FALL/WINTER 2007 NEWS FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY VOL. 13, NO. 1 Songs Never Silenced By Dee Johnson UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS In his journal, Morris Tenenbaum relates the daily experience of family members who survived the pogroms in turn-of-the-century Lithuania. They escaped to America, traveling in the steerage compartment of a freighter. In their trunks and boxes and bags, they carried jars of chicken schmaltz mixed with hot water and hard bread, kosher food that would sustain them on their very long journey. In their hearts, they carried the music that had always sustained them. A generation later, when the Holocaust was beginning, Jews were herded onto the boxcars of trains going to unannounced destinations. They gave up their trunks and boxes and bags, but they did not give up their music. Using music, stories and slides, Millie and the Mentshn, a Klezmer band, shows how Jewish music changed as it moved across time and space before, during and after the Holocaust. Campus visitors will have an opportunity to experience this journey when the band brings its multimedia concert to Western’s Performing Arts Center on April 22. Millie and the Mentshn was formed in 2002 when Millie Johnson, a WWU professor of mathematics, began researching the lyrics and melodies that shaped the music so often remarked on in the journals written by her grandfather’s cousin, Morris Tenenbaum. Band members include Lou Lippman, piano, Warren Palken, drums, Ken Bronstein, oboe, and Phil Heaven, viola and violin. Johnson is the vocalist for the band and also writes the musical arrangements. Lippman and Bronstein are also on the faculty at Western. Lippman is a professor of psychology; Bronstein is an accounting lecturer. Following a chronological path, the April concert will introduce folk tunes starting from the late 1800s. The program will include a love song written in 1933 by Eliza Greenblatt. Her musically gifted family included son-in-law Woodie Guthrie and grandson Arlo Guthrie. Other songs from the Depression era will include “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” made popular by Bing Crosby. The program will include a selection of songs written in the ghettos and concentration camps. Rarely do these songs address normal happenings— romance, children at play, the joy of learning. These songs chronicle families torn asunder. The lyrics, often narrative, are less soothing than the music. Dremlyn Feygl (Birds Are Dreaming) is a typical example of a lullaby. Your cradle once did stand Woven out of happiness. And your mother, oh, your mother Never will return. Hushabye. The music began to change in 1941 as the partisan movement developed. Johnson says that "What distinguishes the music of this period is the march rhythm (4/4 time) and the themes, which changed from tragedy and desperation to courage, dignity and survival. Many resistors, and they included non-Jews, were living in the woods and using what weapons they could steal or borrow. The rhythm of the music evokes a feeling of strength and spirit." After the war, as survivors immigrated to the United States, joy and hope tempered by grief fused together to form a new dynamic. The music that evolved was a synthesis of Old World traditions and the sounds of Broadway tunes and jazz that greeted them in the New World. Like the survivors, the music has adapted. "Songs Never Silenced" has received generous support from the W W U Diversity Fund and from other campus organizations, including Hillel, Lutheran Campus Ministry and the Northwest Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Ethnocide Education. The title "Songs Never Silenced" is being used with permission granted by Velvel Pasternak, editor of a book with the same title. For more information about this band, go to www.millieandthemensthn.com. CONTENTS 2 Campus Connections Letters and items of interest about the university 4 Class Notes Sculpture: Rock Rings © Nancy Holt/licensed by VAGA, New York News, weddings, memoriams Roll 7 Honor of Donors 10 Celebrating The Arts Millie and the Mentshn will present "Songs Never Silenced" at 3 p.m Sunday, April 22. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students and seniors. For reservations, call the WWU Box Office at (360) 650-6146. A focus on opera Roll 12 Honor of Donors 18 Accent on Alumni Sharing good times and good works 20 Calendar Courtesy photo/Millie and the Mentshn 516 High Street Bellingham, WA 98225 - 9030 NON PROFIT U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit # 231 Seattle, WA Change Service Requested If this copy of Window on Western is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer has a permanent address at your home, please notify us with the new information. Send change of address to Window on Western, MS-9030, WWU, Bellingham, WA 98225-9030, or call (360) 650-3069. Or send e-mail to [email protected]. FALL/WINTER 2007 1 David Scherrer / WWU Publishing Services BRIEFLY ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Kay Hovde (’84), Snohomish, president Angelique Davis (’95), Seattle, immediate past president Larry Otos ('83), Mount Vernon, president elect Kirby Duncan ('92), Bellingham, treasurer Jamie Beletz ('82), Tacoma, parliamentarian EXECUTIVE BOARD William (Bill) Boyd (’82), Bellingham Wendy Otto (’97), Lynnwood Jodi Suminski (’97), Mukilteo BOARD MEMBERS LeeAnn Alfano (’96), Bonney Lake Pamila Gant (89), Renton Tom Keeney (’71), Bellevue Kim Koppenberg, ('81) Monroe Phyllis McKee ('67), Bellingham Tina Pappas ('91), Clyde Hill Scott Railton (95), Mount Vernon Brandon Riffe (’94), Snoqualmie Monique Saniee ('95), Bothell Larry Simkins ('71), Bellingham Kevin Thomas ('91), Auburn Wen Tseng (’96), Redmond EDITOR Dee Johnson ('96) CONTRIBUTORS Mark Bagley, Susan Bakse (’88) Dee Johnson ('96), Kari Neumeyer GRAPHIC DESIGN/PRODUCTION Chris Baker, WWU Publishing Services EDITORIAL BOARD Mark Bagley, Susan Bakse ('88) Paul Cocke WINDOW ON WESTERN is published in the fall, winter and spring for alumni and friends of Western Washington University by the WWU Alumni Association and Office of University Communications 516 High Street, Bellingham WA 98225-9011 (360) 650-3353 or (800) 676-6885 Window on Western supports the University's commitment to assuring that all programs and activities are readily accessible to all eligible people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or Vietnam era or disabled veteran status. This publication is available in an alternate format. For information, call (360) 650-7410 (voice) or (360) 650-7696 TTY. 2 WWU SELECTED TO COORDINATE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROGRAM WWU PROFESSOR RECEIVES NSF GRANT TO STUDY GLOBAL WARMING The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has selected WWU to be the coordinating institution for the Student Participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning cluster, which is focused on improving undergraduate and graduate education. Other schools participating in this cluster include California State University, Long Beach; Elon University; Illinois State University; North Seattle Community College and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Andy Bunn, assistant professor of environmental studies at Western's Huxley College of the Environment, has received a $166,134 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue researching the effects of global warming on boreal forests at the artic treeline. The grant will enable Bunn to travel to Siberia and Canada to study the northernmost forests of the planet. His research so far has shown that the growth rate in boreal forests has remained steady or declined during the past 22 years. WWU RECEIVES $500,000 GRANT FOR INTEGRATED LABORATORY NETWORK The National Science Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to Western for further development of an Integrated Laboratory Network (ILN) that allows researchers, students and faculty to access scientific instruments remotely via the internet. The project began in 2001 with funding from Western's Student Technology Fee. The ILN received a Most Outstanding Effective Practices award in November 2004 from the Sloan Consortium, an association of organizations and institutions committed to online learning. BINGHAM RECEIVES NATURALIST AWARD Brian Bingham, a Huxley College of the Environment professor and resident scientist at Western's Shannon Point Marine Center, has received the 2006 Naturalist of the Year Award presented by the Western Society of Naturalists. The award was established to recognize those who inspire young scientists through mentoring, research and service. The Western Society of Naturalists was created in 1916 to promote interest in biology and the natural environment. MENDES EXHIBITS AT SCULPTURE BY THE SEA Sebastian Mendes, associate professor of art, was invited to exhibit at the 10th anniversary Sculpture by the Sea exhibition held in November at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Sculpture by the Sea is Australia's most popular outdoor display of art and has become the world's largest outdoor sculpture exhibition. Mendes was one of only five artists from the United States invited to exhibit. His work will also be featured in another exhibition in Perth. In March, Mendes will be a guest speaker at an international conference being held in Australia. His presentation will focus on Western's Outdoor Sculpture Collection. WWU PARTNERS WITH RADIO MUSEUM Western's College of Sciences and Technology has partnered with the American Museum of Radio and Electricity to enhance educational outreach in the sciences by developing programs that augment science education and illuminate the process of innovation and invention. The partnership will offer new opportunities for students in physics and engineering technology and in the Science, Mathematics and Technology Education (SMATE) program, which is a national model for improving teacher preparation and reforming science education. WWU TO HOST CANADIAN STUDIES JOURNAL Western has been selected as the new host institution for the American Review of Canadian Studies (ARCS). The journal strives to bring multidisciplinary analysis to Canadian economic, historical, cultural and political experience. In making the selection, ARCS noted that Western's Center for Canadian-American Studies is a leader in teaching and research on Canada in the United States. John Purdy, professor of English, has been appointed to a four-year term as editor. STUDY EXAMINES ECOLOGY OF BERING SEA David Shull, assistant professor of environmental sciences at Western's Huxley College of the Environment, and graduate student Emily Davenport are collaborating with Alan Devol, a chemical oceanographer from the University of Washington, to study the effects of climate change on nutrient cycling and productivity in the Bering Sea. The National Science Foundation's Bering Ecosystem Study granted the project $866,000, of which Western will receive $368,000. The fi rst of at least three research trips aboard an icebreaker ship is expected to be scheduled this spring. MOTTNER AND ROEHL RECEIVE TEACHING AWARDS Sandra Mottner and Tom Roehl are recipients of the 2006 Allette and Cayden Chase Franklin Excellence in Teaching Awards presented by Western's College of Business and Economics. Mottner, associate professor in the Department of Finance and Marketing, was recognized for development of a nonprofit marketing curriculum. Roehl, associate professor in the Department of Management, received the award in recognition of his integration of a broad range of skills in the international business curriculum. The $1,000 award is sponsored by WWU alumnus Chase Franklin ('86), a Center for Excellence in Management Education Advisory Board member and founder of the technology company Qpass. THEATRE ARTS DEPARTMENT TO HOST TOUR OF ROME AND ATHENS WWU's Theatre Arts Department has announced plans to host an educational tour of Rome and Athens in September. The tour, which will be open to alumni, students and the public, will focus on ancient Roman and Greek culture and will include guided visits to theatres, museums and the Vatican. Tour dates are Sept. 2 to 11. For information, email [email protected]. V Campus CAMPUS Connections CONNECTIONS Seattle Business Forum Your April 3 — Kerry Killinger, chairman and CEO of Washington Mutual, will be the keynote speaker at the 10th annual Western Washington University Seattle Business Forum. Last year nearly 800 alumni and friends participated. More than $100,000 was raised to support scholarships for WWU students. VOLLEYBALL TEAM DESERVES RECOGNITION I enjoyed reading the Spring/Summer 2006 edition of Window on Western. When I read through the Parade of Champions, however, I was disappointed to not see anything about volleyball. Reserve April 3 for this marquee event, which will be held again at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. Named annual scholarships and a table at the event are available for $3,000 each. Table sponsorships are available for $1,500. Each table seats nine guests; the 10th seat is filled by a WWU student, faculty or staff member. Program and event sponsorship levels are also available. WWU/CBE Golf Tournament June 18 — Alumni and friends will have an opportunity to enjoy a fun day of golfing on June 18, the date set for the second annual WWU/CBE Golf Tournament at the private Plateau Club in Sammamish. Last year's tournament brought together 120 alumni, parents, friends, faculty and students for a day of networking and golf followed by an evening barbecue and silent auction. This event raised much needed support for teaching and scholarship for Western's College of Business and Economics. Not a golfer? You are welcome to join us at 5:30 p.m. for the dinner and silent auction. For information about this year's tournament, sponsorships or dinner and silent auction, call Peggy Warner at (360) 650-2617 or go to www.cbe.wwu.edu/golf. Courtney Schneider, our libero, received many honors this past year, including Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) Academic All-Star, fi rst-team GNAC All-Star, honorable mention honors for American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA)/NCAA Division II All-American Volleyball Team, fi rst-team AVCA and Daktronics Pacific Region all-star squads, as well as being the first libero in GNAC history to earn player of the week. My daughter, Tiana Roma, was GNAC Freshman of the Year in 2005. Photo by Dan Levine/WWU Athletics For more information or to reserve your table, call the WWU special events office at (360) 650-3629 or visit www. foundation.wwu.edu/sbf. LETTERS It would be wonderful to see the volleyball schedule advertised along with the football schedule. Thank you for listening and thanks for the quality publication. Courtney Schneider —Nancy Roma Editor's Note:Junior libero Courtney Schneider was named a fi rst-team Daktronics and third-team American Volleyball Coaches Association AVCA All-American in November. She already is the WWU career record holder in digs with 1,844 and ranks second in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC), just 164 short of the league record. Schneider, who was the NCAA Division II national leader in digs per game (7.66), was a unanimous pick as a GNAC all star as well as a first-team Daktronics and AVCA Pacific Region all-star. In November, sophomore Tiana Roma was a first-team choice to the ESPN The Magazine/ College Sports Information Directors of America College Division District 8 All-Academic Team. Schneider was a second-team pick. Please send your letters to Window on Western, MS-9011, WWU, 516 High Street, Bellingham, WA 98225-9011 or email [email protected]. Letters sometimes are edited for length. Continuing a Legacy of Service By Karen W. Morse UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Every January, when the U.S. Peace Corps listing of top participating colleges and universities is published, I am reminded that the Western value of engagement is demonstrated in many ways by our alumni, students, faculty and staff. In the 2006 Peace Corps listing, Western is ranked fourth among medium-sized schools in the nation, based on the number of alumni currently serving as volunteers. Point of VIEW T O W R I T E WWU President Karen W. Morse c/o Alumni Relations WWU, MS-9199 516 High Street Bellingham, WA 98225-9199 E-mail: [email protected] Western students are continuing this tradition of service. College of Humanities and Social Sciences students alone annually contribute an average of 150,000 hours, working with more than 200 agencies in the region. Western’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, long recognized for its commitment to social responsibility, encourages student participation in a variety of formal and informal service programs. Students participating in the College of Fine and Performing Arts Dance Makers program and M.O.T.ley Crew (Multicultural Outreach Tour) regularly bring cultural experiences to students in grades K through 5. The College of Sciences and Technology, expanding its outreach to teachers and students, recently partnered with the American Museum of Radio and Electricity to enhance educational offerings for young students. The College also offers a Science and the univerCity public lecture series, part of an ongoing community outreach. Disting uished facult y from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences participate in the Dean’s Community Lecture Series, which is designed to showcase the breadth of topics in humanities and the behavioral and social sciences. Several WWU College of Business and Economics students volunteer as seminar leaders for MoneySense, a financial literacy program. MoneySense was created by Alexa Volwiler (’06) in response to a challenge issued to Beta Alpha Psi honorary society members to develop a program that would help young people make informed fi nancial decisions. Now in its second year, MoneySense won first place in the Beta Alpha Psi National Best Practices Competition held this past summer in Washington, D.C. Another notable recognition this year was the 2006 Naturalist of the Year Award presented by the Western Society of Naturalists to Brian Bingham, a WWU Huxley College of the Environment professor and director of the Multicultural Initiatives in Marine Science Undergraduate Participation program at Shannon Point Marine Center. This program, funded by the National Science Foundation, has received a national Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math and Engineering Mentoring. Students enrolled in Western’s Woodring College of Education participate in learning service programs and work on a variety of volunteer projects. As an example, Adam Johnson and Hardy VanRy and Woodring faculty members Jeff Stady, Duane Sisto and Ric Packard helped build a playground in Oak Harbor, Wash. Johnson served on a community steering committee that raised $90,000 for this project. We are well represented by alumni volunteering at home and abroad through a myriad of programs that make our world a much better place. I am very proud of the extent to which members of our Western family are engaged globally and in their communities. These efforts reflect a special kind of student and faculty and continue a long legacy at Western of service to others. FALL/WINTER 2007 3 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Honor Roll of Donors IN APPRECIATION OF PRIVATE FINANCIAL SUPPORT – 2005–2006 The Western Washington University Foundation and Western Washington University are pleased to recognize the generous private financial support received during the 20052006 year (July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006). During the year, 11,108 alumni, parents, friends and businesses contributed more than $5.6 million to Western. You gifts enhance all university programs and provide significant advantages to both faculty and students. Listed on these pages are the names of donors contributing $100 or more. GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM PRESIDENT'S CLUB MEMBERS provides funds that are essential to maintaining Western Washington University's leadership in undergraduate education. PRESIDENT'S CLUB level gifts may be designated to the Campus Enrichment Fund, which supports the most critical needs of campus-wide programs and projects, or to a specific college, department or program. For information on how you can support Western through the President's Club, please call Angie Vandenhaak at (360) 650-7647 or email [email protected]. PRESIDENT'S CLUB LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION INCLUDE: Benefactors — cumulative commitments of $100,000 or more (listing is carried in perpetuity) Lifetime Members — cumulative total of $25,000 or more (listing is carried for life) Honor Council — annual gift of $5,000 or more Each contribution is deeply appreciated. On behalf of all who teach and learn at WWU, thank you to all who invest in Western Washington University. You are making an impact. BENEFACTORS Estate of Marguerite Agnew Alcoa Primary Metals Alpha Technologies Inc. Alventive Estate of George E. Amendt Amgen Anonymous Estate of Ralph W. Babcock Jr. Bank of America The Boeing Company Fredericka Bond Pete and Maureen Botting Jack and Jo Ann Bowman Marian L. Boylan BP Cherry Point Refinery BP Foundation Nancy Brooks Brown and Cole Stores Craig and Susan Cole Jack and Martha Cole Estate of Kathryn Brunken Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc Canadian Consulate General Robert and Sandy Chapman Comcast Spotlight Estate of Miriam Crellin Thomas Crowell Estate of Everett Dalton Brian and Lynne Daugherty Economics America Washington Council on Economic Education Edmonds Floral and Arts Foundation Ed and Maude Hodgson A. Herbert and Billee Ershig Fluke Corp. Fielding Formway Gordon and Alice Fraser General Motors Technical Center Georgia Pacific Chemical Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Atlanta Georgia-Pacific Corp., Bellingham Scott and Tammy Gish Anne and D. Wayne Gittinger Estate of Richard Greene Charles Grinstein Gerald and Carolyn Grinstein Estate of Monica C. Gutchow Hach Scientific Foundation Estate of Carroll Haeske Richard and Sylvia Haggen Haggen Foods Inc. Don and Kathy Haggen Rick and Sylvia Haggen Robert and Nancy Hamilton David Hamiter Mark H. and Blanche M. Harrington Foundation Dolores Harrington Scott Harrington Red and Betty Haskell Herbert Hearsey Thomas and Martina Horn Foundation Karen Hulford Alma Wilson Jackson Eleanor and Hank Jansen Foundation Estate of Torleif Johnson Johnson and Johnson K2 Corp. Nicholas and Markell Kaiser Kaiser Borsari Educational Trust Doug Keith Estate of Ruth Kelsey Key Foundation Frank and Mary King Kreielsheimer Foundation Wilbur and Linda Kukes KVOS TV Inc David LaRocque Daniel and Pandora Larner Niels Lauersen Lions Hearing Foundation MD 19 Midge Loser and Fran Frazier Dennis Madsen David Mason Estate of Miriam Snow Mathes Scott and Cresty McCraw Allen and Josephine McNeill Estate of Gertrude Meriwether Microsoft Corp. John and Karleen Miller Robert and Margaret Miller H. 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Stokes Stuart Foundation Patricia Swenson Jason Tafoya Kathleen Taft John Tholen Julie and Joseph Thomer Reilly and Peter Thomer Steve Thompson Donald and Marjorie Thorson Jean Towne US Bank Kelly Guise Vuletic Charles Wilder Wilder Construction Co. Women of Western Estate of Paul Woodring Virginia and Bagley Wright WWU Associated Students Estate of Thomas D. Wynn Joe and Anneliese Zauchner Frank “Moose” and Vi Zurline LIFETIME MEMBERS 4D Graphics Inc. Henry and Frances Adams Aftermath Club American Association of University Women, Bellingham Rick Anderson Ulmer S. and Irene M. Anderson Anonymous Apple Computer Inc. Chappelle Arnett AT&T Wireless Herbert Baird Lucille Barron Michael and Kristine Bartanen Battelle Pacific NW Natl Labs Bellingham Chrysler Center The Bellingham Herald Bellingham Travel and Cruise Service Inc. Earl and Surang Benson Warren and Jeannie Bergholz Bradford E. Blue Roberta A. Bouverat BP America Inc. Pauline Bradley and Ivan Gilliand Bristol-Myers Squibb Britax Heath Tecna Inc. Willard and Anne Brown Builders Alliance Joe and Margaret Orem Frances Koster Byford Caitac USA Corp. John Callan Louella Carlile Zachary Casper CHEF Foundation Chevron Corp. Ark and Winnie Chin Chiron Corp. Chrysler Canada Richard Clark Dorothy Clement Coca-Cola/Thriftway Stores Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Bellingham Inc. Coherent Inc. Craig and Susan Cole David and Denise Cole Robert and Constance Collier Comcast Cable Communications Inc. Comcast Spotlight ConocoPhillips Dale Courtney Kenneth and Nona Cox Thomas Crowell Diehl Ford Inc. Birrell A. Dinnetz James J. Doud Jr. Barbara F. and Stephen A. Duzan Dwayne Lane Family of Auto Centers Marie Eaton and Mary Ellen O’Keefe Education Commission of the States The Eldec Corporation George and Joanne Emmett Bent Faber Fairhaven Lions Club James and Krista Ferguson Paul and Mary Ann Ford D. 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James Paden Lou Parberry Foundation Manfred and Diane Parker Ingeborg Paulus and Roy Potter Michael Penley Peoples Bank Irwin and Frances LeCocq Charles amd MaryLee LeCocq J. Ward Phillips Joseph and Ann Pless Sam and Joyce Porter The Presser Foundation Jerry Price and Nancy Sherer Puget Sound Energy, Mount Vernon Quadra Beverage Ken and Donna Graham Gary and Jamie Krause R/COM Inc. Charles R. Ryan Kirk Radke Recreational Equipment Inc. Bill Reed and Marcella Fleming Reed William Reinard Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Rinne David and Carol Robinson Roger Jobs Motors Inc. James Alan Ross Rossbach Revocable Trust Ron Rudy SAFECO Corp. Floyd and Verna Sandell Sibyl Sanford All gifts to the Western Washington University Foundation are tax deductible as allowed by law. A number of gifts offer particular tax or estate planning advantages that may be useful to you or your family. The Foundation staff will be happy to discuss all gift options in greater detail with you and your attorney or financial planner. Please call (360) 650-3027 for further information. FALL/WINTER 2007 7 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Honor Roll of Donors IN APPRECIATION OF PRIVATE FINANCIAL SUPPORT – 2005–2006 Old Main Society The Old Main Society recognizes alumni and friends who have made arrangements to provide gifts through their estate plans or other planned giving options and provides the opportunity for Western to acknowledge donors' generosity during their lifetimes. These gifts provide for future needs and are an important resource of funding for Western Washington University. Membership in the Old Main Society begins once documentation is completed naming Western as a beneficiary through a bequest, trust, annuity or life insurance plan. If you have included Western Washington University in your estate plans, please notify us so we can also recognize and thank you through the Old Main Society. For more information, contact Deborah DeWees at (360) 650-3622 or email [email protected]. John Abrams Jr. Henry and Frances Adams Evelyn Ames Anonymous Chappelle Arnett Herbert Baird Michael and Kristine Bartanen Tamara Belts Fredericka Bond Stevan Booras Roberta A. Bouverat Stephanie and Richard Bowers Marian L. Boylan Pauline Bradley Ellen Broad Richard D. Broussard R. G. and Florence Brownridge Frances Koster Byford Mary Ann Clark Richard Clark Betty J. 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Horst-Otto Gerberding Distinguished Alumni Award Gerald Webster Distinguished Alumni Award Gerald Webster (’80) is a professor and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama. His several awards Horst-Otto Gerberding (’79) is vice chairman of Symrise GmbH include a Joseph J. Malone Fellowship in Arab and Islamic & Co. KG in Hozminden, Germany, a world leader in the flavor Studies from the National Council on U.S.–Arab Relations. and fragrances industry. Gerberding is a member of Western’s College of Business and Economics Board of Visitors. Dr. Raynald Albert Samoa Distinguished Alumni Award Wendy Wollam Scherreer Lifetime Achievement Award Wendy Wollam Scherrer (’76 and ’88) is executive director for the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association. Scherrer has Dr. Raynald Albert Samoa (’94) is a medical doctor working been inducted into the Wild Salmon Hall of Fame and the at the UCLA Medical Center. He was recently accepted to do Northwest Women’s Hall of Fame. She has received several research at the Mayo Clinic to study pediatric obesity with a environmental achievement awards. focus on how communities of color are affected. FALL/WINTER 2007 9 WWU alumni and friends went backstage to congratulate Aaron St. Clair Nicholson after his debut performance at the Metropolitan Opera. Pictured here with New York alumni and friends are WWU President Karen W. Morse (left) and Stephanie Bowers, vice president for university advancement (right). Photo by Joe Morse Alumni Share in MetropolitanOpera Debut Celebration By Dee Johnson UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS Last spring, WWU President Karen W. Morse began re-arranging her midNovember calendar, clearing her West Coast appointments and meetings and scheduling others on the East Coast. She made plans then to be in New York on November 18 for a very special Metropolitan Opera debut. It was the confirmation of her belief, stated more than 10 years earlier, that Aaron St. Clair Nicholson (’96) would have a starring role in a Metropolitan Opera performance. She had seen him perform in student productions at Western, and she was there when he made his professional operatic debut as Figaro in the Tacoma Opera production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. President Morse invited Nicholson and members of his family to join her for breakfast the morning following that performance. She told him then that she would be watching his career. “Aaron, when you have your debut at the Metropolitan, I will try to come.” she said. Nicholson and President Morse both remember that she said when, not if. A few months later, Nicholson received his bachelor of arts in music from Western. He was named as the Music Department’s Outstanding Graduating Senior. “I kept President Morse apprised of my whereabouts,” Nicholson says. He told her about his Metropolitan Opera debut as soon as the date for his performance as Schaunard in Pucinni’s La Bohème was confirmed. “After the performance, we went across the street for dinner at Café Fiorello. Aaron introduced himself to everyone in the party and spent time talking with everyone. There were about 15 alumni who responded to President Morse’s invitation to attend the opera, plus a few of us who came out from Bellingham, and about 25 family members and friends who also came especially to see Aaron’s performance.” Nicholson discounts any suggestion that his career has been exceptional. “I just want to enjoy myself, meet good people and do good work,” he says. “Opera speaks to me on several different levels. It’s dance. It’s theatre. It’s music. It’s art. I feel honored to be able to perform.” “I’m very proud of the many successes our graduates have,” President Morse says. “One of the most rewarding aspects of being at Western is having opportunities to share in some of these successes. It was thrilling, for example, to see one of our students performing at the Met. Aaron glowed. He looked like he was enjoying himself. He is a talented performer, gifted musically and as an actor. Aaron is also a warm, generous person,” she says. “Well,” she adds, “he is a Western graduate. Hopefully we had something to do with that.” Nicholson says setting goals and working toward them one by one is what has defi ned him as an artist. “My father impressed upon me that the process of how you reach your goals is really who you are.” In 1998, Nicholson started a musical theater workshop in Binghamton, N.Y. His schedule is demanding—he tours about nine months out of the year—and he says the workshops, which are held each summer for youths ages 12 through 18, “help me stay connected to what is important. They are not about business or money, but about performing, creating art and having a good time.” Students are selected by audition. So far, none have been turned away. “I knew she would be coming, and I knew The workshops are hosted at the University of there were some Western alumni who would Binghamton by the Department of Music and President Morse presents Aaron St. Claire Nicholson ('96) with a be there,” he says. “I knew Jessica Israels (‘04) commemorative plaque. Photo by Joe Morse Continuing Education and Outreach. The prowould be there. And of course my father, Bruce gram is being expanded in 2007 to include an overSt. Nicholson (‘84) and my wife Elaine (Tamaru) night schedule so students from a larger geographical area can participate. Nicholson (‘96) would be there. But I didn’t know that President Morse would Western’s Jim Lortz, associate professor of theatre arts, served this past sumbe bringing other alumni with her. It was just an amazing experience to be mer as the workshop’s guest director. able to perform at the Metropolitan Opera for friends and family and to be supported by them. I felt really honored and valued.” Nicholson’s awards include the Richmond F. Gold Career Grant, the Karl 10 “This was a very big event. There was a lot of excitement about honoring one of our own at the Met,” says Stephanie Bowers, Western’s vice president for university advancement. Muller Performance Award, the Seattle Opera Career Incentive Award and the Sullivan Foundation Award. He received a master of music degree in opera from the University of Binghamton. “Aaron did a fabulous job on stage. He also invited us backstage—an experience in itself,” Bowers says. “We traipsed through the guard system, and then he came out of his dressing room and gave President Morse this great big hug. Nicholson performed a benefit concert at Western last spring honoring Virginia Hunter. Hunter, who taught voice as an adjunct member of WWU’s music faculty from 1989 to 2006, was Nicholson’s voice instructor in high school and at Western. Opera Houses Should Be Grateful to Western Met Brings Heidi Grant Murphy Performance to Movie Theaters Audiences and critics are not shy in praising the operatic talent Erin Wall ('98) brings to her performances. Heidi Grant Murphy (’87) is performing in one of six operas the Metropolitan Opera is bringing to select movie theaters this year. She is a featured performer in Puccini’s Il Trittico, which will be broadcast to theaters on April 28 at 1:30 p.m. EST. The Calgary Herald says "she delivers the kind of vocal thrills possible only to those kissed by the divine." In Chicago, The Daily Southtown reported that Wall showed such "delicacy and superb vocal passion that she almost stopped the show, moving the audience to wild bravos and thunderous applause." The Bellingham Herald, writing about her benefit recital in December, declared that "Opera houses throughout the world should be grateful to Western Washington University." The understated Opera Magazine says simply that she is "destined to go far." Wall has performed with major opera companies in Europe, Canada and the United States. Her awards and career grants include membership in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Center for American Artists, an ARIA Award, a Richard Tucker Award and a Sara Tucker Study Grant. Her December recital benefited the Bellingham Festival of Music. Wall presented a benefit concert at Western in May 2005 honoring her voice teacher, WWU adjunct professor Virginia Hunter. Proceeds were used to establish a vocal performance scholarship in Virginia Hunter's name. A winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Young Artist Development Program, Murphy made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 1989 production of Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten. She has performed with many of the world’s fi nest opera companies and symphony orchestras. Murphy has been a featured guest on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered and A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts. She received a WWU Distinguished Alumni Award in October 2005. Six Metropolitan Opera performances are being broadcast live into select movie theaters equipped with high definition screens and surround sound. Location and ticket information is available at www.metoperafamily.org/metopera. The April 28 Il Trittico matinee performance will also be broadcast over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network. This is the first season that Metropolitan Opera performances have been broadcast to movie theaters. The first Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast aired Christmas Day 1931. Renewing Connections To Western Chris Abbott (‘97), a private investment manager for Lehman Brothers in New York, attended Aaron Nicholson’s Metropolitan Opera debut. “My father shared a table with Dr. Morse at a Battle in Seattle event and brought her up to date on what I’m doing," Abbott says. "When Aaron’s debut was announced, Dr. Morse was nice enough to extend a personal invitation to me to participate in this celebration.“ Abbott says he appreciated the opportunity to talk with President Morse and to meet other alumni in the New York area. “It gave me a little more sense of wanting to reconnect with Western. When I’m on the West Coast, I will plan to swing by the campus.” When Heidi Johnson (‘95) and her husband Michael Hill (‘97) received an invitation to attend Aaron Nicholson’s Metropolitan Opera debut, they were happy to accept. “It’s always wonderful to go to the Met, but this performance was very special,” Johnson says. “I played flute in the pit when Nicholson performed in Western’s production of La Bohème. It was great to see him perform again and to be back in touch with Western.” As an undergraduate, Johnson was interested in both music and East Asian studies. She began working with professor Kathleen Tomlonovic—a “Western treasure” she calls her—and decided to major in East Asian Studies. She moved to New York 10 years ago to work at the China Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting Chinese art, culture and languages. She is now the program officer for Expanding East Asian Studies, a grant-funded program at Columbia University. Hill is also at Columbia University, where he is finishing his doctorate in Chinese Literature. President Karen W. Morse enjoys a reception and dinner for WWU alumni and friends following Aaron St. Clair Nicholson's Metropolitan Opera debut. The dinner, held at Café Fiorello, was arranged by Western's Alumni Association. 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WWU alumni and friends enjoy a salmon barbecue, held September 9 in Olympia. Stay connected and check out upcoming events at www.wwualumni.com Cassandra Baddeley Receives Milken Family Foundation Award Cassandra Baddeley (’01), a fifth grade teacher at Seattle’s Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, tells her students at the beginning of the year what they’re going to achieve by the end of the year. “They don’t believe me,” she says, “but I make it clear that I’m going to help them and, if they just listen and do what I ask, they will achieve much more than they expected. I haven’t had any students who weren’t able to feel successful by the end of the year.” The goals she sets are individualized. “I would never think that what was right for one student was right for another. You have to know your students, form a relationship. You get to know what is just a little bit out of their reach so you can help them achieve it.” Baddeley always knew she wanted to be a teacher. Still, when she came to Western, she was unsure of her goal. “I don’t think I believed in myself at the time, but I had great professors. I had professors who really believed in me,” she says. Baddeley has lived up to their expectations. On Oct. 4, during a school assembly, she was presented with a prestigious Milken Family Foundation Award honoring her ability to instill confidence and motivate students. The award includes a $25,000 honorarium. The presentation caused some excitement—students knew something special was happening when cameras and reporters showed up for their school assembly—but Baddeley says things quickly settled down to normal. “We’re about business. We went back to class and the first thing my kids said was, ‘Now, what’s for homework?’” 18 Accent ACCENT on Alumni ON ALUMNI Gilman and Dietrich Return to Campus Roger Gilman and Bill Dietrich both received undergraduate degrees from Fairhaven College in 1973. Both returned to Western’s campus this year. Photo of Sharon Wallace leading a kindergarten class (spring 1947). Photo credit: Jack Carver, courtesy of Whatcom Museum of History and Art Celebrating Campus Memories Campus School Reunion August 25 to 26 — Were you a student, faculty member or student teacher at Western's Campus School? If so, you will want to return in August for a very special Campus School Reunion. Generations of children were educated at Western's Campus School, which opened in 1901 to provide practicum experience for teachers in training. The Campus School moved from Old Main to the bell-tower section of what is now Miller Hall in 1942. Education majors since 1967, when the school was closed, have done their practicums in area schools. Western’s Woodring College of Education, in partnership with the WWU Alumni Association and Wilson Libraries, has been collecting materials for a Whatcom Museum of History and Art Campus School Experience exhibit. The exhibit will run from June 10, 2007 to January 6, 2008 and will include oral and written memories, photographs, student work, curriculum materials and any other memorabilia associated with the school. For information about events that are planned, contact Carole Morris, Woodring College of Education, (360) 650-4419 or [email protected]. To offer memories or donate items— it isn't too late —contact Tamara Belts, Western Libraries Special Collections, (360) 650-3193 or tamara.belts@wwu. edu. Items may be donated to Western’s Special Collections or loaned to the Whatcom Museum of History and Art specifically for the exhibit. Roger Gilman Roger Gilman welcomed the opportunity to return to Western as the new dean of Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies. “It’s very rare to get the opportunity to go home again,” he says. “Having received a wonderful education at Fairhaven, I am thrilled to come back and help build on the College’s great reputation.” Former classmates Dalene Perrigo ('56) and Liz Coward ('56) share memories during the 2006 Golden Vikings Reunion. Golden Vikings Reunion August 23 to 26 — If you graduated in 1957 or earlier, you are invited to come back to campus for Western's annual Golden Vikings Reunion, scheduled this year concurrently with the Campus School Reunion. Edens Hall will be the focal point for many social events, a setting that will bring back memories as you spend time reminiscing with classmates and new friends. You'll have opportunities to attend educational seminars, meet with President Karen W. Morse, take a guided tour of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection, enjoy a Summer Stock production, take in a planetarium show and fi nd out what's happening in Western classrooms. Watch for your special invitation this summer or contact Western's Alumni Association. Call (360) 650-3353 or (80 0) 676 -6885 or email alumni@ wwu.edu. Gilman has extensive experience in interdisciplinary studies. He has lectured at numerous universities, both in the United States and abroad, and has been recognized with several awards in teaching, service and research. While at Northeastern Illinois University, he collaborated on the invention of a new method of teaching research ethics across the curriculum. He also developed a pre-law advising program. Like other Fairhaven students, Gilman’s undergraduate experience was writing intensive, and his interest in writing has continued. He is the former poetry editor of The Chicago Review. Currently, he is working on a book titled The Ecology of Value. After receiving a bachelor’s degree with honors from Fairhaven, Gilman continued his studies at the University of Chicago, earning a master’s degree in the philosophy of science and a doctorate in philosophy. Before returning to Western, he served as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern Illinois University. Gilman succeeds Ron Riggins, who served as dean at Fairhaven College from 2002 to 2006 and as acting dean from 2000 to 2002. Riggins also served as interim dean from 1993 to 1994. He joined the Western faculty in 1977. Bill Dietrich Bill Dietrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, says returning to Western "is a great fit for me personally. It would be rewarding to inspire a student to become a science writer." Dietrich has joined the facult y of Western’s Huxley College of the Environment. He is teaching an environmental journalism class and also is serving as advisor to The Planet magazine. The Planet, created by students at Huxley College and now supported by the University, had not yet been launched when Dietrich was an undergraduate. He did write for Western’s Klipsun magazine and says it was one of the “most useful things I did in college.” Dietrich was part of the Seattle Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. He also covered the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. In 1992, Dietrich published his first nonfiction book, “The Final Forest,” which was the culmination of his reporting about the spotted owl and the old growth forest debate. His second book, “Northwest Passage,” is an environmental and cultural history of the Columbia River. He achieved a lifelong goal to publish a novel with the 1998 release of “Ice Reich,” a World War II bio-terrorism thriller. Dietrich continues to write part time for the Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine and is working on his seventh novel. He graduated from Fairhaven College with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 1987 to 1988. Contributed by Kari Neumeyer and Dee Johnson, University Communications WERE YOU A RUNNING START STUDENT AT WESTERN? If so, Martin Hickman, a reporter for The Western Front, would like to talk with you. To reach Hickman, please call (206) 335-4760 or email [email protected]. FALL/WINTER 2007 19 CALENDAR Season of the Arts FEBRUARY 7 Distinguished Lecture Series, Anna Deavere Smith, 6:30 p.m, on campus, free but tickets are required, information at (360) 650-7545 or www.lectureseries.wwu.edu 8 Men's Basketball WWU vs. St. Martin's, pre-game pep rally and dinner, 6 p.m. (game at 7:30 p.m.), at St. Martin's, Lacey Pac Series 10 Seventh Annual Day Trip to Whistler, BC Anoushk Shankar 20 Higher Education Day, Olympia Friday, April 6, 7:30 p.m 21 Turning Points Faculty Speaker Series, Steve Globerman, 5:15 p.m., on campus Trained by her father, sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar's uses both acoustic and electric instruments to create music that transcends genre and geographical boundaries. MARCH 2 Alumni Day at Phoenix Botanical Gardens (reception and wine tasting will follow), Phoenix, Ariz. 3 WWU Alumni Day at Spring Training Camp, Seattle Mariners vs. San Diego Padres, Peoria, Ariz. 17 South Puget Sound Chapter, Annual Theatre Performance, "Aint Misbehavin," 2 p.m., Capital Playhouse, Olympia (reception will follow performance) PAC Mainstage Theatre – Tickets: $16–$25 APRIL Ethos Percussion Group 3 Seattle Business Forum, 11:30 a.m., featuring Kerry Killinger, chairman and CEO of Washington Mutual, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle Saturday, May 19, 7:30 p.m This critically acclaimed ensemble integrates global instruments and playing styles into the context of Western chamber music, creating a magical audience experience. 22 Alumni Volunteer Earth Day Celebration and Clean-up, 10 a.m. to noon, various Washington and California cities MAY PAC Concert Hall – Tickets: $16–$23 5 WWU Alumni at Yankee Stadium, New York Yankees vs. Seattle Mariners, tailgate party and game, New York, NY Sanford Piano Series 23 Alumni Reception and Dinner, opening performance of "The Importance of Being Earnest," 5:30 p.m. (performance at 7:30 p.m.), on campus Alexander Ardakov Friday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m PAC Concert Hall – Tickets: $9–$16 Sara Davis Buechner PAC Concert Hall – Tickets: $9–$16 The Sanford Piano Series is sponsored by the Spirit Fund of Whatcom Community Foundation. Proceeds support the Arthur Hicks and Ford Hill Piano Scholarships. The College of Fine and Performing Arts brings internationally acclaimed artists to Western. Tickets are available at the WWU Box Office, (360) 650-6146, and online at tickets.wwu.edu. Discount prices are available to WWU Alumni Association members. For more infor-mation, visit www.ac.wwu.edu/cfpa Photo credit: Cole Kozloff for frequency, The Snowboarder's Journal, www.frequncysnowbording.com Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p.m This photo of WWU student Sean McKilop was taken by Cole Kozloff ('05) and published in issue 5.3 of frequency, The Snowboarder's Journal. Kozloff is the owner of One Mountain, a snowboard apparel company. The staff at frequency includes several Western alumni: Group Publisher/Editor Jeff Galbraith ('90), Senior Editor John Laing ('06) and Director of Sales and Marketing Matt Wibby ('05). Grant Gunderson ('05) has been selected as photo editor of the group's newest publication, The Ski Journal, which will launch in early 2007. Like frequency, this journal is a coffee table book available by subscription and at select bookstores and specialty retailers. More information is available at www.frequencysnowboarding.com and www.theskijournal.com. You may have had the pleasure of speaking with Sean McKilop during our annual WWU Phonathon campaign in October. McKilop was one of the friendly students calling alumni and parents for their support. (360) 650-6146 Tickets & Information http://calendar.wwu.edu 20 Alumni events (360) 650-3353 or (800) 676-6885 Athletics (360) 650-3109 WWU Box Office (360) 650-6146 Western Gallery (360) 650-3900 Wilson Library Hours (360) 650-3049
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