Richard W. Etulain has
just published a long overview history of the American West, Beyond the
Missouri: The Story of the American West (Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico Press, 2006). He is beginning work on a study of Abraham Lincoln and the
American West.
A new
revised and expanded edition of Treasures in the Trunk by Mary Cross will
be available after the first of the year as Quilts
of the Oregon Trail. Additions include new historic quilts,
additional genealogical research into each family, and new information
regarding settlement and community development. The new publisher is Schiffer
Books.
Mary's
exhibition of her work is on display until the end of the year at Albina
Community Bank at NW 10th and Glisan. It is titled New Woolen Quilts: Drawn
from Tradition.
Diane Goeres-Gardner
was the keynote speaker at the Columbia County Historical Society annual dinner
meeting in St. Helens on Thurs. Dec. 14,. discussing Justice in Frontier Oregon and the hanging
that took place in St. Helens in 1902.
Michael
Helquist
presented a lecture titled "K.A.J. Mackenzie, Marie Equi and the Oregon
Doctor Train: Portland's Response to the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake" on
May 12 at the Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland. The
narrative-with-slides can be viewed online
Harry
Stein's book, Gus
J. Solomon: Liberal Politics, Jews, and the Federal Courts, has been
published by The Oregon Historical Society Press, in conjunction with the U.S.
District Court of Oregon Historical Society. This is his eighth book.
From public power to civil liberties and equal rights, Judge Gus J. Solomon
(19061987) was a grassroots liberal leader who helped shape the way Oregonians
live. After two decades as a legal and political activist in the 1930s and
1940s, he was appointed to the U.S. District Court for Oregon, where he sat as
a highly influential and the longest serving federal judge in the state. Harry tells the story of this smart and combative
figure against the changing backdrop of 20th-century American law, politics,
and life, particularly in Oregon. On and off the bench, Solomon honored liberal
traditions and Jewish social justice values while abhorring anti-Semitism,
racism, and other national and international ills.
Michael
Meo has articles
on the physicist Jakov Dorfman and the astronomer Dmitry Dubiao
coming out in
The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian,
Soviet, and Eurasian History.
Harry
Stein has been
awarded the Castles Fellowship by The Center for Columbia River History to work
on Fighting for a Columbia River Basin Aluminum Industry and for itself:
The Bonneville Power Administration, 1939-1949.
Because of the Fellowship, he gave a
public talk in Portland will in January 2007 submit an
article on this topic to a journal.
Steven
Weiner is profiled
in the Ashland Tidings on March 24. A website for his publication The Suspicious
Humanist is also available.
David
Ritchie's poem
on a dance competition appeared in the Oregonian on June 18th.
Mike
Munk's article
"The Diaries of Helen Lawrence Walters," appears in the current
(Winter, 2005) issue of the Oregon
Historical Quarterly. Helen was an artist in Portland before World
War I and intimately chronicled the local Bohemia--especially its art
scene--and was Louise Bryant's closest friend when her affair with John Reed
began.
KBOO
(90.7 fm radio) aired a roundtable discussion by
three Portland women writers Wednesday, March 8, at 1:30 p.m.
Women Writing Women's Lives: a round-table discussion by Portland authors
and NISA members Carole Glauber, Sara Halprin, and Sandy
Polishuk about the challenges and rewards of writing about the lives of
their extraordinary subjects.
This
discussion grew out of the panel offered at the NISA/NCIS conference this
October.
A successful one-day conference sponsored by the Northwest Independent
Scholars Association and co-sponsored by the National Coalition of
Independent Scholars.on "Selling Your
Scholarship: Writing Marketable Non-Fiction" took
place on Saturday, October 8th. 2005, at the Pacific Northwest College of Art,
1241 NW Johnson St .in Portland. from 9:00 A. M. to 5:00 P.M The keynote
speaker was Robert Kanigel, Professor of
Science Writing in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Writing
and Humanistic Studies and author of numerous books and articles including The
Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Scribner's, 1991), and
Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty (Macmillan, 1986).
Panels and workshops included:
Author
Panel: Selling the first book, how I did it. Jude Seigel, Herb Beals ,
moderator, Sharan Newman
Workshop:
How to transform scholarly writing into gripping non-fiction, Dennis Stovall
Panel:
Off the Page: Writing and selling a documentary. Bryan Cooper, Eve
Epstein, Georgia Wright
Workshop:
Narrative Nonfiction: Using Personal Experience to Attract New Readers: Lisa
Dale Norton
Author
and Editor Panel: Freelancing non-fiction .
Carla Starret-Bigg , Harry
Stein, Andrew Giarelli, moderator, Lisa Dale
Norton
Agent
Panel: What an agent does and how to get one, Cristina Concepcion, Bert Krages, moderator, Ellen Huppert
Workshop:
Writing for a Local Audience. Diane Gorres-Gardner, Michael McGregor,
Laura Foster, moderator: Thomas Snyder
Author Panel:
Writing and Selling Biographies, Carol Glauber, Sandy Polishuk, Sara
Halprin, moderator, Mahala Yates Stipling
Publisher
Panel: Publishing in the Pacific Northwest, Marianne Keddington-Lang , Lake Boggin
Workshop;
Getting a Grant to Support Your Writing. Georgia Wright, Margaret
DeLacy
Panel:
Writing from life: Maura Conlon-McIvor, Richard Speer, moderator, Joanne
Lafler
Workshop:
The Book is Sold, Now What Do I Do? Sharan Newman, David Cowlitz,
with comments by David Ritchie
ACCOMPLISHMENTS BY
OUR MEMBERS: ARCHIVES 2004-5
Peter
Abrahams has published an article entitled "Telescopes Lofted to Space: An
Historical Chronology" in The New Astronomy, Opening the
Electromagnetic Window and Expanding Our View of Planet Earth: A Meeting to
Honor Woody Sullivan on his 60th Birthday, Edited by Wayne Orchiston. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, pp. 203-214.
The
publishers of Historia Mathematica have notified
Michael Meo that his article, "The Mathematical Life
of Cauchy's Theorem," is one of the five most frequently downloaded
articles published during the course of 2004. Readers paid for each
download!
Sharan Newman has published two books this fall. You can read all
about The Witch in the Well, the latest installment of the Catherine LeVendeur mysteries and The Real History Behind
the Da Vinci Code on her website: http://www.sharannewman.com/levendeur/index.html
Carole
Glauber has
received a research grant from the National Coalition of Independent Scholars
(NCIS) for her work on "Eva Watson-Schütze: Photographic Politics,
Progressivism, and the Avant-Garde".
Robert
Newman's book Enola
Gay and the Court of History has been published by Peter Lang
Margaret
DeLacy's comment
"The 'No Child' Law's Biggest Victims? An Answer that May
Surprise" appeared in Education Week on June 23
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
BY OUR MEMBERS: ARCHIVES 2003
Peter
Abrahams gave a
presentation on Solar Telescopes from 1600 to 1900 at Portland State on October
30th., 2003.
A
profile of Carole Glauber appears in Women in Photography
International. Go to the site and click on the thumbnail photo next
to Carole's name.
Margaret
DeLacy's review
of Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden appears
in The Independent Scholar, Vol. XVII number 3 (summer 2003). Margaret is
also happy to report that the ACCESS program of Portland Public Schools for
highly gifted students is up at running at Sabin Elementary. She chaired
the task force that proposed the program.
Sharon
Wood Wortman was
awarded a Frances Shaw award from the Ragdale
Writers' Colony in Illinois to work on a new publication. The one month fellowship will enable her to focus on her
writing.
Mary
Cross is
curating an exhibit entitled "QUILTS Heirlooms from the Homefront"
which will appear at the Museum of the Oregon Territory, 211 Tumwater Drive,
Oregon City, October 12 through January 5th. The exhibit features quilts never before shown in the Pacific Northwest. On
Veteran's Day, at 7:00 P.M. there will be an Oregon Commission for the
Humanities' Chautauqua presentation, "The Last Rose".
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
BY OUR MEMBERS: ARCHIVES, 2002
Margaret
DeLacy's review
of Irvine Loudon, The Tragedy of Childbed Fever appears in the December, 2001 issue of Isis (Vol. 92, no. 4).
Michael
Meo's
history of Cauchy's theorem in permutation groups, presented in a talk to NISA
members several years ago, has been accepted by Historia Mathematica for
publication, pending revision. Historia Mathematica is the leading
scholarly journal on the history of mathematics. The work has
swelled to over 50 pages in length; it is to be pared for its public debut.
Susan
Butruille
presented "Uppity Women of the West" in a round-up of women who made
their own way in the Old West in the Tigard Public Library. The program
was sponsored by Live at Your Library, an initiative of the American Library
Association.
Michael
Munk's review of a new abridgement of Dubofsky's history of the IWW, We Shall Be All, appears in
the current (Winter, 2001-2) issue of the Pacific Northwest Quarterly.
Carole
Glauber's review
of Ambassadors of Progress American
Women Photographers in Paris 1900-1901 has appeared in Women In
Photography International. To see Carole's review go to http//www.WomenInPhotography.org/wipihome.html
click on f2 ezine and click on book reviews. You can find more of
Carole's reviews in the archives for this journal.
Carole recently gave a slide talk
entitled "Trials and Triumphs of Oregon Photographer Myra Albert
Wiggins" as a guest of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission series
"Discovering Oregon Originals" at the Central Library.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
BY OUR MEMBERS: ARCHIVES, 2001
Frank
Engel delivered
a paper entitled "Developing Meaningful Links for Language Learners"
at the Annual Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
(ORTESOL) Conference at Linn Benton Community College, Albany, Oregon Friday
October 26, 2001.
Judy
McGaw has an
article "'Please don't tell me how the story ends' liberating
technological history" in the most recent issue, fall 2001,
of Oregon Humanities.
James
Kopp's article
"'The effecting of all things possible': Technology in American Utopian
Visions of the Future, 1885-1914" also appears in the fall, 2001, issue of
Oregon Humanities
Sandy
Polishuk worked
as a Fellow of the Columbia University Oral History Institute for two weeks
this summer. Sandy's article, "Interviewing Radical Elders"
appears in the Journal of American History, in the September 2001 issue.
Susan Butruille will be performing as
a solo jazz singer with the Tigard Pops on Saturday, June 9, 2001
3:00 p.m. at the Tigard United Methodist Church. Susan recently performed her
one-woman show "Marie Pantalon" for the
Western Association of Women Historians.
Margaret DeLacy will be speaking on the ACCESS school on radio station KPAM, 860
AM, on June 5th. Margaret also appeared with Dianne Cassidy on "Inside
Oregon Education" hosted by Caleb Burns on April 25, 8 to 8:50 pm on Cable
Channel 11. The show focused on "TAG Programs."
Mary Cross, Carole Glauber and Susan Butruille recently gave talks
at the Western Association for Women Historians conference in Portland on May
19th. 2110. They all participated in a session entitled "Take a …: Western
Women's Creative Response to Their Surroundings" Susan Butruille's
paper was "Take a Little Flour and Water: A Multicultural Approach to
Western Women's Food Preparation and Preservation," Mary Bywater Cross,
gave a paper "Take a Needle and Thread: Stitched Visual Records of
Personal Experience," and Carole Glauber one entitled, "Take a
Camera: A Case Study of Myra Albert Wiggins." Susan Doyle was also a
member of the pane.
Michael Meo has received a grant of $14,000 from The M. J. Murdock Charitable
Trust. The grant, to the PortlandState University
Foundation, will enable Michael to work with Dr. Pui-Tak
(Peter) Leung to conduct research during the next two summers in the Dept. of
Physics at P.S.U. The research will be on "Quantum Mechanics and
Nanoparticle Sciences." This grant was awarded through a competitive
process in the Partners in Science Program at the Murdock Trust. It enables
high school science teachers to work at the cutting edge of science and to
revitalize their teaching and appreciate the use of inquiry-based methods in
the teaching of science. The selection is based on the qualifications of the
applicants, the quality of scientific research proposed, and the potentialimpact on schools.
Lin Bunza edited a book entitled The
Evolution of Literary Criticism, by Prafulla Kumar Pati, (Salem,
OR: Snehalata Press, 2001). Lin also gave a lecture presentation "Malevich
and the Art of the Russian Avant-Garde." at Portland State University: January, 2001 and was the writer for a catalog entitled
"Where Art Reveals Itself in Symbols, Words are Hard to Find: William St.
Pierre." for the Chrysalis Gallery, New York, in March, 2001. In April,
Lin will be giving three Pre-Concert Lectures at Reed College: "Notes on
Beethoven and Schubert" for the Portland Baroque Orchestra.
Rayna Kline has recently retired from the Oregon Aids Hotline after serving as
a volunteer for over fifteen years and has received an "Angel Award"
from the Cascade Aids Project. She is rewriting her book on French women in the
Resistance.
Sharon Wood Wortman performed "BridgeStories" on
Wednesday, 7 Feb.at Willamette University at the invitation of NISA member
Charles Wallace. She was sponsored by the Oregon Chautauqua program Rev. "BridgeStories" is also scheduled for Stayton,
Roseburg, Myrtle Point,Lincoln
City, and Newport through July this year. On January 27, Sharon and Charlie
White led a "Ghost Tour" of Portland, to celebrate the city's 150th
birthday by seeing what's not here any
more. The tour started at River View cemetery and ended up at
Montgomery Wards between Guilds Lake and the 1905 Forestry Building. Ghost Tour
II is now scheduled for Saturday, 28 April. Doing research for interpretive
panels to be part of the new Eastbank Esplanade,
Sharon found film showing the construction of the Portland Harbor Wall, a nice
piece about early 20th century construction methods and what the waterfront looked liked in 1928-29. It is now on VHS, and Sharon also
has a 20 minute script that contains wonderful images
of Olaf Laurgaard, the red-headed and energetic city
engineer from 1917-1933 who greatly influenced the Portland we see today.
After almost
two years, Sharon has finished three bridge reports (Fremont, Burnside,
Sellwood) for the Historic American Engineering Record, a bureau of the
National Parks Service, and am finishing the final bridge report (Ross Island)
this month. The editor promises that this writing will be in print at the
Library of Congress for at least 500 years.
Sharon is
also researching and writing a memoir, working title, “Broken Bridges, a Memoir
About Family, Bridges and Portland, Oregon."
Mike
Munk is writing a regular column, "Our Radical Past" for the
Portland Alliance. The column began in June of 2000.
Sharan
Newman is giving a paper at the Medieval Academy meeting in March on
"Eon de l'Etoile: Heretic, Madman or
Revolutionary?"
Norm
Cohen and Margaret DeLacy are both serving on a task force to consider a new public school
for highly gifted students in Portland.
Frank
Engel has been promoted to Associate Professor at Mt. Angel Seminary.
He has also had a poem published in an anthology The Silence of Infinity. He will be
playing with Gypsy Caravan in a show "A World of Music and Dance" at
the Hollywood Theater on March 3rd.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS BY OUR
MEMBERS: ARCHIVES, 2000
Sharan
Newman's newest book, To
Wear the White Cloak was published in October.
Frank
Engel's flamenco troupe, ALAS FLAMENCAS, played at the River Theater in
Astoria in November..
Tom Franzel's article "The strange and
checkered career of Carrington's Law: a century and a half of solar
modeling" was published in the Sept. 1999 issue of Physics Essays.
Linda Hathaway
Bunza
presented a lecture in April entitled, "J.S. Bach: His Life and
Music" as part of the Columbia Research Institute for the Arts and
Humanities 250th anniversary commemoration of Bach's death. Live music, a
double slide show, and the lecture presentation comprised the program in
Portland. Lin also wrote "The Nexus of
Lines," for Artist Collaboration at Blackfish Gallery in November, 2000, and gave a Lecture Presentation at Portland
State University: "Kandinsky and the Art of the Russian Avant-Garde."
the same month.
Norm Cohen appeared in a documentary about
Woodie Guthrie and the Columbia River that appeared on Oregon Public
Broadcasting in August.
Judy McGaw will be presenting her paper
"Why not Outhouses? Technological Change through Women's Eyes," at
the conference Writing the Past, Claiming the Future: Women and Gender in
Science, Medicine and Technology" in St. Louis in October.
Carole Glauber gave a lecture and
slide presentation as part of the The Blue Sky
Gallery Regional Photographers Lecture Series on August 10. For over two
decades, Carole has provided intimate glimpses into the personalities of people
through street photographs and black and white portraits, as well as lush color
images depicting the lives of her children and their travels. Glauber discussed
her various projects over the years and her evolution as a photographer.
Carole recently reviewed "Shadows, Fire,
Snow-The Life of Tina Modotti" by Patricia
Albers. for the Women in Photography website. Carole also spoke at the Pacific
Northwest History Conference in Spokane, WA April 20-23.
Sandy Polishuk has published a section from her
oral history of Julia Ruuttila in Hedgebrook's
on-line journal. It is called "The Women Are Behind You: Stick It
Out!" and tells the story of the role of the woodworkers ladies' auxiliary
during the lockout of 1937. You can find it at www.hedgebrook.org. In October, Sandy gave
a paper on Ruuttila at the first Labor Journalism
conference in NYC.
Michael Munk's new article "Portland's
'Silk Stocking Mob': the Citizens Emergency League in the 1934 Maritime
Strike," appears in the (Summer, 2000) issue of the Northwest HistoricalQuarterly.
Another article by Mike,
"The 'Portland Period' of Artist Carl Walters," appears in theSummer, 2000, issue of the Oregon
Historical Quarterly and features many examples of his lithos of World War I Portland shipyards. Walters, a
painter and ceramic sculptor who studied under Henri, worked in Portland from
1912-1919. Praised for his depictions of the Portland area by John Reed and
C.E.S. Wood, he was, with Louise Bryant, a local subscription agent for The
Masses. In 1915, he introduced Reed to Bryant. He left Portland for New York in
1919 and turned to ceramics, for which he is represented at major museums, and
lived in Woodstock until his death in 1955.
Mike's article "The Portland Years
of John Reed & Louise Bryant: An interpretive biography" is
available on the John Reed Internet Archive.
Mike's article "Socialism in Czechoslovakia: What Went Wrong?"
appeared in Science
& Society (Summer, 2000)
Mary Bywater
Cross
curated an exhibition of quilts for the WSU Holland LibraryArchives
which will hang from July 15th-October 15th. The title:"Quilts:
Stitched Records of Human Experience." The exhibit wasl
be part of the women's history conference: Gender, Race, Class
and Region, at WSU July27-30,2000. She also moderatied
a panel of quilt historians from across the West who will be introducing their
work using quilts as documents of material culture history.
A contemporary dance
company, the Canyon Movement Company in Flagstaff, Arizona, used Mary's Quilts and Women of the Mormon
Migrations book as the inspiration for a series of dances they
performed in March. Mary gave two pre-performance talks, funded by the Arizona
Humanities Council. The company hopes to do the program again and again and is
being visited by representatives of the National Endowment for the Arts this
June.
Susan Butruille
recently presented a workshop for the Early Spring conference of the
International Women's Wrtiing Guild in Santa Cruz,
Californian on "Writing the Western Landscape: Women's Voices from the
Mother Lode." In March, she presented her costumed historical performance,
"Marie Pantalon: The Ladie Wore Pants!" for
the U.S. Forest Service in Portland, the National Woman's Party headquarters in
Washington, and George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia. This presentation
comes from her latest book Women's
Voices from the Mother Lode: Tales from the California Gold Rush.
She will perform Marie Pantalon for the Linn County
Historical Society in Albany on May 14 at 2pm at the Lakeside Center Mennonite
Village.
Sharon Wood
Wortman is featured in in an article in the March,
2000 Sunset
magazine entitled "Bridging Portland."
Peter Abrahams is serving as president of the
Rose City Astronomers
David Ritchie spoke at Simon Fraser University
at a conference titled, "Culture, Community, Nation; Scotland at Home and
Abroad." His conference paper, "Is That A
Real Scottish Sword?" is at http://www.sfu.ca/~leith/panel.htm#Ritchie
. He also spoke at the University of British Columbia, to a gathering sponsored
by the literature and history departments. The talk was titled, "Rivers
Runs Through It; Reconsidering Madness and Sanity in World War One."
ACCOMPLISHMENTS BY OUR
MEMBERS: ARCHIVES, 1999
Linda Hathaway
Bunza
published a book review of Sandra Stone's "Cocktails with Brueghel at the
Museum Cafe" in the Summer 1999 issue of Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature.
From October through May, 1999, Lin presented lectures
in Portland on "The History of Painting" from ancient times to the
present for the Columbia Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
Paul Pitzer was interviewed for a
documentary on the Grand Coulee Dam on the Discovery Channel
Michael Munk was a participant in a panel on
"FORGOTTEN ARTIST: THE ROLE OF ‘FASHION’ IN
THE PORTLAND ART SCENE" sponsored by The Oregon Cultural Heritage
Commission in its series "Oregon Originals 99." Mike is an honorary
director of the OCHC.
Sharon Wood
Wortman is featured in in an article in the March,
2000 Sunset
magazine entitled "Bridging Portland." She also curated an exhibit in
the New Oregon History Center at the Oregon Historical Society. Entitled
"Bridging the City" it is part of the continuing PORTLAND! exhibit . It includes historic photographs and information
about the initial construction and current renovation of the Hawthorne Bridge.
The exhibit, which will be up for one year, also includes three separate
booklets featuring words and artistic works from Oregonians which were compiled
and edited by Sharon. In conjunction with the new exhibit, Sharon presented a
multimedia event entitled "BridgeStories"
featuring videos, props, slide images and stories at the Oregon History
Center's Madison Room on Thursday, April 22, from 6:30 to 7:30.
Margaret
DeLacy's
article, "Nosology, Mortality and Disease Theory in the Eighteenth
Century" appeared in the April, 1999 issue of the
Journal of the History
of Medicine.
David Ritchie's article "If I Agree With Latour That In Some Sense We Are Modern *And* We Are
Not, How Do I Then Do History? An Article In Four
Frames, " appeared in the Spring issue of The Journal of Unconventional History.
volume 10, Number 3, Spring 1999. The Journal can be reached at http://www.unconvhistory.com David has
also signed a contract with Viking/Penguin to write a book about the history of
swords.
Sandy Polishuk's article, "Secrets, Lies,
and Misremembering: The Perils of Oral History Interviewing" appeared in
the latest issue of Frontiers:
A Journal of Women Studies (V. 19, no. 3). She will be presenting a
paper, "The Women Are Behind You. Stick It Out! TheOregon
Woodworkers Ladies' Auxiliary in the 1937 Portland Lockout: An Oral History of
Julia Ruuttila," at the Lewis & Clark Gender
Conference in March.
Carole Glauber's book Witch of Kodakery: The
Photography of Myra Albert Wiggins 1869-1956 was reviewed in the
Fall issue of the Oregon
Historical Quarterly and in the Autumn, 1998 issue of History of Photography.
Carole discussed her book at a meeting of the History Guild in Seattle on
Tuesday, May 11, 1999.. The book was published by the
Washington State University Press in 1997 and Carole discussed her work on
Wiggins at a NISA meeting. For more information see http://publications.urel.wsu.edu/Press/Press.html
.
Norm Cohen gave an invited talk at the
annual American Folklore Society meeting last October on songs about the
Titanic; he is also working on a CD collection of early recordings about the
disaster. Last year he edited/annotated two CDs of railroad songs
Mary Bywater
Cross has
been selected to have one of the Sterling Room for Writers residencies at the
Multnomah County Central Library. Her photo essay on quilts of migration will
be included in Karen Blair's new edition of Women
in Pacific Northwest History from the University of Washington
Press.
Peter Abrahams' article "Rangefinders and
Stereo Telescopes " was published in Amateur
Telescope Making, Number 11, 1998, pp. 26-27. Another of Peter's
articles, "John Mudge on mirror making,
1777" is in press for the same journal. Several of Peter's articles are
now available on the WorldWide Web including "a
brief history of the binocular," http://www.halcyon.com/rupe/atmj/issues/issue9/binocular.html
in plain text: http://www.europa.com/~telscope/binohist.txt
"The use & testing of binoculars for astronomy" http://www.rca-omsi.org/rca/beginner/binotest1.htm
, or in plain text: http://www.europa.com/~telscope/binotest.txt
and "A selection of poems on astronomy (from the literature)" http://www.europa.com/~telscope/astrpoem.txt
and http://www.europa.com/~telscope/s_butler.txt
Rayna Kline served as chairperson of a
Library Study Committee for the Clark County League of Women Voters. She
completed a study of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library System, which covers
eleven libraries in four counties (Clark, Skamania, Cowlitz, Klickitat).
Sharan Newman has just finished the sixth book
in her medieval mystery series. It's called The
Difficult Saint and it takes place during the year 1147, the time
of the Second Crusade.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
BY OUR MEMBERS: ARCHIVES, 1997-8
Charlie
Wallace's book, Susannah
Wesley: the Complete Writings,
has been published by Oxford University Press. (New York and Oxford, 1997)
Michael Munk's article "Oregon Tests
Academic Freedom in (Cold) Wartime: The Reed College Trustees versus Stanley
Moore," in the Oregon
Historical Quarterly, Fall, 1997, has been awarded the Palmer Prize
by the Oregon Historical Society.
Peter Abrahams gave a talk on The Early History
of Binocular Telescopes, 1600-1900 at 7:30 PM on Nov. 5, at Portland State
University, sponsored by Sigma Xi. Peter's article "The Early History of
Binoculars." appeared in Amateur
Telescope Making, Number 9, 1997, pp. 35-36.
Susan G. Butruille
won a first place award in the 1997 Oregon Press Women
in Communications Contest for her column "Women's Voices Past and
Future." Butruille also won awards for a Women's Journal
article, "The Flame Began with Hera" and for "The Grand &
Spirited History of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra," published by the
Oregon Council for the Humanities. ( information from
the NW Writers newsletter)
Fred DeWolfe has recently published
"Portlander John Reed and his Family's Chinese Servant, Lee Sing," in
the Oregon Historical
Quarterly, Fall, 1997.
Carole Glauber's photographs were on exhibit at
the Marylhurst Art Gym, as part of the exhibit
"Observation and Invention: Oregon Women Photographers 100 Years After the
Photo-Secession." The exhibit is open noon to 4 PM, Tuesday-Sunday on the
third floor of the Administration Building on the Marylhurst
College Campus.
Michael Munk published "Oregon Tests
Academic Freedom in (Cold) Wartime: The Reed College Trustees versus Stanley
Moore," in the Oregon
Historical Quarterly, Fall, 1997. An extremely successful symposium
on the dismissal of Stanley Moore was also held at Reed College on April 10. An
overflow crowd in the Vollum Center heard a panel including Michael discuss the
Moore case and its aftermath. Moore was unable to attend, but was able to
comment on the proceedings
Linda Hathaway
Bunza presented
a lecture in April on Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King in Portland,
Boston, and New York entitled: "Towards Nonviolence in the New Millenium:
Lessons from Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr." The lecture
commemorated the 50th anniversary of Gandhi's death and the 30th anniversary of
King's death. Gandhi's grandson's Arun and Rajmohan were presented with copies
of the lecture.
In October, Lin served
on a Gandhi Symposium panel in Salem, Oregon. Salem Mayor Mike Swaime gave the inaugural presentation.