L&C Magazine

Andrew Beckham BA ’98, MAT ’01 balances teaching with winemaking.

Current students collect oral histories of students past.

Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts provides legal assistance to Portland’s vibrant arts community.

Lewis & Clark alumni play strategic roles in the fast-paced Portland mayor’s office.

In an old barn once used to store hops for beer making, Tracy Schlapp listened to stories told by creative thinkers. Periodically, she stopped to hand-set wooden type onto her antique letterpress. After inking the type, she pulled the press’s handle, churning out broadsides, one print at a time, based on the speakers’ ideas.

Portland Timbers games are rousing affairs, 
especially at the north end of the stadium. Whenever the soccer team scores a goal, mascot Timber Joey fires up his chainsaw to cut 
off a slab of wood from a fallen log. At the 
end of the game, players ceremoniously gather on the field and hoist the slabs over their heads as the fans roar.

In 1970, Platoon Sgt. Roger Ferland was 
leading a patrol in the jungle near Da Nang, Vietnam. Moving stealthily through the brush, he heard an ominous click before an explosion blew him into the air. The blast severed both his legs and shattered his right arm.

Professor Curtis Johnson’s new book 
examines the role of chance in Darwin’s work on evolution.