L&C Magazine
Fall 2012
Cover Story
Tough Questions
How can we address some of today’s most vexing issues? Seven alumni experts share their best ideas.
Featured Stories
Building Equity in Oregon’s Classrooms
Lewis & Clark graduate school faculty, students, and alumni—particularly those associated with the Doctor of Education in Leadership program—are playing key roles in envisioning greater equity in Oregon’s schools.
Legal Education Goes Global
Legal Education Goes Global
Living Science
Lewis & Clark’s cognitive research comes to life at OMSI.
Bike Paths
Lewis & Clark alumni pursue diverse careers in America’s best city for bicycling.
Message from the President
The Liberal Arts Edge
“When you get out into the workforce, you have to have flexibility. What I learned at Lewis & Clark really gave me a leg up,” Ho‘onani Andermann BA ’07 said during our Reunion Weekend in June. She’s a clinical analyst and product informatics specialist at TeamPraxis, a provider of healthcare IT solutions in Honolulu.
On Palatine Hill
New to the Board
Lewis & Clark’s Board of Trustees recently welcomed two new members.
Fall Events
What’s Happening on campus in the fall.
Buzz
A miscellany of the new, the intriguing, and the obscure.
Men’s Crew: All in the Same Boat
Portland at 5 a.m. in early spring might as well be the middle of the night. The few awake are likely new parents, bread bakers, night shift workers headed home to bed—and members of Pioneer Men’s Crew, en route to a 5:30 a.m. practice.
PioSports
Sports updates
The Namesake of the New Holmes Hall
“Ye gads, a one-track town.”
Edna Levy Frank was underwhelmed. It was 1915 and the daughter of a successful San Francisco jeweler had just moved to Portland after marrying Lloyd Frank, a scion of the Meier & Frank department store family.
Edna Levy Frank was underwhelmed. It was 1915 and the daughter of a successful San Francisco jeweler had just moved to Portland after marrying Lloyd Frank, a scion of the Meier & Frank department store family.
Congratulations, Graduates of 2012
“Three pieces of advice for the class of 2012: First, hunt the good stuff in life; spend your time finding out what’s right in your life and what’s right in the world. Second, live around your strengths, not around your weaknesses. Third, live life optimistically.”
Students Garner National Awards
Last spring, Lewis & Clark students and alumni claimed a bounty of national awards and honors in recognition of their academic excellence and commitment to global service.
Returning Home to Afghanistan
After 40 years at Lewis & Clark, Professor of Education Zaher Wahab is “retiring” to work full time in his home country of Afghanistan.
Ratte Award Winner Strikes the Right Chord
Called a “true Renaissance man,” Ethan Allred BA ’12 is the winner of the 2012 Rena J. Ratte Award, the undergraduate college’s highest academic honor.
$1 Million For Science Education
Improving the quality of science education is a top national priority, as seen in President Barack Obama’s commitment to prepare 100,000 new science, technology, engineering, and math teachers in the next decade.
Mathematician, Law Prof Named Top Teachers
Each year, students from the College of Arts and Sciences and Lewis & Clark Law School reflect on the extraordinary teaching of their respective professors and select one for top teaching honors.
Profiles
Faculty of Lewis & Clark Remembered
Gus Mattersdorff, professor emeritus of economics, Carolyn Bullard, longtime member of the faculty and former dean of the graduate school, Franya Berkman, assistant professor of music
In Tune With Early Music
Under the stone arches of Sant’Eufemia, a 12th-century church in Spoleto, Italy, Grant Herreid took up his lute. His fingers moved deftly across the strings, plucking a melody line that may have been familiar to the church’s first parishioners.
Rowing Her Way to the 2012 Olympics
Amy Clay Ives BA ’01 joined teammates rowing for Australia in the women’s quadruple sculls. Her team finished fourth in the finals, just behind Ukraine, Germany, and the United States.
The Science of Stellar Teaching
While a student at St. Mary’s Academy, a high school for girls in Portland, Maureen Daschel used to sit with rapt attention as Sister Rosemary Ann Parker loaded filmstrips into the projector. Barely able to contain her enthusiasm, Daschel concentrated on images of what was then cutting-edge science, cast on a pull-down screen.
Alumni News
Afterword
Afterword
Alaina Green CAS ’13 is double majoring in physics and math. She works in the Math Skills Center and helps organize Physics Club activities. Off campus, she serves as a volunteer mentor in robotics for middle and high school students.
