Campus Connections

Issue Date: February 11, 2008

News and Notices

C.E.S. Wood documentary filmed at Lewis & Clark airs tonight on OPB

Last fall, documentary filmmaker Laurence Cotton visited Lewis & Clark to film a documentary titled “C.E.S. Wood,” for the television show Oregon Experience.

An artist, writer, civic leader, and prominent Portland attorney, Charles Erskine Scott Wood is best remembered as a longtime friend of Chief Joseph. As a young West Point graduate, Wood fought in the tragic Nez Perce War of 1877, and he is credited with recording Chief Joseph’s famous surrender speech. Wood later became a lawyer, civic leader, and defender of civil liberties in Portland who left the American Bar Association over its refusal to admit African Americans. He was a leader in Portland’s literary community and played a key role in the founding of Portland’s first library and art museum. The phrase Wood penned for an engraving on Portland’s Skidmore Fountain in 1888—“Good citizens are the riches of a city”—has long served as a guiding light for the Rose City.

Cotton filmed interviews with Wood’s great grandchildren and Wood historians in the Manor House and the Erskine Wood Library at the law school.

“The Wood archives from the Special Collections, were an absolutely crucial source of visual images, utilized throughout the program,” said Cotton. “Special thanks to Paul Merchant, Jeremy Skinner and Doug Erickson for their invaluable support and good service.”

“Oregon Experience: C.E.S. Wood” airs on Monday, February 11, at 9 p.m., Wednesday, February 13, at 3 a.m., and Sunday, February 17, at 1 p.m.

Library staff member exhibits his paintings of Portland’s streetscape at Watzek

Each morning, David Shratter, an accomplished local artist and assistant supervisor of circulation at Watzek Library, props his easel on a Portland street corner and paints. His paintings picture gritty industrial scenes in southeast Portland and grungy loading docks in the Pearl District. He spends at least three hours painting before coming to work, five days a week.

When Doug Erickson, head of Watzek Library’s special collections and college archivist, approached Shratter about exhibiting his work in the library, Shratter was delighted.

“The 16 years that I’ve worked at the library have been the most productive years for me as an artist,” said Shratter. “I feel honored and respected that they asked me to do this.”

Shratter said his library colleagues are supportive of him as a person—as a colleague working in the library and as an artist.

“Very few artists survive just by making art,” said Shratter. “Life becomes fragmented and making art is often separate from going to work for a living. They don’t usually integrate.”

Shratter’s neo-ashcan cityscapes of Portland and pen and ink drawings are on display in the atrium of the Watzek Library through May.

Faculty and staff give record amount to charity

Lewis & Clark’s Charitable Giving Campaign for 2007, “Healing the Earth, Helping our Neighbors,” raised a record amount of $33,736 in donations from faculty and staff.

“I'm extremely proud of the way our college community has supported healing our environment and reaching out to help those in need in our city and region,” said Mark Duntley, dean of the chapel and campaign coordinator. “This past year alone we had a 10% increase in giving.”

Over the past ten years, the campaign has raised more than $266,000 to support the Black United Fund of Oregon, the United Way, and Earth Share of Oregon. These agencies in turn provide essential financial resources to more than 130 nonprofit agencies that help meet vital health and human services and environmental needs. Donating by check, credit card, and payroll deduction, 140 Lewis & Clark staff and faculty participated in the 2007 campaign and helped support the wider Portland metropolitan community.

Information on the Charitable Giving Campaign results can be found online.

Company’s coming!

Next week, roughly ninety admitted students from across the country will visit the Fir Acres Campus to attend classes, spend two nights in the residence halls, and mingle with the Lewis & Clark community. The students have been admitted to the College of Arts and Sciences under the College’s nonbinding early action program.

“College Preview is an opportunity for these students to get a real sense of the college experience over the course of three days,” said Emily Decker, senior associate dean of admissions. “Meeting faculty and current students provides them with a first-hand experience as a member of our community and historically, we have found this program to have a positive impact on the percentage of students that decide to enroll.”

Students will visit campus from Thursday, February 21 to Saturday, February 23. Members of the campus community can help these visitors feel welcome by wearing College nametags and by sharing a friendly smile!

IT offers spring classes

Information Technology offers ongoing computer training courses. During the next two weeks, these classes are available: Advanced Trillium, MeetingMaker, Thunderbird E-mail, Photoshop (2-part), and Creating Forms in Adobe Acrobat. For more information, contact IT at extension 7020.

People News

New faces, new titles

Several people have joined the community recently, and some continuing employees have taken on new roles and responsibilities at Lewis & Clark. They include the following:

K’Lyn Bain, general maintenance, Facilities Services; Zenobia Baugh, administrative specialist, President’s Office; Thomas Buchele, clinical professor and managing attorney of the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, Law School; Katie Callison, benefits coordinator, Human Resources; Lucrecia Choto, assistant director, Overseas and Off-Campus Programs; Carma Corcoran, coordinator, Indian Law Program, Law School; Margaret Drinkwater, gallery attendant, Hoffman Gallery; Tamara Ko, administrative assistant, Dean of the College; Khela Singer-Adams, employee program development manager, Human Resources; Amy Timmins, administrative coordinator; International Affairs and Political Science; Margaret Thomson, executive assistant, Development Office and Dean’s Office, Law School.

Printed, presented, honors, and achievements

Faculty and staff serve as ambassadors for the College through their publications, presentations, awards, grants, and other accomplishments. Highlights include:

Adrienne Enriquez, associate dean of admissions and director of multicultural recruitment, has been selected to serve on the Citizen’s Budget Review Committee of the Portland Public Schools Board of Education. The group is charged with the task of reviewing and making recommendations on the Superintendent’s proposed budget.

Kim Stafford, associate professor and director of the Northwest Writing Institute, has been appointed Pacific Northwest College of Art’s (PNCA) first Writer-In-Residence.

More listings of faculty and staff achievements can be found in our online newsroom.

Lewis & Clark in the news

College faculty and staff are in the news on a regular basis. Recent media appearances include:

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Campuses nationwide take creative approaches to climate-change event

More than 1,750 colleges and organizations highlighted climate change as part of Focus the Nation, which Professor of Economics Eban Goodstein organized as a way for professors to engage the next generation in environmental awareness.

Denver Post: Dems may see superdelegate "chaos"

Associate Professor of Political Science Robert Eisinger offers perspective about the impact of superdelegates on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s battle for the Democratic Party’s nomination in the presidential election.

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Events

Performing Arts

Feb. 11 Poetry Slam Featuring National Finalist Jon Sands

Feb. 23 Once Upon a Weekend

Athletics

Feb. 15 Women’s Basketball vs. George Fox

Feb. 15 Men’s Basketball vs. George Fox

Lectures, Seminars, and Symposia

Feb. 12 How Nature Chooses its Shape: The Mathematics of Soap Films

Feb. 12 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. De-Ann Pillars

Feb. 16 Great Tribal Leaders of Modern Times: Great Women Leaders

Feb. 18 Physics Colloquium: Modern Physics and Modern Art

Feb. 19 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Sam Kuhn

Feb. 21 Steinhardt Lecture: “Give Us Your Poor, Your Tired, Your Huddled Masses Longing to Be Free – The Economics and Policy of Immigration to the U.S.”

Feb. 22 “What is Acquired in Reid’s Acquired Perception?”: Associate Professor of Philosophy Rebecca Copenhaver

Feb. 24 “The Art Within the Architecture”: Paul Thiry and the Respectful Integration of the Pacific Northwest’s Cultural and National Environment

Special Events

Feb. 12 Community & Career Connections Spring Fair

Feb. 17 Catholic Eucharist

Feb. 21 Sam Witt Poetry Reading

Upcoming

Visit the campus Web calendar for events coming up in February.