
in Banking” list for 2005. This is the third year she has
been named to the distinguished list, which profiles
individuals whose professional achievements and personal integrity have made them icons of influence in the
workplace, at home and within their communities. The
ranking traced more than 5,000 women in banking
across the U.S.
Moss said the award reflects the achievement of her
entire group.
“It’s flattering,” she said. “But I clearly understand
that I’m there because of the performance of my team.
The credit goes way beyond me as a person.”
That team philosophy extends beyond the workplace to the community as well. In addition to serving
on a number of boards, she is former president of the
Bend Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Bend
Rotary, and vice chair of United Way, and was named
Central Oregon’s Citizen of the
Year and Soroptomist International
Woman of Distinction.
She considers community
service a natural responsibility.
“In order to have a great community, you have to contribute
your part,” Moss said. “We all have
to do what we can do to build a
community that thrives in the next
generation.”
Moss has practically grown up with Bank of the
Cascades. She was a teller when the bank opened its
doors in 1977, and she has worked her way up to the
top position, earning a degree from Linfield’s Adult
Degree Program along the way. With an associate’s
degree from Central Oregon Community College in
hand, Moss spent nearly a decade picking up classes
from various institutions before enrolling at Linfield.
Eighteen months later, she earned a management diploma.
“I ended up with the right solution with Linfield,”
said Moss, who attended night, weekend and video
classes, while juggling the responsibilities of being a
young mother and full-time employee at Bank of the
Fueled by a diploma from Linfield’s Adult Degree Program, Patricia Moss ’85 has led
Bank of the Cascades through enormous growth. She was recently named to a list of
“Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking” by US Banker Magazine.
Cascades. “It allowed me to get
my degree, but not have to put
my career or family on hold
while I completed it. It was so
important to me to gain that
theoretical knowledge and earn
my business degree.”
Donna Meddish, former
Central Oregon area advisor
through Linfield’s Adult Degree
Program, was impressed by the young career woman.
“She seemed as if she could do anything she took
on,” said Meddish. “She came to the first class with a
binder organizing her work history. The quality of her
work immediately stood out. I guess that’s why she’s
accomplished as much as she has.”
A self-described people person, Moss said the banking industry combines people and strategy, two of her
favorite things.
“I love numbers that tell a story,” she said. “I like to
look into the future to help strategize what we’ll be.”
“In order to have a
great community, you
have to contribute
your part.”
– Laura Davis
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