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What Is a Reedie, Anyway?
Twelve Reedies from the Class of ’20 talk about the ideas that ignite them
28 Class Notes
36 In Memoriam
Eliot Circular How The Galaxy Got Its Swirl Raiders of the Black Sea Steppe Reed Welcomes New VP for Student Life What We Learned From This Issue Waves and Birdsong Close Encounters of the Literary Kind
10 Advocates of the Griffin
Honoring classmates, professors, and friends who have died
Phiz Mezey ’48, photojournalist was blacklisted in McCarthy era Richard Hanna ’76, Republican congressman who reached across the aisle Abigail Mann Thernstrom ’58, conservative scholar who criticized affirmative action And too many more
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News from our classmates
48 Object of Study
What Reed students are looking at in class
Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?
All Things Alumni
26 Reediana
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Books, Films, and Music by Reedies
Titan by François Vigneault ’13 Best Wishes by Maria Maita-Keppeler ’14 And many more
cover photos by clayton cotterell, alanna hale, tony luong, and victoria ushkanova
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Katie Pelletier ’03 503/777-7727 pelletic@reed.edu President Audrey Bilger as a junior at Oklahoma State University in 1980.
Living In the Future The rhythms of college life have a regular pulse, beginning again and again each fall, a recurring fresh start with new faces and postsummer reunions. Across more than four decades, ever since I left home to become a college student, I have relished this time and the shared sense of expectation, curiosity, and hope that arrives on campus along with the incoming class. As a young philosophy major in one of my earliest semesters, I read David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandingand was captivated by his view that we live our lives in patterns based upon recurring features of experience. Our ideas about human existence, Hume argues, take for granted that the future will resemble the past, something that amounts to “going in a circle.” I remember feeling at that time a strong sense of freedom in considering how one might break away from this circularity. I took Hume’s ideas to mean that I might have the power to create each day anew. It took me another 15 years to arrive at an even deeper understanding of myself and to come out as gay, but in retrospect (a very layered retrospect at this stage of my life), I recognize that I was trying to escape conventions that were limiting my ability to be myself. My studies helped me figure out who I wanted to be, and as a faculty member and now Reed’s president, this exploration and discovery is what I most want for our students. 2
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Back in the spring, when stay-at-home orders made each day feel similar in an eerie, unmoored way, I recalled my early reading of Hume and thought about how, during this pandemic, we have all been bumped out of the circle of the ordinary. The future is radically uncertain. Reimagining the fall semester was a collective effort here at Reed that took place without the safety net of being able to believe that the coming year would resemble anything that came before. We anchored ourselves in the guiding principles of safeguarding our academic program, caring for our community, and ensuring equity. As I write these words in the middle of summer, I know that we cannot anticipate all that might transpire in the coming season and beyond. That said, I am confident in the importance of doing what we do at Reed and in the value of uniting to shape a future that will benefit from the engaged participation of our students and alumni. You are reading this in a future I cannot now see, and as one who has become skilled in the alternate reality of virtual space and time, I send out hopes for your health and well-being. I was thanking one of our alumni recently for their generosity to the college. They told me that their Reed experience transformed them. “I love Reed,” they said, “and Reed loves me back.” Please know that Reed returns your love. Audrey Bilger President of Reed
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Physics Majors Show How the Galaxy Developed its Enigmatic Barred Spiral. tom humphrey
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing & Copyright: Domingo Pestana & Raul Villaverde
The luminous whirlpool of the Milky Way, with its spiral arms pinwheeling from a central bar-shaped vortex, has inspired generations of scientists and stargazers alike. But the explanation for this enigmatic structure has proven surprisingly difficult to nail down. Astrophysicists long theorized that the force of gravity, acting on billions of stars over billions of years, would yield the spirals that characterize so many galaxies. Beginning in the 1970s, crude computer simulations produced spiral structures that lent support to the theory. Then came the realization that stars represent just a tiny fraction of the mass of the universe—most of it, in fact, consists of gas and dark matter. Does the theory still hold up if you factor in that other stuff? A team of Reed physicists, including Beckett Cummings ’20, Will Lum ’21, and Prof. Johnny Powell, decided to take up the challenge last summer, thanks to support from the Delord-Mockett Fund. Starting with the assumption that the galaxy began life as a gargantuan cloud of gas spanning 500,000 light years, the team used a massively parallel N-body gravitational software package known as ChaNGa to carve up this cloudy colossus into 1 million sectors, each containing enough gas to fuel scores of suns, and observe what happens as they pull and push each other over the course of half a billion years. Their first simulations yielded no structure whatsoever, producing big, amorphous blobs. Next they tried altering the initial configuration of matter to follow the Hernquist distribution, a model first proposed by astrophysicist Lars Hernquist in 1990. This configuration produced a flattened spheroid (physics-talk for a slightly less amorphous blob)—an improvement, but still a long way from the intricate whorl of the Milky Way. The team then borrowed an idea from Noah Muldavin ’13, who wrote a thesis on galactic formation on older software simulating just 20,000 stars.
GIVE IT A WHORL. Beckett Cummings ’20, Prof. Johnny Powell, and Will Lum ’21 succeeded in creating a barred spiral structure in their ChaNGa simulation. (Photo taken in February.)
While Noah’s simulation failed to yield a barred structure, it did succeed in producing spiral arms. In his thesis, Noah used a polynomial function for the initial configuration of stars:
The team faced some technical hurdles implementing the Muldavin Function in the ChaNGa system, but ironed out the bugs and eventually set up a simulation of 2 million sectors over the course of 6 billion years. ChaNGa crunched the numbers overnight and spat out its results in numerical format; the students then had to use different software to compile it into an image. “We weren’t sure if it would work,” says Beckett. “When it popped up on the screen I almost fell off my chair.” What they saw was the elusive structure they had been hunting for—spiral arms radiating from a central bar. “It was a really magical experience,” says Beckett. “That was the first moment when I truly felt that this was what I wanted to do with my life.” The students grabbed the laptop and dashed up to Prof. Powell’s office to show him the blurry image. “I’ve been waiting to see that image for five years!” he exclaimed.
From a theoretical standpoint, this result is not surprising, according to Prof. Powell. A galaxy-sized cloud of gas should be able to form a barred spiral if the initial conditions are correct. But the Reed experiment is a vivid affirmation that the model is fundamentally sound. “With these results, we can continue the process of trying to form a barred galaxy of gas and stars, and start to ask more fundamental questions about the physics of bars,” he says. Astrophysicists don’t understand the full significance of barred spirals. One theory suggests that the bar concentrates mass in the center of the galaxy, spawning new stars in the process. Barred spirals appear to be getting more common as the universe gets older. Scientists reckon that twothirds of all spiral galaxies contain a bar. The Reed project suggests that barred spirals are a transitional phenomenon. After several billion years, the structure decomposes and the galaxy assumes a new shape. The Delord-Mockett Fund was created by physicist Paul Mockett ’59 in honor of legendary Reed physics professor Jean Delord [1950-88]. Prof. Powell presented the Reed team’s results at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January. —CHRIS LYDGATE ’90
SPITTING FIRE. The barred spiral shoots out stars as the galaxy rotates, creating luminous spiral arms.
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What We Learned From This Issue of Reed Magazine
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Anthropologist and filmmaker Stephen Nugent ’72 collaborated with British musician Ian Dury and the Blockheads on the song “Billiricay Dickie.” page 41 Maita, the indie-rock band fronted by Maria Keppeler ’14, was rated Portland’s “best new band” by Willamette Week. page 27 The collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ultimately led to the rise of nation-states in the Black Sea Steppe. page 7 French composer Olivier Messiaen incorporated birdsong into his compositions. page 8 Plant geneticist Pamela Ronald ’82 will hold a talk on the Future of Food for Reed alumni. page 10 Humans and zebrafish share 70% of the same genes. page 20 At any given moment, there are always two antipodal points on the earth’s surface that share the same temperature. page 18 When author Walter Satterthwait ’70 learned that his publisher would not underwrite a book tour for his novel Maquerade, he launched his own tour from a Winnebago emblazoned with a gigantic copy of the book’s cover, tricked out with a black-and-gold interior, fake leopardskin accents, and fuzzy dice that lit up when plugged into the cigarette lighter. “I’m not a big believer in writers promoting themselves,” he said. “But I decided blatant selfpromotion is okay if it’s low-key, tasteful, and elegant.” page 40
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Our newest comrade: Karnell McConnell-Black.
Reed Welcomes New VP for Student Life Reed has a brand new vice-president for student life—Karnell McConnell-Black, who joined the college in July. McConnell-Black brings more than 12 years of experience in liberal arts higher education and comes to Reed from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he was the vice president of student affairs and dean of students. At Westminster, he demonstrated skills in creating and enhancing programs and services that support student growth, development, and inclusion. He has served in a variety of leadership roles, including coordinator of orientation and first-year programs at Loyola University Chicago; and vice president of student affairs and dean of students, director of student involvement, leadership, and orientation, and assistant dean of students at Westminster College. At Westminster, his contributions included key leadership roles in reestablishing the college’s Staff Council, developing the Bias Education Response Team, and integrating student
health and wellness across campus. He comes to this position with a keen appreciation for Reed’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, emphasis on student success, and collaborative culture. A first-generation college student hailing from Texas, McConnell-Black holds a doctoral degree in educational leadership and policy from the University of Utah, a master’s degree in higher education administration from Loyola University, and an undergraduate degree in communication, also from Loyola. He has served as the president-elect for the Association of Orientation, Transition, and Retention and as a board member for the Utah Pride Center. He succeeds longtime VPSL Mike Brody, who retired after 17 years of extraordinary service to the community. President Audrey Bilger commended the search committee for its comprehensive process as she welcomed McConnell-Black to Reed. —RANDALL S. BARTON
Recovery of Prisoners by Józef Brandt depicts the Polish-Lithuanian army attacking a Crimean Tatar war camp in 1624.
Raiders of the Black Sea Steppe An endless sea of grass. Roving bands of warring horse lords. And three divided kingdoms intent on domination. What could be a teaser for a Game of Thrones reboot actually shaped the state system that still governs European power relations today, history major Achinoam Bentov ’20 argues in his award-winning senior thesis. Rivalry between three Eastern European powers rendered the ungovernable space between them—the Black Sea Steppe—a site of perpetual raiding by proxy forces. This immense plain was home to Crimean Tatars, Cossacks, and Kalmyks who wielded agency of their own through trade, alliances, and violence that contested the ability of the three powers to impose their will on the stateless steppe. The result was a last stand—hundreds of years long and several thousand warriors strong—against incorporation into what has since become the most prevalent unit of political organization on earth. “One of the most impressive features of Achinoam’s thesis is the significance and clarity of the sustained story it tells,” wrote Prof. David Sacks in a letter commending it for the Class of ’21 award, which was endowed by the Class of 1921 and which honors “creative work of notable character, involving an unusual degree of initiative and spontaneity.” Starting in 1475, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsardom of Muscovy, and the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth each competed
for control of the steppe, but were never able to establish authority because the raiders kept playing them off against their rivals. It took the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1648 to break the raiders’ critical ability to triangulate their political interests, and with it, their alternative to the state system that survives today. This David vs Goliath narrative is not just about another historical model. “From another perspective, this thesis is a history of violence—of the forms it took, and the way those forms were modulated, regulated, and transformed by political, economic, and cultural factors,” says Prof. Michael Breen, who was Achinoam’s thesis adviser. Achinoam had been mulling the thesis in one form or another since high school. He immersed himself in Eastern European history during winters and summers at Reed and was inspired by a class with Prof. Sacks. “David Sacks is a great professor and has been a very big mentor to me,” he says. “The treasure of Reed is in its professors.” He benefited from the broad conceptual frameworks he developed at Reed, from professors and students alike. Feedback from fellow history majors played a big role in his work—a discussion with his peers was often just as valuable as any library resource. Next up for Reed’s resident scholar of the steppe? He’s heading to Johns Hopkins to pursue a PhD in history.
Bentov: “The treasure of Reed is in its professors.”
This old map depicts the Black Sea Steppe, which stretches from its eponymous body of water to reach the Caucasus Mountains mountains to the south, the Caspian Sea to the east, and the vast plains of Russia and Ukraine to the north.
—BRANDON ZERO ’11
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Waves and Birdsong
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Can a reader visualize the actions of a fictional character in the same way that a musician interprets notes on her instrument? Comp-lit major Kate Ehrenberg ’20 won the Class of ’21 award for her thesis on the concept of “reading for gesture,” exploring Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel, The Waves, and enigmatic composer Olivier Messiaen’s work for solo piano, Catalogue d’oiseaux. An accomplished musician herself (trained in organ, piano, composition, and conducting), Kate came to her thesis topic after spending time in France and studying influential French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who was fascinated by the music of Messiaen, who evokes birdsong in his 1956-1958 composition and incorporates the movements of birds into written instructions for the performer throughout the score. Her interest piqued, Kate began to draw a parallel between Messiaen’s work and the descriptive interludes of the natural
world that occur in Woolf’s 1931 novel. Kate’s research focuses on the role of the body in the experience of the reader or performer. As her professor Nathalia King notes, “Kate’s thesis is a tour de force that opens new grounds in comparing literary texts and musical scores. Her work identifies and defines a concept of ‘gesture’ to compare how a reader ‘inhabits’ the literary text and how the performer ‘inhabits’ the musical score. Kate argues that a reader tracks both literal and figurative descriptions of motion in the text by means of tacit embodiment— and that this ‘kinesic energy’ sustains the reader’s capacity for empathic connection with literary characters. Similarly, the performer’s particular use of embodied actions to transform a score into musical performance are fundamental to the subtle uniqueness of each interpretation.” Kate describes her thesis as “a product of what I learned at Reed.” She credits Prof. King’s course on description and narration
Close Encounters of the Literary Kind
for opening her eyes to the many ways to read a book, decentering what’s normally centralized to get at more subtly embedded aspects of the text. Her experiences in Prof. Ann Delahanty’s French classes taught her to write and research well, in addition to how to pose questions and think historically. And Kate’s piano lessons with instructor Denise VanLeuven expanded her ideas about the role of the body in playing and interpreting music. The Class of ’21 award was created by members of the class of 1921 and honors a “creative work of notable character, involving an unusual degree of initiative and spontaneity.” When asked how she felt when she found out she’d won the award, Kate didn’t hesitate: “Grateful.” She credits her success in large part to the support of her thesis advisor, French professor Luc Monnin, for his patient guidance and faith in her project. —BRITTNEY CORRIGAN-MCELROY ’94
In many parts of the world, science fiction is not viewed as serious literature. But in early 20th-century China, it was afforded elite status as Chinese intellectuals began severing ties with old traditions and turned to newly-available foreign sci-fi translations as representative of modernity and as vehicles to boldly imagine the possible future of China as a nation. Professor Jing Jiang [Chinese 2006–] has won a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to study this fascinating genre. Prof. Jiang focuses her academic research on how contemporary Chinese writing is in dialogue with literature from other cultures. What do science fiction, magic realism, and utopian fiction have to do with modern Chinese literature? Her project, “The World Embedded in Modern Chinese Literary Imagination,” will explore the influence of a global array of writers on the historically inward-looking canon of Chinese literature. She developed this topic for her fellowship while at work on her first book, Found in Translation, an investigation of 20th-century Chinese science fiction (forthcoming in November 2020 from Columbia University Press). Intrigued by the role of translation in ushering China’s long history of self-referential literature into
a modern identity that is oriented toward a diverse body of world literature, Jiang created a course at Reed on Chineseness, Translated Modernity, and World Literature in the fall of 2018. Students read works by Gabriel García Márquez, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Beckett, and others with an eye toward their influence on celebrated works in the modern Chinese canon, including lauded writers such as Lu Xun. Within the course, students explored the cross-fertilization of ideas among the texts and how contemporary Chinese literature is often a product of translingual practice. Developing the course at Reed emboldened Jiang to further pursue this confluence of literary imaginations. Says Jiang, “Modern Chinese writers are notorious for their ‘obsession with China,’ but they also carry on intense, ongoing dialogues with world literature while working through that obsession. These dialogues that form the subtexts of some of the bestknown works are the most fascinating to me.” As the inaugural recipient of the ACLS Pauline Yu Fellowship in Chinese or Comparative Literature, Jiang hopes to research and complete the initial chapters of a new book based on these ideas. —BRITTNEY CORRIGANMCELROY ’94
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All Things Alumni • Connecting Reed Alumni Around the Globe • Visit alumni.reed.edu
EDITED BY KATIE RAMSEY ’04 AND CARRIE SAMUELS
Letter from the President of the Alumni Board nina johnson ’99
Greetings, Reedies! As the new Reed alumni board president, I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself—Melissa Osborne, 2013 grad, sociology. My path to Reed was a long and winding one, and I entered as a nontraditional, first-generation college student. I gained a lot from my time at Reed. Not the least of which has been the most excellent of friends, a knowledge of the humanities that is crucial for pub trivia, and the most valuable shiny plastic hat in all the land. My wife and I now live with our two children in Bellingham, Washington, where I am an assistant professor of sociology at Western Washington University. I spend a lot of time writing, thinking, and teaching about systemic inequality, so I try to bring as much humor into the rest of my life as I can. This means that the folks in Alumni Programs often have their work cut out for them in terms of keeping me on track during meetings. Especially Zoom meetings in a pandemic. We are lucky to have a thriving and enthusiastic alumni volunteer community. If
for creativity. I’m looking forward to continuing to promote and support the priorities the alumni board is focused on, including: • A commitment to increasing engagement with diverse alumni from historically marginalized backgrounds • C ontinuing to grow the membership of the alumni board • Partnering with the college to develop more virtual engagement opportunities that reflect the varied interests of our alumni community
you haven’t had a chance to serve on one of the alumni board committees, please know that we are always looking for more alumni volunteers! Send an email to alumni@reed. edu indicating your interest and which committee you’d like to serve on, and we can get you plugged in. It is certainly a strange time to be picking up the mantle of president, but the challenges and pressures of our current moment will undoubtedly foster new opportunities
As we continue to collectively navigate the pandemic in the coming months, please know my virtual door is always open. Don’t hesitate to reach out to me with any questions, and I look forward to seeing what we can accomplish over the next year!
the Future of Food” will be hosted on Zoom September 30 and requires preregistration. Additional speakers include Sam Fromartz ’80, author, journalist, and editorin-chief of Food & Environment Reporting Network, who will address the effects of COVID-19 on the food system, and Acacia Parks ’03, chief scientist at Happify Health, who will discuss how digital therapeutics attempt to address the disparities found in today’s health care system. Planning for more Reed Remote Talks is ongoing. You can find the full list of virtual events on the Reed Remote website. As more than 150 Reedies already know, the Reed Remote Virtual Book Club is
a great way to share the critical discourse you enjoyed from Reed conferences of yore. With the help of a professional book club facilitator, we are reviewing books from Hum 411, better known as the Senior Symposium, which promotes an exchange of experience “in an effort to understand critical problems of our age.” The book club convenes on a user-friendly and private online forum where you can discuss the books on your own timeline. To join (it’s free!), visit the Reed Remote website.
Sincerely, Melissa Osborne ’13 President, Reed Alumni Board mosborne@alumni.reed.edu
Virtual Engagement Alumni Programs is excited to share ways you can stay connected to fellow Reedies during the pandemic and beyond. Share critical conversations through our virtual events, alumni talks, affinity groups, and chapters. A full list of our offerings can be found on the Reed Remote website: alumni.reed.edu/reed-remote. Reed Remote Talks is a series of free virtual seminars hosted by Alumni Programs featuring Reed alumni presenting an array of thought-provoking topics within their area of expertise. Our first alumni speaker will be Pamela Ronald ’82, the researcher responsible for the development of climate-resilient rice. Her talk “Improving Food Security for the World’s Poorest Farmers: Plant Genetics and
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For more ways to get involved with fellow Reedies across the globe, or to suggest an idea for future virtual programming, please visit the Reed Remote website at alumni.reed.edu/reed-remote.
New Faces on the Alumni Board The alumni board welcomes the following new at-large members, whose terms started July 1, 2020. See the whole board at alumni.reed.edu.
Sirius Bonner ’05
Shirley Gibson ’94
Liz Gilkey ’01
Peter Miller ’06
Portland, OR Art History ’05, MALS ’10
San Francisco, CA Political Science
Portland, OR English
New York, NY Political Science
Most recent Netflix binge? Technically HBO and a re-watch, but Watchmen. Absolutely worth a second viewing. Amazing how it predicted our current moment. A moment of joy you’ve had during the lockdowns/ physical distancing? The collective energy and widespread engagement exhibited during the early days of the uprisings in response to the recent and ongoing extrajudicial murder of black people by police and other agents of white supremacy in the United States was exhilarating. Draining, scary, risky... but exhilarating. Which character on the U.S. version of The Office would you be, and why? Some odd mixture of Craig, Oscar, and Jo Bennett... Obviously.
First trip you plan to take post-COVID? San Sebastián Favorite spot on Reed’s campus when you were a student? Cookie jar in Ellen’s office in the biology building. What made you decide to volunteer for the alumni board? I have loved hosting Reed student interns at my office, and that made me want to support and celebrate multiple generations of Reedies because they are amazing.
Most recent Netflix binge? Innocence Files, so worth it! Great reminder that our criminal “justice” system is a relic of slavery days. A moment of joy you’ve had during the lockdowns/ physical distancing? Meeting three new family members: backyard chickens Pop, Corn, and Gladys! Favorite object in the room you answered these questions in? I am in my office, and my favorite thing in this room is an etching of the Mill Race in Eugene printed by my grandfather in 1934.
Worst movie you’ve seen recently? What made it terrible/why should people stay far, far away? The Green Hornet remake. I loved the comic book and old TV show as a kid. Recasting the movie as a crude comedy was a swing and a miss that I had hoped would rekindle my memories of the character. Favorite spot on Reed’s campus when you were a student? Eliot Circle when the cherry blossoms bloom. What made you decide to volunteer for the alumni board? In one way or another, I can see the influence of Reed in every success I’ve enjoyed since graduating. I want to do whatever I can so that other new alumni can have the same feeling.
Be a Social Media Ambassador Looking for new ways to flex your social media skills? Volunteer to be an Alumni Fundraising for Reed (AFR) Social Media Ambassador! This elite team of social media aficionados will post on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram while AFR volunteers remind Reedies to make a gift to the Annual Fund.
Laramie Van Duzer Silber ’13 New York, NY Anthropology First trip you plan to take post-COVID? Oregon? Colorado? France? The deli down the street? I’m just excited to have options, and what having those options again will mean (i.e., the pandemic is over and we can get back to working on universal health-care). A moment of joy you’ve had during the lockdowns/ physical distancing? The avian life! Bald eagles, goldfinches, red-tailed hawks, and grey herons have all been a frequent sight overhead during the lockdown. Favorite object in the room you answered these questions in? A giant philodendron plant that came inside to overwinter one year and has now grown too large to make it out the doorway.
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What Is a Reedie, Anyway? You can say one thing for the class of 2020—they’re resilient. In the face of a global pandemic, economic meltdown, and immense social dislocation, they stayed true to their compass and finished their theses. We decided to interview 12 of them to learn more about the ideas that inspired them.
Hala Baba I N T E R N AT I O N A L A N D C O M PA R AT I V E P O L I C Y S T U D I E S –A N T H R O P O LO GY Hometown: Kissimmee, Florida Thesis adviser:
Prof. Paul Silverstein Thesis: Syrians Moving to Australia: Challenges of Belonging and Becoming What it’s about: I became
interested in Australian refugee resettlement because—like the United States—that country is conservative, and because it accepted a lot of Syrians from the civil war. My thesis is about Syrian refugees and their interactions with extant Australian and LebaneseSyrian community members and governmental policies and agencies. How do they develop community and integration into Australian society? What it’s really about:
The integration of Syrian refugees into Australian society and factors that hinder or help their progress. In high school: I was ambitious,
an overachiever, and hellbent for being challenged academically. The International Baccalaureate program and Advanced Placement were not enough of a challenge.
465: Suffering, Narrative, and Subjectivity gave me a better perspective on ethnographic work and helped inform my research when it came to my interlocutors and their experiences.
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Dancing by Juliet Marillier. Reading fantasy provided an escape from theory and from the concrete world, and allowed me to tune into my creative side.
Concept that blew my mind:
Sectarianism, and how it is weaponised to pull people apart all around the world. Cool stuff: Model United Nations, Arabic House, the Pantry, Peer Mentor Program, and Tír na nÓg. I learned to tango, went rafting, and was a tutor. Awards, fellowships, grants:
Anthropology Research Grant, Undergraduate Research Grant. Challenges I faced: Knowing who I am, and not letting others’ negativity and stress influence my achievements and goals. How Reed changed me:
Reed helped me realize the difference between a wolf and sheep. Being a wolf is the goal: understanding one’s self and following through—even when all others stand against you—is better than giving up yourself to fit in. Financial aid: It has meant the world, especially since I would not have been able to get this education without it. What’s next: I hope to find
a career in something I am passionate about, such as grassroots politics or the foreign service.
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Influential class: Anthropology
Influential book: Wildwood
Beckett Cummings
PHYSICS
Hometown: Glenview, Illinois Thesis adviser:
Prof. Johnny Powell Thesis: N-Body Simulation of
Cosmological Structure
What it’s about: I ran cosmological simulations with initial conditions corresponding to observed and theorized early-universe distributions. These simulations resulted in the formation of interconnected fibril structures which qualitatively resemble observed distributions, and the formation of galaxies at the intersection of these fibrils. (For more details, see page 5.) What it’s really about: By using a simple approximation of gravity, we can get a surprisingly accurate picture of how the universe looks. In high school: I was a bit of a
know-it-all. Band was a pretty central feature of my life. (I played trumpet.)
Influential classes: Two physics
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classes at Reed really stand out. First, Classical Mechanics I, with Prof. Johnny Powell. Before this class, I had a conception of classical mechanics as “old and boring,” especially in comparison to concepts like cosmology and quantum mechanics. This class really gave me an appreciation for the incredible utility of these timeless standards of physics. Quantum Mechanics II, taught by Prof. Darrell Schroeter, was impactful for a somewhat opposing reason: it demonstrated the remarkable utility of a rather complex and counterintuitive theory for straightforwardly solving countless problems.
Influential book: Introduction to
Quantum Mechanics, by David J. Griffiths and Darrell F. Schroeter.
Concept that blew my mind:
That the stuff we can see in the universe (stars, gas, dust) only accounts for 5% of the universe’s energy density. Cool stuff: I briefly played keyboard in a band. Also learned to play (and love) squash. Awards, fellowships, grants:
The Delord-Mockett grant provided the funds for my summer research project. Challenge I faced: In general,
it’s been pretty tough to work on a series of physics projects that are inherently computer science–related as a noncoder.
How Reed changed me:
In a somewhat nonacademic sense, coming to Reed has made me far more aware of (and engaged with) the issues going on in my community and society. In an academic sense, Reed has really given me a set of skills for tackling an immense assortment of problems, both physics- and non-physicsrelated. What’s next: I’ll be staying in
Portland for six months to a year and continuing my n-body simulation work with Johnny (we’ll be resuming our study of isolated galaxies).
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Hayden Hendersen
E N V I R O N M E N TA L S T U D I E S – P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E
Hometown: Raymond, Wisconsin Thesis advisor: Prof. Chris Koski Thesis: Implementation
Strategies for a Plant-Based School Lunch Program Policy as a Climate Change Mitigation Effort
What it’s about: Eating more plant-based food can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How could a school start serving vegan meals to reduce its foodprint? Funding, menu design, sampling, kitchen equipment, and even super-cool lunch ladies would need to be some of the implementation tools. What it’s really about: How do you get schools to serve plants and kids to eat them? In high school: My “senior
superlatives” were “biggest overachiever” and “worst dancer,” so I worked a bit too hard at the expense of letting loose. Even then, I respected that my fulfillment and fun come from a deep dedication to learning and making change.
Influential professors and classes: Ontological Politics
with Prof. LaShandra Sullivan [anthropology] and Decentering the Human with Prof. Christian Kroll [Spanish]. Both classes and professors legitimized my interests in conceptualizing interspecies relationships as meaningful academic study.
Influential book: How Forests
Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human by Eduardo Kohn. Concept that blew my mind
The interconnectedness of each so-called individual and species, and subject and object, and machine and human, dissipates boundaries and creates cultures and worlds.
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Cool stuff: I cocreated the Reed
Recycling Center, served on the Sustainability Committee, and helped establish a full-time sustainability coordinator role. I helped establish the pollinator garden in the orchard, cooked for 40+ students for five different semesters while hosting the Cascade Climate Network conference. I perfected a veggie burger recipe, which I regularly grilled up for 200+ students in the canyon, on the Great Lawn, or in the Quad. I taught third graders to make mac and cheese from potatoes, carrots, and nutritional yeast, lived in the Farm House, was a Greenboard leader, and Infoshop manager.
Awards, fellowships, grants:
I received the Environmental Studies Summer Experience Fellowship to write a Reed climate action plan and was in the final round of interviews for the Bon Appetit Sustainability Fellowship. (The hiring was paused due to COVID-19.) Challenges I faced: I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, endometriosis, IBS, and migraines while at Reed. I’ve had to manage all my appointments, recover from surgeries and procedures, and have time to feel sick, sleep, and take care of myself, all while working on- and off-campus jobs AND doing Reed. How Reed changed me: My
own health journey has taught me how to be a better and more empathetic advocate, whether for myself or the planet. I have learned to ask for help and be simultaneously direct and polite when working with others towards change, and listen much more than talk in class.
What’s next: I am attending
Portland State University for a master’s degree in Leadership for Sustainability Education and a master’s certificate in Sustainable Food Systems to prepare for a career in sustainable school garden and management.
David Kerry
HISTORY
Hometown: Tucson, Arizona Thesis adviser:
Prof. Margot Minardi Thesis: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way: The American Racial Imaginary and Finding Indians in the Philippines What it’s about: It explores the racial triangulation of Filipinos, Native Americans, and White Americans at the turn of the 20th century. It focuses on colonialism in both the continental United States and the Philippines, with a particular emphasis upon the colonial classroom to understand how race and national identity were formed. What it’s really about:
Americans love colonizing people and use race to justify it. In high school: I was a marching
band nerd (tenor sax!), a total APUSH geek, and a four-year varsity basketball player.
Influential professors: Professors
Margot Minardi and Radhika Natarajan taught me how a historian ought to think, but more importantly what the moral responsibility of an historian is when addressing the past for the present moment. Prof. Josh Howe’s conferences repeatedly set and surpassed my standards for what an engaging and thought-provoking conference looks like. Prof. Jackie Dirks has been a model advisor whose door was always open. She provided guidance that served me well throughout my time at Reed, and will continue to do so.
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Influential book: Notes of a Native
Son by James Baldwin.
Concept that blew my mind:
“Settler Colonialism and the Elimination” of the Native by Patrick Wolfe introduced me to the idea of settler colonialism as a construct rather than a standalone event.
Cool stuff: I was on the Reed
basketball team and Model UN. I was a research assistant for Prof. Margot Minardi, helping with her work on the disparate impacts of historical memory of the American Revolution. Through the SEEDS program, I was able to tutor local eighth graders in their AVID classes, and helped manage an after-school program for low-income students and their families. I designed and helped to implement an interactive timeline of the Multnomah County Health Department’s equity policies and sat on county committees guiding their Leading with Race initiative.
Challenges I faced: I come from a very low-income background, and Reed is a place of tremendous wealth. While this provided me with numerous opportunities, it was also isolating to be surrounded by students who were raised with far more money than I could imagine and were accustomed to the institutional advantage that provides. It isn’t easy to be a POC at Reed, and that was reflected in the curriculum. Reed’s history department doesn’t have much in the way of courses focused on indigenous history, so I often found myself having to find topics and histories on my own. How Reed changed me:
I’ve met the most amazing people at Reed who will be lifelong friends and mentors. My classmates and professors have made me into a more compassionate, free-thinking person. Financial aid: I am very grateful to have received extensive financial aid from Reed for the entirety of my time here. What’s next: Grad school? Law school? Both? First, I’m planning to take a year off to work and spend time with friends and family.
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Steven Garcia
ST UD IO A R T AN D B I O LO GY
Hometown: Beaumont, Texas Thesis advisers: Prof. Keith
Karoly [biology] and Prof. Gerri Ondrizek [art].
Thesis: In Consideration of Ethical Grounds
Concept that blew my mind: Art historian Alois
Riegl’s Kunstwollen denotes “characteristics and boundaries of an epoch’s aesthetics, as well as the intrinsic creative drive peculiar to it.” Thanks, Prof. Michelle Wang [art history]!
What it’s about: I collected soil samples from around the Portland metro area and analyzed their biological, chemical, and physical properties to determine how soil health differs across the city. I produced a series of maps with ArcGIS to overlay urbanization and social economic gradients over soil data to demonstrate what areas of the city and socioeconomic groups have greater access to healthy soil. My thesis aims to offer new methods of scientific data representation in an attempt to spark curiosity from the general population about ecological health in the age of the Anthropocene.
Transitioning from a school with giant classes to Reed's conference style was difficult for me, but it has also changed my entire way of learning for the better.
What it’s really about: Utilizing
How Reed changed me:
art as a tool to communicate scientific findings and uncover ecological inequities to mobilize community stewardship of the land we inhabit.
In high school: I took dual-credit
classes at a state university, but decided to complete the “traditional” four years at Reed. I do not regret this at all! I loved enjoying four years of learning new concepts and skills.
Influential professor: Prof. Gerri
Ondrizek [art] has really opened the world of biology and art to me.
Practice in the Anthropocene by Julie Reiss.
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year with the Peer Mentor Program Odyssey and later became a mentor in the program. I learned ballet and welding (plus a ton of other cool stuff), and worked in the Reed College Herbarium. I also got to take some amazing camping trips to places like the Olympic Peninsula and conduct independent research on Mt. Adams.
Challenges I faced:
I have learned to view the world through a critical lens and to celebrate the ways I am different. I no longer feel like a passive member of my community and have learned to internalize my own accomplishments. I think most importantly is the way Reed taught me to create space for the things I feel are worth doing. Financial aid: I would not be able to attend Reed without its amazing financial aid. I’ve gotten access to so many opportunities I wouldn’t have otherwise. What’s next: Pursuing my love
of plants and design!
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Influential book: Art, Theory and
Cool stuff: I started freshman
Shea Seery
C O M PA R AT I V E L I T E R AT U R E
Hometown:
Claremont, California Thesis adviser:
Prof. Nathalia King Thesis: A Rancièrean Reading on Contemporary Art: Ai Weiwei’s Life Cycle and Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus What it’s about: I use Rancière’s theory about what makes effective, meaningful political art as a starting framework for analyzing two major contemporary art exhibitions which center on transhistorical, transnational political issues. I use political theory, literary theory, and art criticism to compare different approaches to making political artwork. What it’s really about:
Question: How can art make meaningful political change in today’s world? Answer: Changing people’s perceptions of history, themselves, and one another. In high school: I was a very
curious, clever, and optimistic 18-year-old eager for challenges, and boy did Reed give me plenty.
Influential professor:
Prof. Pancho Savery [English] saw a spark in me early on and flamed the fire. He teaches people so they can change the world for the better. His dedication to this pursuit inspired me to work hard at Reed so that I can maximize my impacts beyond Reed. Influential book: Algorithms
of Oppression by Safiya Noble is such an important text in today’s online world!
Concept that blew my mind:
Using rhizomatic root structures as a metaphor for theoretical structures—everything is connected!
Cool stuff: I studied abroad in Paris, researched for a French political newspaper, assisted an internationally acclaimed artist in New York City, shadowed the curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, rehearsed with a multidisciplinary arts group in Austria, taught English to immigrants in Portland, camped in an ancient rain forest, interviewed members of the Black Panthers, visited a professor’s house in Italy, co-curated a local art exhibition, and constructed an immersive art installation. Challenges I faced: Reed is all about critical thinking, and so much criticism—of the world, this institution, and each other—can become extremely discouraging. One of the greatest challenges is learning how to turn critical thinking skills into positive motivation and collaborative mobilization. How Reed changed me:
I knew that in college I would gain thinking and writing skills. What I did not expect was that Reed would grant me worldly experiences which would completely change my perspective. Before arriving, I had never left the country. Now, I have experience working and learning in multiple cultures and countries, contacts across disciplines, and friends from far and wide. Reed has changed what I thought was possible. Financial aid: Financial aid provides access to resources and opportunities otherwise unimaginable. I am grateful every day and am determined to make the most out of this education. What’s next: As Reed’s nominee
for the Davis Fellowship, I was planning on starting an arts program at a homelessness prevention service in Skid Row. Because of COVID-19, the Davis was canceled, so who knows?
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Maxine Elena Calle
M AT H E M AT I C S
Hometown:
Concept that blew my mind:
San Diego, California
There are always two antipodal points on the Earth's equator with the same temperature.
Thesis adviser:
Prof. Kyle Ormsby Thesis: Morse Theory and Flow
Categories
What it’s about: Morse theory seeks to understand ambient spaces by studying the differentiable functions on them. Imagine flooding a landscape with water, and watching the flow of that water over the surface. We can record that information and use various mathematical tools to understand when spaces are topologically “the same” even if they look different to the naked eye. One method of storing this sort of information is called the flow category, and my thesis focuses on a particular result that relates the flow category of a Morse function to the original underlying space. What it’s really about: How can we think of two spaces as “the same” when we have no fixed notion of shape? In high school: I wore a lot of
eyeliner and dyed my hair all the time, but was a goody-twoshoes that didn’t like breaking the rules.
Influential book: Category
Theory in Context by Emily Riehl.
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mathematics research, tutored in the math help center, co-organized STEMGeMs (Reed’s student group for gender minorities in STEM), and taught in an aerial acrobatics studio.
Awards: Outstanding poster award for original mathematical research presentation. Challenge I faced:
Mathematics should be accessible to more than the “initiated few.” People from disadvantaged communities face systemic hindrances that often are not the result of overt discouragement, but rather a lack of active support and empowerment, due largely to mass underrepresentation. How Reed changed me:
It’s been lovely to be around people as interested in learning as I am, both in and out of the classroom. Reed has inspired me to try to live with radical kindness. Financial aid: I would not have been able to attend Reed without help from the generous scholarships I have received, including the Alvin and Alveda Pearson Memorial Scholarship and the James B. Small Scholarship. Denise VanLeuven and the music department provided a scholarship for my piano lessons at Reed, enabling me to grow as a musician and as a more well-rounded member of the community. What’s next: I received the NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship Program award and will enter a PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Influential professors: I have learned to think of mathematics as a language, as a story that we tell each other. Prof. Irena Swanson’s Introduction to Analysis class showed me a way of doing mathematics that was unlike anything I’d ever seen before. She was the first professor who encouraged me to be a math major. Prof. Jerry Shurman’s Vector Calculus course helped me embrace mathematical learning and problem-solving as a collaborative activity.
Cool stuff: I published original
Mayaki Kimba
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Hometown:
Purmerend, Netherlands Thesis adviser:
Prof. Tamara Metz Thesis: Civilized Beings and the Idea of Social Citizenship What it’s about: It concerns a highly influential essay by British sociologist T.H. Marshall on citizenship. I show that Marshall relies on assumptions that come from imperial ideology. As a result, his seminal account of citizenship perpetuates imperialism by necessitating a racialized hostility toward migrants of color. What it’s really about: The way
we think about citizenship is racist and needs to change.
In high school: I was studious
and driven, but also concerned with trying to fit in.
Influential professor: Liberalism
and Its Critics with Prof. Tamara Metz taught me how thoughtprovoking, engaged, and exciting political theory can be.
Influential book: Alibis of Empire
by Karuna Mantena helped me identify not just the fallacy, but also the imperial origins of the still common view of culture as a homogeneous whole that determines all of our identities, thoughts and actions.
Concept that blew my mind: Taking classes with
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Prof. Radhika Natarajan [history] made me understand the analytical invalidity of distinctions between domestic and imperial histories. This has transformed how I see and understand the world.
Cool stuff: I have been the cochair of the Student Committee on Academic Policy and Planning, gone to conferences with Model UN, organized events with the International Student Advisory Board, and pitched to buy and sell stocks at Reed’s Investment Club. I did research with SEEDS to strengthen community engagement on campus, explored the role of former slave plantations as present-day tourist destinations in Curaçao (Dutch Caribbean), and visited every single station of the Berlin U-Bahn, London Underground, and Paris Métro. Challenges I faced: Advocating for myself, being proactive in seeking out opportunities, and building relationships with faculty did not come naturally to me, especially as someone foreign to the country and elite institutions like Reed. My peers were tremendously important in helping me overcome these challenges. How Reed changed me:
I have met people here who have helped me understand our responsibilities to the communities that we're a part of and whose courage, dedication, and compassion in fighting injustice and oppression will continue to inspire me for many years to come. Financial aid: There is no way I could have attended Reed without financial aid. In my four years, I have continued to be amazed by the opportunities that I have been able to access thanks to financial aid. It is something I cannot take for granted and remain genuinely grateful for. What’s next: I will pursue a PhD
in political science at Columbia University, focusing on political theory and aspiring to become an engaged teacher-scholar.
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Giorlando Ramirez
ECONOMICS
Hometown: Palm Bay, Florida, and Dorado, Puerto Rico Thesis adviser:
Prof. Kim Clausing Thesis: Measuring the Resiliency of U.S. Foreign Direct Investment to Currency Crises What it’s about: How U.S.-based multinational firms that have established or are planning on establishing business or investments in a given country react to a major depreciation of that country’s currency. What it’s really about: When everyone is panicking, do people with a longer-term outlook have a more measured response? In high school: I was energetic,
passionate, and eager to do anything and everything. I believed everything had a clearcut path and there was little to no ambiguity in the actions we must take to do things.
Influential Reed class: I loved
Hum 110 and Hum 220. They were my first meaningful exposure to Western art, literature, and thought, as well as my first lessons in what it means to critically examine (challenge?) the canon.
Influential book: The Lonely
Londoners by Samuel Selvon.
Concept that blew my mind:
Cool stuff: I was a senator in the student senate, president of the Reed College Investment Club, a Reed Reactor operator, chair of the Student Committee on
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Challenges I faced: I was woefully unprepared for Reed, academically and socially. I felt like an outsider the second I got here and struggled to find comfort in both dimensions for a long time. How Reed changed me:
I learned how to actually go about thinking, and that rarely do things lend themselves to simple explanations or world views. This gift—the ability to think in a critical and constructive manner—combined with an understanding (or lack thereof) of the complexity of the world, have allowed me to begin to forge the kind of person I hope to be. Financial aid: Tons! Thank you! I would not be here without the extremely generous financial aid Reed offered me. This financial aid has meant the world to me; it granted me a sense of comfort and stability I didn’t know was possible. Further, it allowed me to participate in conversations where voices like mine are often unheard. During my time at Reed, this empowered me to speak up when necessary, as well as inspired me to take every step possible to ensure others like me are forever a part of this institution. What’s next: I’m off to Brazil,
Cuba, Spain, and Zimbabwe for my Watson Fellowship. While there, I plan to explore the process of currency transitions—specifically, what the reshaping and reforming of a national identity looks like when even the mundane change in your wallet is changing.
Gio is holding Tecos horchata, which got him through Reed
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Neoliberalism. It somehow manages to make its way into many disciplines, and there appears to be a consensus that this ideology has shaped much of the world since the late 20th century. Simultaneously it is so difficult to assign its defining features. I mean, my god.
Academic Policies and Planning, and a housing adviser. I was Feast Czar my sophomore year, a comp bio and econ tutor, and interned at Goldman Sachs.
Jacey de la Torre
ENGLISH
Hometown:
Concept that blew my mind:
El Sobrante, California
Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of “the smooth and the striated” delineates between uncategorized, unlimited “smooth” spaces and ordered, formal, often obstructive “striated” spaces as a framework for examining the systems that govern our daily lives and modes of being.
Thesis adviser:
Prof. Pancho Savery Thesis: Ghost Stories: Discovering and Disintegrating Home Space What it’s about: Through a series of memoir-style nonfiction narrative essays, I explore the mutability of the definition of home, the ways in which home constitutes itself both as space and concept, and the ways that family relationships shape and destabilize these meanings. What it’s really about:
I get messy about my family members and you can read all about it! In high school: As a transfer
student who commuted 20 minutes from a low-income neighborhood to a wealthy public high school, I felt like I had a unique perspective at my school. I loved class, played oboe in the school band, volunteered a lot, and was the captain of the cross-country and track team.
Influential professor: I have
been deeply influenced by Prof. Pancho Savery’s democratic approach in the classroom, in which the students in conference are responsible for educating themselves by educating each other.
Influential book: Aisha Sabatini
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Sloan’s Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit is a narrative memoir, similar to the writing that I modeled during thesis. She presents seemingly disparate topics, weaves them together slowly and beautifully, and allows spaces of unknowing ambiguity to live bravely in her writing.
Cool stuff: I was a student leader for Reed’s Christian club, Oh For Christ’s Sake, and joined The Flame, a nonliturgical church for queer folk based on radical community care in downtown Portland. I was a signator for Latinx Student Union and helped organize Reed’s first-ever Latinx Heritage Month. I ran the Portland Marathon for three years, and, in 2017, was the winner of my age group. Awards, fellowships, grants:
My writing has been presented at two conferences and published in two online magazines. I also received Phi Beta Kappa honors and an Eddings Research Grant at graduation. Challenges I faced: As a lowincome student, I worked multiple jobs every year to stay afloat and often found that my everyday problems and experiences were not shared by my (wealthier) peers. But the community and friends that I’ve found here have held me together these four years. How Reed changed me: Reed
pushed me out of my comfort zone. I became a much more measured, assertive, and deliberate person.
Financial aid: Financial aid has allowed me to receive this rare and beautiful education. I’m especially grateful for the David Eddings Scholarship for English majors. What’s next: Substitute
teaching, then applying to grad school so I can become a high school teacher!
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Stephanie Gee
NEUROSCIENCE
Hometown:
Concept that blew my mind:
Los Altos, California
Scientific progress is built on failure.
Thesis adviser:
Prof. Kara Cerveny Thesis: The Effects of Low Dose Gamma Radiation on Zebrafish Development What it’s about: I exposed 4-day old zebrafish to radiation and then imaged them at 5 and 9 days old to see what changed, compared to non-irradiated controls. I found three incredible compensatory responses: 1) elevated radioprotective pigmentation, 2) delayed red blood cell elevation, and 3) macrophage elevation. What it’s really about:
Spending a year exploring my three passions—biology, radiation science, and photography—at the same time. In high school: I was really good
at making flashcards.
Influential professor: On one
Cool stuff: Learned how to stand backwards on a cantering horse. Trained with professional circus acrobats. Hiked Machu Picchu. Photographed wild orangutans to help remote villages in Indonesian Borneo access healthcare. Worked as a pro photographer for B-Corp venture capitalists. Presented research at five conferences around the nation. Analyzed flies from the ISS for NASA. Researched a cure for ALS. Operated Reed’s nuclear reactor. Challenges I faced: Limiting the number of houseplants I have. We’re at 30 and counting. How Reed changed me:
I realized that flashcards weren’t the best way to learn what’s most important—like how to think critically, solve problems, and express my ideas. Now, I try to learn through engaging deeply with material, so flashcards no longer appear in obscure places (shoes, the laundry machine, etc.).
of the first days of Behavioral Neuroscience, Paul Currie scooped a sheep brain out of a bucket and put it in my hands. I’d been studying neuroscience for a while by then but had never seen a real brain. That was probably one of the happiest days I had at Reed. And of course, Kara Cerveny and Melinda Krahenbuhl, who made my dream thesis possible.
Financial aid: Financial aid made my Reed education possible. Without it, the unique research opportunities, global travel, and incredible connections I made at Reed wouldn’t have happened. I’m very grateful.
Influential book: The Joy Luck
What’s next: The Watson
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Fellowship. I’ll spend a year investigating how atomic radiation influences lives around the world by researching the biological effects and photographing the social impacts. I’m doing so in Japan, South Korea, Ukraine, Australia, Madagascar, and Austria.
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Club by Amy Tan. She writes about loss and intergenerational trauma, and about finding hope while experiencing both. After coming to Reed two months after my dad passed away unexpectedly, that made a huge difference.
Zesean Moiz Ali
CHEMISTRY
Hometown: Happy Valley, Oregon Thesis advisers: Profs. Danielle
Cass and Rebecca LaLonde
Thesis: Attempts to Identify, Extract, and Purify Biologically Active Compounds in Lion’s Mane What it’s about: Lion’s mane, a mushroom prevalent in East Asia, has been shown to have amazing health benefits relating to the brain, including the ability to treat Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and stroke. We’re growing mushrooms and trying to extract the active compounds. What it’s really about: Curing
diseases by growing mushrooms. Plants have medicinal qualities, and it’s our job to explore them.
In high school: I was loud,
intense, and competitive.
Influential professor:
Prof. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri [religion] showed me that I love the study of religion, a field I was not particularly interested in before. Exploring political and racial issues that relate to religion and through the lens of religion is fascinating. Kambiz always asked the right questions and guided us toward extremely deep and rich conclusions regarding the material at hand. Influential book: The Souls of Black
Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Concept that blew my mind:
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An orthodox view in quantum mechanics is that phenomena do not exist before they’re observed. Prof. Dan Gerrity [chemistry] taught me that one. Cool stuff: I wrote an academic
paper for a journal about infusing social justice into chemistry classes, was an admission office tour guide, did internships in New York City and Washington, D.C., was a tutor and a member
of Honor Council, was captain of the basketball team, was president of the American Chemical Society chapter, and a member of RELAY. Awards, fellowships, grants:
Fulbright semifinalist, commendation for excellence each year, summer internship award. Challenges I faced: Juggling a full course load while helping out my family here in Portland. How Reed changed me: Reed taught me that I love intellectual discourse. I love ideas, I love reading and writing, but I hate debating. It’s just not constructive. Financial aid: I would not have been able to attend without it. It means the world to me. I’m graduating debt-free. Not a lot of people can say that. What’s next: A master’s at Harvard Divinity School. Over the course of my Reed career, I did a summer in nonprofit political advocacy, a summer in organic chemistry research, and a summer in finance. None of those were quite my passion. During what was a very classic Reed-style paper conference, Prof. Kristin Scheible [religion] told me that she saw a genuine interest and talent within me and that I should apply to Harvard Divinity School because it could be a creative way to combine all my interests. And, I found a concentration that really clicked for me. Religion, Ethics, and Politics explores the role that religious beliefs and practices play in instructing dispositions and choices. I can explore the questions I’m passionate about through the lens of religious study: how people’s religious beliefs shape their political identities and inform their policy preferences.
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Titan
A graphic novel by François Vigneault ’13 imagines a future beset with new forms of oppression on the moons of Saturn.
The air is thick with anger and heavy with heat. Protestors are rallying, dissenting with their voices and signs. The chants, sprinkled with insults, make it hard to hear the bullhornbolstered commands of the enforcers on the other side of the gathering. The officers are armed and anxious. They say the assembly is unlawful. They tell the protestors to fall back. They say it is the final warning. Though this sounds like it could be a description of downtown Portland in the summer of 2020, it is in fact a scene from Titan, a graphic novel created by François Vigneault ’13. Saturn’s eponymous moon has been turned into a mining colony. João da Silva is sent to the Homestead Station plant with orders to bring it back up to speed. Recently, productivity and profits have dropped, and if João can’t reverse this trend, all the employees will lose their jobs. This would be an issue anywhere, but it is a much bigger problem on Titan, where 50,000 of the workers are genetically engineered giants, named after the moon itself. These Titans are the descendants of colonists who were genetically modified to work in the planet’s low-gravity environment. And while their size makes them intimidating, they are treated as second-class citizens by the nonmodified humans of the station, who are referred to as Terrans. When João touches down, he quickly realizes he will not only be dealing with debilitating inefficiency, but also with racialized prejudice. The situation only becomes more complicated when he begins developing feelings for the impressive Titan union representative, Phoebe Mackintosh. François took an unusual route to Reed. He was a so-called non-traditional student 24 Reed Magazine september 2020
twice over, as he was both a transfer student and 35 years old when he enrolled. Maybe because of these factors, he found the campus culture intriguing, and was stimulated by the worldview of students only a few years out of high school. He also enjoyed the student body’s radical politics—a fact that won’t surprise anyone who reads Titan. He credits Reed with “opening his eyes to other literary backgrounds.” He majored in English and
took classes on modernism, Russian literature, encyclopedic literature, and others that exposed him to new traditions and tropes, expanding his ideas about narrative. François attributes two specific experiences at Reed to his creation of Titan. First, his class on comics with visiting art professor Patrick Hebert [2011–12] allowed him the time to develop an idea for a comic that had been in the back of his mind for a while.
[English 1981–]. He chose to analyze the works of Jaime Hernandez, cocreator of the comic book series Love and Rockets. François was impressed with the personal agency he had throughout the process of writing his thesis. Some colleges might not have allowed an English major to write about graphic novels, but this creative license is something he still cherishes. He was able to spend an entire academic year immersed in Hernandez, an experience that allowed him time to focus on the nuance and subtleties of the genre. This attention to form leaps from the pages of Titan, deceptively beautiful with its pink, black, and white palette. The novel explores
Titans are the descendants of colonists who were genetically modified to work in the planet’s low-gravity environment.
Titan’s “genesis myth,” as he calls it, came in an unexpected form: Many years earlier he had witnessed two dogs hanging out together, one big and one quite small. While this sight might have been mundane, it made him think of the intense selective process required to breed them. These dogs were technically the same species, but due to our genetic engineering they were morphologically so different. He thought: what if it were the
same for humans? Prof. Hebert’s class gave him an excuse to imagine the circumstances that could necessitate genetic engineering on humans, which led him to a more novel idea: a human body designed for manual labor in low gravity—the Titan. By the end of the class he had drafted the first 10 or 12 pages of his debut work. The second Reed experience was writing his senior thesis with Prof. Gail Sherman
oppression and inequity and how these conditions could survive in different forms even in the far future. The story is as preoccupied with culture clash, class conflict, labor relations, and police brutality as it is with romance. François makes this clear through the historical allusions sprinkled throughout the comic (for example, the name of the mining station echoes the Homestead strike of 1892) and the manifold references to music. His crisp, cinematic approach to pacing and composition shines in the more intimate moments, while also giving busier scenes enough space to breathe. All of these facets come together to create a tense and riveting read. You won’t want to put it down, and when you do, you will recommend it to friends. —JOSH COX ’18
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Merrie Blocker ’69 translated On a Clear April Morning: A Jewish Journey by Marcos Iolovitch. It is a lyrical and riveting coming-ofage story set among early 20th-century settlers brought to an almost unknown Jewish farming experiment in an isolated corner of Brazil. This first English edition includes Merrie’s elucidating historical notes on the origin of Jewish farming communities in the United States, Canada, and South America. (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Prozac Monologues: A Voice from the Edge is the debut book by Willa Goodfellow ’75. It is part memoir of misdiagnosis and part self-help guide about life on the bipolar spectrum. Through edgy, empathetic, and comedic essays, she offers information about a mood disorder frequently mistaken for major depression as well as resources for recovery and further study. Plus, Costa Rica. (She Writes Press, 2020)
Word Salad Days, a collection of poems by Ed Fisher ’69, is a lyrical, satirical work featuring recycled fragments and non sequiturs. He notes that it is ghost-written by his sleeptalking self, in which the Platonic censor was kept at bay. His nom de plume, Moonman Ivy Mosquito, is a persona that came to him in a dream back when psychedelic rock groups like “Iron Butterfly” were in vogue. His methodology borrows from surrealism, Dadaism, Gestalt psychology, and the Rorschach technique.
Orrin Wang ’79 has two new books coming out. One is an authored monograph, Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation and the Cut of Romanticism, in the Lit Z series from Fordham University Press (2020), and the other is an edited collection of essays, Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy, that illustrates the ongoing intellectual richness found both in Mary Shelley’s work and in contemporary ways of thinking about it. (Bloomsbury, 2020)
After formal retirement from his 35-year faculty position at Humboldt State University, David Hankin ’71, capped off his academic career by publishing Sampling Theory for the Ecological and Natural Resource Sciences, a rigorous but understandable introduction to the field of sampling theory for ecologists and natural resource scientists. This work was achieved with co-author (and a highly esteemed former student of his) Michael Mohr. (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Queen in Blue, a new poetry collection by Ambalila Hemsell ’09, is a gorgeous and wry debut that claims physical strength, toughness, and authority for femininity. The poems address the insatiable fear of motherhood and the violence embedded in natural processes of creation, birth, and survival. This collection artfully tackles what it means to reconcile one’s own needs and desires with those of others, and to find abundance and strength in the midst of catastrophe. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Robert Royhl Smith ’71, professor emeritus at Montana State University, has published Robert Royhl Catalogue Raisonne, which includes 400 of his works spanning over five decades of artistic production. In his artist commentary he notes, “If I had to sum up what my goal is as an artist in one sentence, it might be, the job of the artist is the re-enchantment of the world.”
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Kirsten Volness, an electroacoustic composer and pianist, composed Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices from the Great War, which tells the story of World War I as experienced by the women who lived through it. The composition won a 2020 Discovery Grant from the Opera Grants for Female Composers program to support the development of this work.
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Best Wishes In her debut album, Maria Maita-Keppeler ’14 is intimate but never fragile. A favorite songwriting exercise for Maria Maita-Keppeler ’14 involves sitting in the back of the room at a particularly egalitarian open mic night until she hears the kind of cheesy lyric that makes her bristle. “I wait for those lines,” she says via telephone. “And I think, what feels so fake about this? And what would my version of this be? Then I write that.” Open mic nights have long been a helpful piece of her process. First in her native Eugene, then at Reed’s student union poetry nights and at open mics throughout Portland, they were instrumental in developing the introverted—but not shy, she stresses—musician’s craft and her confidence. “In high school, extroversion really gets rewarded, and I just tried to stay out of the way,” she says. Arriving at Reed, she suddenly felt seen. “If I holed up in my room and played guitar all night, people weren’t like ‘Why didn’t you come out?’ They were like ‘Oh, that’s cool!’ It was a world of like-minded people for the first time, for me.” Though some of her fondest memories come from taking Russian for a year, she studied visual art at Reed. Her studies would eventually lead her to a three-month stint in Kyoto learning to make Japanese woodblock prints, then to an internship in San Francisco. That’s where she met Reed grad Matthew Zeltzer ’10, who would become her partner and frequent tourmate. After settling back in Portland at the end of 2014, the two set off on regional tours together every three or four weeks, self-booking good shows and bad ones with equal enthusiasm. “Because I was so green with performing, it was a good way to learn,” she says. “We can handle disappointing gigs now, because we’ve had gigs where people weren’t even looking at us.” The “we” in question is Maria’s band, MAITA, which signed to the influential Kill Rock Stars label (Elliott Smith, SleaterKinney) in September 2019 and released
their debut full length, Best Wishes, this as a teen. “I guess I’m not very private,” she May. It’s an intimate, patient record that admits. “But that’s advice I’d give any songfeels more like a private conversation than writer: if there’s something you’re scared a manifesto. MAITA is as comfortable with to put in a song, you probably should put candied licks and distortit in. I think our hidden ed guitars (“Can’t Blame feelings are extremea Kid”) as with a slowly similar to other peoburning waltz (“Boy”), ple’s hidden feelings. And making them a hard music is such a great tool band to pigeonhole. The for expressing that.” through line, though, is There are, of course, Maria’s engaging vocal some particularly comdelivery—often sweet plicated feelings that but never delicate— come with releasing your and her open-journal band’s well-reviewed lyricism. Best Wishes is debut album in the midst an album about growing of a global pandemic. up, about the urgent and MAITA’s Best Wishes (Kill Rock Stars, 2019) And like most touring immature relationships bands, MAITA has been that form us. But it’s also an album about grounded since March. But the same openthe ways unchecked capitalism fails artists: hearted spirit that allows Maria to find inspiabout working crappy jobs, living in expen- ration from a cheesy open mic performance sive cities, and running up debt in order to has her bullish about MAITA’s future. “I realdo the thing you love. All of this is delivered ly believe that an album can be a snapshot with a sneaky sense of humor, tension, and of a period of your life, and every one can real vulnerability. be different,” she says. “This [period] is so Maria says she writes her songs with her different. It would be a waste to not write own younger self in mind, attempting to about it in some way. Some creation should give listeners a line to something as personcome out of it.” —CASEY JARMAN al as the indie music that first excited her
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All Jon Appleton’s scores, recordings, letters (personal and professional), and publications are in the Rauner Special Collections Library and in Jones Media Center at Dartmouth College. Jon donated his Steinway B piano, on which he composed most of his music for 50 years, to Reed. Thanks, Jon.
Annette Wong Jere in Zambia), where we worked on the conflict of laws problem on Kenyan marriage code and the many different types of marriages there. (I was also taking Muslim law at SOAS.) Just returned from Cartagena for a week’s music festival. In October/ November we spent 25 days in Singapore, Bangkok, and Bhutan, where I went for the Bhutan Foundation board meeting and then went south to areas now opening for river rafting and trekking through Manas jungle. Am holed up on Long Island for the duration and running my practice from out here, but still hear from Mick McGarvey and Annette Jere and correspond with Armen Chakerian, and shared Chinese New Year with Pete McCaughan and family. Probably back to India as soon as this is over.”
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We were pleased to hear from the inimitable Don Green ’54, who (as readers may recall) finally truly earned his Reed BA in 2004, which must be some kind of record. He was telling us about some of the joys and tribulations of being an arbitrator for FINRA, the Financial Industries Regulatory Authority. Good on you, Don.
1961
Meet George Jetson! (Not a Reedie.)
1963
Ted Kaplan enjoyed the recent class notes from Dennis McGilvray ’65 and Tom Weisner ’65. “Dennis, your last conference reminds me when I was at SOAS with Prof. Allott at the African Law Institute (thanks to my visit with
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Beth Bartholomew retired from kidney dialysis social work 12 years ago and has been active at University Congregational United Church of Christ in Seattle in choir, on the church council, leading the Racial Justice Book Club, volunteering in the office on the front desk, and transcribing sermons from the website (selfassigned mission). “These days church
meetings are via Zoom. Crash course for most of us. My niece Toni and daughter Bonnie live across the country and signed us up for Marco Polo so we can talk to each other virtually face to face, which brightens my day. Singing at the piano, creative cooking, and writing notes are keeping me calm in this time of social distancing.”
1965
Elisabeth Field Wheeler shared an article from the North Carolina State Libraries June newsletter (www.lib.ncsu.edu /news) “that shows what someone that really wanted to go to her 55th reunion this year does in her retirement.” Elisabeth, now a Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Emeritus at NC State, partnered with the libraries in 2003 to create the InsideWood database, which now holds over 50,000 images and nearly 10,000 descriptions of tree species, both modern and ancient. Users the world over, in disciplines from paleobotany to art, have found InsideWood more useful than ever under current quarantine measures, as judged both by a 50% increase in usage compared with last year and by the grateful messages Elisabeth has been receiving as curator.
1966
Galen Cranz is learning how to lecture online. Galen is newly retired from UC Berkeley, where she taught architecture from a social point of view for 43 years, but she’s still lecturing, which has required a new medium. She lectured on the history of urban parks for DOROT in New York City and made two conference presentations on body-conscious
Galen Cranz ’66 at the China’s Terracotta Warriors exhibit, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2013.
design (follow her on Instagram: @bodyconsciousdesign) to the Environmental Design Research Association and the International Association for PersonEnvironment Studies. “I hope higher education does not convert to this medium full time. There is no substitute for face to face interaction between professors and students. Let’s keep REED real. I’m doubling my annual contribution!” Way to go, Galen. Fred Pumpian-Mindlin was invited to present his string game storytelling workshop at the National Storytelling Summit in Fremont, California, in 2019. Fred works full time teaching string game storytelling at MacQuiddy Elementary School, Pajaro Valley Unified School District, Watsonville, California.
1967
Kathleen (Bucklin) Davies is making face masks, 42 and counting, for family, friends, and neighbors in Hillburn, New York, to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
1968
On February 8 (his 73rd birthday!), Alan Ackerman retired from Bank of America, where he was a z/VM systems programmer and a z/Linux system administrator. Then it was off to Hawaii with wife Betsy, whose band, the Humuhumunukunukuapua‘a and Strathspey Society, had a gig playing for a Scottish country dance workshop. (Betsy plays the flute; the humuhumunukunukuapua‘a is the state fish of Hawaii.) Back home, they got a call from Alameda County (California)
that told them to shelter in place, so that’s what they’ve been doing. “We are allowed out for exercise and to go to the store. Mostly we have been getting groceries from home delivery and goods from Amazon Prime, and taking the dog for a walk every day. I like hiking and taking pictures of wildflowers, but I miss English and Scottish country dancing, which is, so far, shut down. The rules keep changing—we are now required to go out with a mask on. Restaurants have only take-away. The library is shut down, alas, but I can get e-books on my iPhone from them.”
1969
Thirty years ago, Merrie Blocker discovered a gorgeously written autobiographical novel in Portuguese by a Jewish immigrant to a farming community in the far south of Brazil, where she was serving as cultural attache at the U.S. Consulate. It was originally published in 1940. Merrie swore someday she would translate it so the world could have it. On a Clear April Morning was published in June, including the results of Merrie’s historical research on Jewish immigration to Brazil and intellectual life in an immigrant city, Porto Alegre, a much smaller version of New York. To help find a publisher, Merrie also developed a blog on the lives of Jewish immigrant farmers in the Americas who received assistance from Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the builder of the Vienna-Constantinople railroad. You can find it at thebaronhirschcommunity. org. (See Reediana.) Ed Fisher has published his fifth collection of poems! (See Reediana.)
Every year for the last 10 years, Elisabeth Field Wheeler ’65 has created a “Plants with a Past” Calendar that features fossil woods from the InsideWood database. Here’s a page from one. Kathleen (Bucklin) Davies ’67 is making face masks for family, friends, and neighbors.
William Roberts writes, “I continue my transition into retirement, having published a paper in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology last December based on data that I collected over 30 years ago, in what seems like my youth (although it was in fact my middle age). From my vantage point in Canada, I continue to look with wonder and horror at the wrecking of America in this time of pandemic. My best wishes to my class and to the entire Reed community: stay safe, stay happy, stay active.”
Merrie Blocker ’69 has translated to English the first work to feature the Jewish community in Brazil as subject matter.
1970
Elvis meets Nixon.
1971
On June 4, Douglas Fenner presented an online lecture, “Can We Save Coral Reefs?” to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, which was streamed on their website and remains there, and is also on YouTube. Three years following his formal complete retirement from his long-term (35+ years) faculty position at Humboldt State University, David Hankin “culminated” his academic career with the publication of Sampling Theory: For the Ecological and Natural Resource Sciences. “Tons of work, but it was great fun working with a brilliant coauthor (former MS student of mine, Michael Mohr). This will never happen again—I am now working on Reed Magazine september 2020 29
Class Notes rebuilding fine grand and upright pianos (Steinway, Mason & Hamlin) and trying to improve my piano playing. :)” (See Reediana.) Back in April, Spencer Smith, who is managing director of Seapoint Books and Media, sent us a dispatch from the world of publishing. “Overall, total book sales are down more than 30% during the virus period—as compared to the same period last year. Almost all genres are affected—but if you want to become a romance novelist, now’s the time! Our book distributor, the largest independent distributor in the country, is on hiatus until May 15. . . . Bookstores are shut down, but they are trying to compensate with phone orders and mail delivery or curbside pickup. Amazon orders are down from their usual volume. Amazon has been giving preference to COVIDrelated orders, so book orders have been sidelined, as have reorders from publishers. Our distributor tells me Amazon orders are beginning to pick up but are not back to normal. Seapoint’s income has been proportionally affected, but we (and our authors) are fortunate that we did not publish any new titles into this sales environment. . . . We are working on some exciting books for fall 2020, and we expect to launch them into a muchimproved market.” Robert Royhl Smith has written a book on his art, which he shows under the name Robert Royhl. (See Reediana.)
1972-1973-1974
Woodward and Bernstein expose Watergate scandal; Nixon goes home.
1975
Steven Fowkes has started writing his seventh book, Natural Anti-Viral Self Defense. Due to the time sensitivity of the subject, he is publishing it as it is being written on the Patreon.com platform. He reports that life has not changed much recently: still too many hours sitting in front of a computer, with multiple brief daily episodes of vegetable gardening and landscaping, punctuated by semimonthly construction projects. His sweetheart is sheltering in Arizona and he’s in California, so he’s grown a goatee. And his epicylindrical periodic table (first appearing in the pages of Reed Magazine) is still evolving. Mendeleev would be proud, Stephen.
1976
Redford and Hoffman portray Woodward and Bernstein.
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Posters designed by Maggie Rudy ’80 are available to download at her website. Spencer Smith ’71 looks toward the future of publishing. Steven Fowkes ’75 shows off his sheltering-in-place goatee and his epicylindrical periodic table. Dave Gallison ’78 (right) has found a worthy successor, Aaron Good ’01, to take over his career counseling business!
1977
Robert Cohn is still vertical.
1978
Mark Aronson ’79, Susan BrophySpilka ’77, Jaci (Berdahl) Cuddy, Steve Hankin ’75, Jill Kuhnheim ’79, and Martin Land ’77 have been staying in touch and checking up on one another since the coronavirus debacle began. “Just goes to show you that it can take a plague or at least a rather significant occurrence to bring some old friends back together,” says Jaci. Reedie succeeds Reedie: Dave Gallison has turned over the reins of his career counseling business to Aaron Good ’01.
1979
In April, Diane Solomon’s article “Practicing the ABCDEs of Self-Care in Pandemic Times” was published in Off the Charts, the blog of the American Journal of Nursing. The article was republished in the journal itself in the July issue’s “Best of the Blog” column. “My major was psychology at Reed, so it still fits!” Diana Stetson’s work as an environmental artist was chosen to represent the state of New Mexico in a Parade magazine article celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The thrust of Diana’s part is that artists can make a difference with social issues. “I was a bio major, naturally ended up as an artist (strongly influenced by Prof. Robert Palladino [art 1969–84] and Prof. Lloyd Reynolds [English and art 1929–69], may they rest in peace), and always said my bio advisor/friend for life, Dr. Bert Brehm [biology 1962–93],
was my best art teacher. Now you can see the connection.” Search for Diana’s name at parade.com to see her contribution and those of the other 49 states. The Keats-Shelley Association of America has awarded Orrin Wang its Distinguished Scholar Award for 2020. Orrin continues to teach English and
Reedies gathering in the COVID-19 era! Left to right, top row: Andrew Rumbach ’02 and Natalie Franz, Noah Rindos ’02 with Milo and Luca, Peter Jordan ’03 and Rachael Relph ’03; middle row: Sunny Daly ’03 and Will Myers with Arja, Steph Opitz Lanford and Ethan Wilensky-Lanford ’03 with Foss and Shay, Emily Johnson ’02 and Michael Knapp MALS ’09 with Lula and Huck; bottom row: Liz Sanders and Jonathan Murphy ’05, Lydia Choy and Drew Skillman ’02 with Cedar, and... the Doyle Owl!
comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park, and has recently become the co–general editor of Romantic Circles. He also has two books coming out this year. He wishes all his friends and members of the Reedie community health and safety this fall and beyond. (See Reediana.)
1980
As director of government affairs for Transform Education New Mexico, Charles Goodmacher works toward educational equity, which has become more of a challenge during the pandemic; read more at riograndesun.com. The Oregonian featured the recent “Wear a Mask” poster project by Maggie Rudy. She has been trying to find ways to help children and those who work with them during the pandemic and has designed a poster featuring her signature handmade animals. So far it has been translated into over 30 languages and is available for free at maggierudy. com/wear-a-mask-free-poster. “I’d love it if some of those smart multilingual Reedies would send me child-friendly translations for more languages!”
1981–92
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide / Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein / Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs / Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
1993
Vijay Shah is speaking out about racial profiling. In 2010, a federal jury determined that the Secret Service violated his rights during the Democratic National Convention six years earlier. In addition to delivering a sharp rebuke to the Secret Service, the verdict affirmed the Constitution. “It feels glorious to convey my dramatic story, and find people responding to my pursuit of justice.” He reports that alumni have really encouraged him.
underneath the theater. My one year at Reed proved that I was not ready to be a student there. But, my dreams after dreams after dreams prove that my story there was unrealized.”
1996–97
Deep Blue defeats Kasparov.
1998
Ben Salzberg dropped us a line: “Enduring #shelterinplace, just got two new guitars, and finally after 8 years finished my MALS degree! That’s right, I signed up to write a second thesis. It’s on consciousness, and is available on ResearchGate.” (Search for “Consciousness: Where Are We?”) Ray Wells had only one graduation gift to buy this year, so he only bought one copy of the Impoverished Students’ Book. At $9.95 in the Reed bookstore, with a portion of the proceeds going to financial aid at Reed, it’s a great addition to any graduation or housewarming present.
Josh Elliott’s new podcast, So, How Are You Doing? explores life in the COVID19 era via interviews with various individuals on various continents. Find it at sohowareyoudoing.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Hannah True Sears, who turned 45 in March, is seeking employment using her information services degree but in a sales role. She’d like to work with the transcription and translation of hardcopy data, especially paper materials, to digital images and digital objects for file transfer. She has much experience in this area and can discuss her various projects at all the places she’s worked. Please contact Hannah if you know of any employment in the Washington, D.C., area that would be a good fit for her skills and knowledge.
1995
1999–2000
1994
“Did I ever tell you that I have had recurring dreams about Reed for decades now?” writes Terri Perkins. “Mostly, I’m wandering around campus, trying to find something: my dorm room in Mac 3, the swingset overlooking the track, the river
First known use of “snark,” “clickbait,” and “hoarding disorder.” Can you use them all in a single sentence?
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As noted under 1978, Aaron Good is taking over leadership of Gallison Consulting from Dave Gallison ’78.
2002
Finding the silver lining in COVID-19, a group of Reed classmates along with their spouses and children met up digitally in April. Noah Rindos sent us a screenshot of the gathering, which included Peter Jordan ’03, Rachael Relph ’03, Sunny Daly ’03, Ethan Wilensky-Lanford ’03, Emily Johnson, Michael Knapp MALS ’09, Jonathan Murphy ’05, Drew Skillman, and a special guest!
is surely dead, but new Reedies are arguably more impressive than ever—zoomers in every sense of the word. By the way, if you haven’t paid attention to Alumni Programs—give them another look. They are doing great work and you’ll likely find something you’ll enjoy.” Thanks, Vasiliy, we think so, too.
2008
The United Nations declared this the International Year of the Potato. Was your celebration baked or fried?
2009
2003
Erin McCune just launched a startup to easily organize and preserve your digital legacy, Easeenet.com.
Ambalila Hemsell has published a new poetry collection. (See Reediana.) Lauren Raheja notes that she received a McGill Lawrence Internship Award to intern for Portland’s Center for Intercultural Organizing as a student at Reed (and during the summer between two semesters).
2004
2010
Misha Isaak has joined Perkins Coie’s commercial litigation practice as a partner in its Portland office. He previously was general counsel in Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s office; before that, he was an attorney with Perkins Coie. In Gov. Brown’s office, Misha managed all legal affairs and settled the state’s most significant litigation, including its dispute with Oracle.
2005–06
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster founded. R’amen!
2007
After an epic faculty job search that spanned all four corners of the USA, Loren Albert accepted a great tenuretrack faculty job offer from the biology department at West Virginia University. She’s looking forward to continuing her research on tropical forests and exploring the Appalachian Mountains. She will leave her current postdoc position at Brown University this summer to launch her lab at WVU in August. Loren looks forward to the day when she can share the whole crazy story with old friends over a drink in person, but until then dearly hopes that everyone is staying safe and sane during the pandemic. If you find yourself in the Mountain State, come say hello! Vasiliy Safin wrote to us in June: “For the past 2019–20 academic year, I had the pleasure of returning to Reed as a visiting assistant professor of psychology and experiencing the transition to online learning in all its clumsiness. Olde Reed
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Erin Corwin Westgate is one of a handful of scholars in the world who studies boredom and its surprising benefits. During the pandemic, she and one of her bored incoming doctoral students in psychology at the University of Florida came up with a survey to be sent to bored people, asking them how they were spending their time and why and when they chose to do certain activities. Their work was featured in a March 28 Washington Post article. “This is like one of those party game prompts,” Erin said in the article. “Like, ‘You’re stuck on a deserted island. What book do you read?’”
2011
Well? What book did you read?
2012
In May, Sean O’Grady graduated from Fordham University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Fordham Law Review. He will begin work as an associate at a large New York law firm in the fall and plans to clerk for a judge. Special thanks to fellow Reedie Ian Weinstein ’81, Sean’s first-year criminal law professor and law review note advisor. We’ve learned that Lila Seidman covers trending and breaking news for the Los Angeles Times. Over the years, she’s reported for a variety of publications, including the Daily Journal, a California legal publication, and the UB Post, an English-language newspaper in Mongolia; her work has also appeared in numerous other outlets, including L.A. Weekly, Gawker, and Vice.
2013
Melissa Lewis was the data reporter and part of a finalist team for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting “for its industrious reporting on worker injuries and the human toll of robotics technology at Amazon warehouses across the United States.” She was also awarded the Hillman Prize for Web Journalism with her reporting partner for their investigation into exploitation and abuse of caregivers in senior board and care homes across the United States. Melissa works for the Center for Investigative Reporting, which she notes that three other alumni have worked for: Matt Smith ’90, Scott Pham ’08, and Kendall Taggart ’09.
2014
Wasn’t Adele Dazeem great at the Oscars?
Erin Corwin Westgate ’10 studies the beguiling subject of boredom and its surprising benefits. 2015
Kaori Freda has started an exciting new job at Hearken leading operations and success, from a stint in corporate finance at Salesforce for three years. “Looking to connect with Reedies near & far—love Reed!” In December 2019, Stella Baker, Belle Aykroyd, and Sophia Dunn-Walker starred in Emmy-nominated director Jaclyn Bethany’s feature film Highway 1. The film is currently in postproduction and is scheduled to premiere in 2021.
2016
Another Reedie helps out during the pandemic: We read in April that Abrar Abidi spearheaded an effort to make hand sanitizer for at-risk populations—homeless persons, front-line health care workers, and people in shelters, care centers, and jails—throughout the Bay Area, using materials on hand in the UC Berkeley lab where he’s a grad student. As of April 13, Abrar and research assistant Yvonne Hao had mixed over 400 gallons of the stuff, and by May 14 nine more Berkeley labs and numerous volunteers had joined the effort.
2017–20
What comes next?
In Memoriam EDITED BY RANDALL BARTON Email bartonr@reed.edu
Blacklisted During McCarthy Era, Photojournalist Covered Turbulent ’60s Phiz Mezey ’48
May 10, 2020, in San Francisco, California.
Social justice, strong will, independent spirit, and curiosity drove Phiz’s remarkable career as a journalist, photographer, writer, and teacher. Born in Harlem, New York, she grew up in the Bronx. By her early teens, her interests in writing and photography were already developing. At the age of 16, she wrote for Irish Echo, an Irish American weekly newspaper. A few years later, during World War II, the Office of War Information hired her to write columns on labor and the Far East. She then came to Reed, studied with Prof. Lloyd Reynolds [art and English 1929– 69], and earned a bachelor’s degree in literature. After moving to San Francisco to pursue a career as a journalist, Phiz took an interest in Harry Bridges, the influential labor leader who was head of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which at the time was on strike. She landed a position teaching journalism at San Francisco State College (now SFSU). In 1950, she was dismissed after refusing to sign the loyalty oath required by the Levering Act, a law enacted by California requiring state employees to subscribe to an oath that specifically disavowed radical beliefs. Until the Levering Act was deemed unconstitutional, she and other faculty resisters were blacklisted for more than 15 years. During this period, Phiz turned to photography. “I discovered that as a freelance photographer, one could be her own boss,” she said. Having started out as a photo-essayist, she began to concentrate on portraits. Phiz was acclaimed for her portraits of prominent personalities like Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, and Jimi Hendrix, which appeared in Time, Collier’s, and other publications. In addition to portraits, she documented the changing landscapes of San Francisco and chronicled political events and conflicts. Wherever she went, she took her camera in hopes of capturing the moment. Her photos of the lengthy 1968–69 San Francisco State University student strike—in which protesters demanded more minority representation—were filled with action and detail, capturing police marching with clubs, strikers being beaten, and a demonstrator talking through a bullhorn. “I enjoy being on the outside looking in,” she said. “I love being on the inside, sharing the experience.”
Phiz Mezey photographed the civil rights demonstrations on San Francisco’s Auto Row in 1964.
Phiz earned an MA and a PhD from SFSU in 1971. In 1978, she was reinstated as faculty at SFSU in the educational technology department; she was promoted to full professor in 1981. She retired from teaching in 1990. A contributing editor of Darkroom Photography Magazine, she was also a photography instructor at San Francisco City College and a media specialist for the Sausalito Teacher Education Project. As a freelance journalist, she wrote for the Nation, the New Republic, the New York Times, and Aperture. Phiz authored three books, including Something That’s Happening (1968), about the desegregation of the Sausalito School District, which featured her photos and words by the schoolchildren. She received a San Francisco Foundation grant for one book and a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her photos, which she developed and printed, were exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, including the de Young Museum, SF MOMA, Focus Gallery, and New York’s Witkin and Danziger galleries. We Live Here, her final solo show at the San Francisco Public Library in 2013, focused on San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s. As a single mother raising two daughters, Phiz maintained her professional activities and love
of photography. She enjoyed backpacking in the Sierras, gardening, and caring for her deck full of succulents. In her 60s, she joined a masters swim team; she swam until her early 80s. She also did weekly walks (along with her beloved dog, Carina) with a group of politically minded old friends who called themselves the Fort Point Gang. In her last 11 years, she lived at the Carlisle, a retirement community, where she made many new friends, including the staff who cared for her lovingly. She is survived by her daughters, Rachel Mozesson and Judi Mozesson. Reed Magazine september 2020 33
In Memoriam
GOP Congressman Reached Across the Aisle Richard Hanna ’76
March 15, 2020, in Barneveld, New York, from cancer.
Richard served as a Republican U.S. Representative from New York from 2011 to 2017. He was, in the words of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “a leader of great integrity who always put patriotism and principles before politics.” Born in Utica, New York, and raised in nearby Marcy, Richard graduated from Whitesboro High School. When his father died, he took care of his mother and four sisters. But after failing for three years to revive the faltering trailer park his father had purchased, Richard was convinced there was a better way to make a living. Despite a spotty academic record, he applied at Reed. “I wasn’t a smart kid in terms of numbers,” he remembered, “but I told them, ‘I’m a thoughtful, responsible guy.’ They said, ‘You don’t belong here, but you’re welcome to come.’” He worked construction jobs to put himself through Reed, and wrote his thesis, “A Comparison of Public and Private Municipal Fire Protection,” advised by Prof. Kevin Kelly [economics 1974–76]. After graduation, he returned to upstate New York, part of the Rust Belt that had fallen on hard times. “I lived and breathed the steady decline of upstate New York,” he said, “but I’m one of those fortunate people who could stay where they liked. It was a risk, but I’d been broke before, and I wasn’t afraid of being broke.” He started a small contracting business; three years passed before he hired his first employee. Eventually Hanna Construction expanded into a major builder of schools and government buildings. As his structures rose, he became more deeply involved with the community. He became active in the United Way, local
hospital boards, Habitat for Humanity, and Annie’s Fund, a charity he founded to provide grants to impoverished women in Herkimer and Oneida counties. When he was 57 years old, he threw his hat in the ring for a U.S. House seat in New York’s sprawling 24th District and won. He was a proponent for government in the Republican tradition of solution-oriented fiscal realism with bipartisan support. In the 114th United States Congress (2015–17), Richard was ranked as the second most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Though he was a member of a caucus of conservative Republican representatives, he was no ideologue. He also belonged to the Republican Main Street Partnership, which sought change in the GOP platform regarding abortion and stem cell research, and was a member of the LGBT Equality Caucus, made up of members who—regardless of their sexual identity or orientation—were willing to advance LGBT rights.
He lamented that extremists in the GOP had drowned out moderates like himself. “They’ve become judgmental and sanctimonious and authoritarian on their approach to people,” he said. As a conservative, Richard voted to repeal health care reform and to support the Energy Tax Prevention Act, which would prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. But he also voted against cuts to NPR and Planned Parenthood. He was the first sitting Republican member of Congress—though he had already announced his pending retirement— to declare that he would vote for Hillary Clinton for president, calling Donald Trump a “national embarrassment.” “There’s nothing wrong with railing against wrongdoing or railing against things you’d like to change,” he said. “There’s value in that voice. You don’t have to have great success to have value in terms of outcomes. Progress comes on the margins—you make progress by settling things day to day.” In 2016, Richard announced he would retire from Congress to spend more time with his wife and young children, who were upset when he had to leave for Washington, D.C., at the start of each work week. “When all is said and done, if you haven’t raised your family well, you haven’t accomplished anything in life,” he said. “I’ve got good kids and a great wife, and they simply don’t want me to do this anymore.” “He worked across the aisle to get things done, and he really cared,” said Senator Chuck Schumer. “His focus was always on the people, never the politics. We need more of that in Congress.” Richard is survived by his wife, Kim; his son, Emerson; and his daughter, Grace.
Conservative Scholar Criticized Affirmative Action Abigail Mann Thernstrom ’58 April 10, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia, of multiple organ failure after lapsing into a coma.
A leading skeptic of affirmative action programs, Abigail supported civil rights, but concluded that color-blind policies worked better than preferential treatment for racial disparities in educational achievement, voting, and employment. Born in New York City, she grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, where her father, Ferdinand Mann, helped run a collective farm that was home to left-wing intellectuals, fellow travelers, and Holocaust refugees. Her mother, 34 Reed Magazine september 2020
Helen, was a Jewish émigrée from Germany who later returned to Europe and was active in the Bauhaus art movement. Escaping Nazism, Helen returned to New York and died when Abigail was a teenager. Abigail graduated from the Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village. She attended Reed before returning to New York, where she received a bachelor’s degree in European history from Barnard College. After beginning a master’s program in Middle Eastern studies at Harvard, she switched to constitutional law with an emphasis on civil
rights after meeting Stephan Thernstrom, an American history major, on a blind date. Two months later Stephan became her husband. He taught at UCLA and Harvard while Abigail raised their two children before completing her doctorate at Harvard in 1975 and beginning to teach there. Abigail said that the “message of racial injustice was extremely important to me.” She and her husband picketed Woolworth stores, protesting the chain’s exclusion of Blacks from lunch counters in the South. But she was a staunch opponent of affirmative action, gerrymandering to create minority districts,
and other measures to foster racial preferences. She put forth her arguments in her first book, Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights (1987), which analyzed the effects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Her contention was that a measure crafted to open the polling booths had become a powerful tool for affirmative action in the electoral sphere. “What began as an effort to give minorities a fair shake has become a means of ensuring a fair share,” she wrote. The book won the American Bar Association’s Certificate of Merit, the Anisfield-Wolf prize for the best book on race and ethnicity, and the Benchmark Book Award from the Center for Judicial Studies. A second book, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (1997), cowritten with her husband, Stephan, combined historical narrative, data-driven policy analysis, and vigorous social criticism to argue that racial preferences were no longer necessary. Granting that gaps in opportunity still remained, the book contended that creating majorityminority districts marginalized their impact on public policy and empowered white-dominated districts that outnumbered them. The Thernstroms argued that admitting students on the basis of racial preferences could stigmatize minority students and dilute the value of their diplomas. Abigail said they hoped to move the debate about race “off the grounds of anecdote and emoting and onto the grounds of objective reality and fact.” As champions of a colorblind society, the couple appeared on television and wrote essays for publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Princeton University historian Nell Irvin Painter said in an interview with the Globe that the Thernstroms “exemplify something one often finds among conservative academics, this view that, by virtue of being scholars, they think they know more about being black than black
people do. Now that’s not to say that someone of one race ought not to write about another race. But don’t tell me what I should think or feel about being black.” After Abigail’s death, Jason Riley, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board and an African American, acknowledged that Abigail had “put intellectual honesty ahead of political correctness.” She became the darling of neoconservatives, making public appearances and quoted in think-tank publications. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed her to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, which she chaired from 2010 to 2012. The Thernstroms also wrote No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2003). For more than a decade, Abigail was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. She is sur vived by her husband; her daughter, Melanie; and her son, Samuel.
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E. Louise Flechtner Brierton ’44 May 5, 2020, in Davidsville, Pennsylvania.
Born in Twin Falls, Idaho, Louise was the daughter of Gustav Flechtner, a concert violinist and orchestra conductor who taught at the Oregon City Conservatory of Music and was associated with the Portland Symphony. Due to his wife’s ill health, he relocated to Twin Falls and took a job as a music teacher and band leader at public schools in Twin Falls and Jerome, Idaho. To earn extra money, he played the violin at a silent movie theater in Jerome. Louise and her sister, Augusta, worked summers after high school in Sun Valley, Idaho. Louise represented Sun Valley and the state of Idaho at the 1939 Miss America Pageant, where she was voted fifth runner-up to Miss America. During the talent portion of the pageant, she played Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust on the clarinet her father had given her as a child. Louise attended Reed, but transferred to Stanford University, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in humanities and social sciences. She met her husband, Dr. John Brierton, at a football game and they were married in 1943. Shortly thereafter, John was assigned to duty as a chest surgeon in the naval hospital on Espiritu Santo Island in the New Hebrides near Australia. Louise reunited with her husband when he returned from the war with a depressed skull fracture. Until his death in 1966, they were never separated again. They raised four children in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where Louise worked in John’s medical office as a secretary and receptionist, while also working as a homemaker and mother. She served as the sole caregiver during John’s 10-year struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Louise is survived by her children, Louise Michaud ’78, Robert Brierton, and Ann Zellers.
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In Memoriam Patricia Prindiville Bostwick ’45 September 14, 2004, in Lincoln City, Oregon
Patricia was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and grew up in Kaimuki, spending many of her summers at Kamalo and Molokai. After graduating from Punahou High School, she attended Reed for two years and then the University of Hawaii. In 1952, she married Corky Bostwick; they had two children. She was a part-time real estate agent and an avid golfer and mah-jongg player. A resident of Honolulu, Patricia was a volunteer with the Friends of Iolani Palace and collected antiques and koa wood furniture. She is survived by her children, Prindi Flug and Charles Bostwick.
Frits Brevet ’50
January 10, 2020, in Oakland, California.
Having graduated from high school at the age of 16, Frits followed in the footsteps of his sister, Beepske Brevet Selhorst ’41, and started at Reed. His tiny room under the eaves in Winch was a great place for studying, but there was time for shenanigans, and interesting comrades were at hand. Among the lifelong friends Frits made at Reed, one best remembered was Sandy McDonald ’46, who was enchanted with the idea of living in the 18th century and led a troop of men in reliving the American Revolution. Sandy fashioned himself a faithful servant of King George III. His followers made wigs from brown paper bags that they painted white and rolled up on the front and sides. Sandy put tacks on the hammers of the piano in Winch so it would sound like a harpsichord and led his followers in songs of the British Grenadiers. The colonists would answer singing: “Oh democrat or republican or any mortal thing, be sure that ye give glory to FDR our gracious king. For if you prove rebellious, your thunder mightier than your ear, with an NRA and an AAA and a keg of New Deal beer.” Two years later, Frits left Reed to go into the U.S. Army. But after contracting rheumatic fever he returned to Reed. When he failed his junior quals, he transferred to UC Berkeley, where he got his bachelor’s degree in political science. Lamenting that perhaps he had enjoyed Reed too much, he acknowledged he had received a broader education at Reed than he might have gotten elsewhere. “It was an eye-opener to society,” he said. “[It] made me politically active, gave me different (more tolerant) views of the world, and a broad education so that I had some knowledge of many things. This helped me in regard to my business—to be a generalist.” After college, Frits went to work selling insurance at Penn Mutual Life, and then in 1975 went into business for himself selling fire, casualty, and life insurance. He retired in 1993 and continued to garden and do volunteer work, including raising money for the Oakland YMCA 36 Reed Magazine september 2020
David Robinson Jr. ’50 with sisters Jan Robinson Stevens ’44 (front) and Dorothy Robinson Freedman ’59.
and the East Bay Agency for Children, distributing food for the homeless every Sunday, and helping out at the Oakland Museum. His wife, Rita, predeceased him. He is survived by his daughters, Erica Brevet-Stott and Heidi Brevet.
David Robinson Jr. ’50
March 29, 2020, in McLean Virginia, of congestive heart failure.
David Robinson was a professor of law at George Washington University for nearly four decades and a former prosecutor who once argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a native of the Irvington neighborhood of Portland, and his father, also David Robinson, was a prominent public defender and organizational executive who served as assistant national director of the Anti-Defamation League during World War II. Following in the footsteps of his mother, Edna Shainwald Robinson ’18, and his sisters, Janice Robinson Stevens ’44 and Dorothy Robinson Freedman ’49, David chose to attend Reed because, as his sister Dorothy said, “If you wanted to play, you went to the University of Oregon. If you wanted to study, you went to Reed.” At Reed, David became best friends with Walter Mintz ’50, who later served for 33 years on Reed’s Board of Trustees. The two men, who remained close until Walter’s death in 2004, shared a Jewish background. They loved to chant: “Aleph, bet, gimmel, daled, Reed college boys are really solid! They play football, they play soccah, they keep matzah in their lockah!” Majoring in philosophy, David wrote his thesis, “A Study of C.L. Stevenson’s Ethical Writing,” with Prof. Ed Garlan [philosophy 1946–73]. Following graduation, he pursued a law degree at Columbia University and then moved back to Oregon to clerk for Justice Hall
S. Lusk on the Oregon Supreme Court. He then began a career as a criminal prosecutor, serving first in the district attorney’s office for Multnomah County, rising to the post of chief criminal deputy district attorney, and then as an assistant U.S. attorney in Portland. During this period, he met and married his first wife, Esther Hyatt Wender ’59. Deciding to pursue a career in teaching, David moved to Boston to become a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School. That led to a job as a professor at George Washington University Law School, where he taught criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence—a position he would hold for 38 years. He also served as a consultant to the National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws and was, for five years, a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1968, David appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court as the attorney for the state of Texas in the case Powell v. Texas. He successfully argued that chronic alcoholism is not a defense against public intoxication laws. Following David and Esther’s divorce in 1968, he remained a devoted father to their two children, Daniel and Sara, seeing them often and taking them for month-long summer trips to the beaches of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. One afternoon in the late ’60s, David chased after his dog into a conference room, where he found him in the lap of Lilien Filipovitch, a native of Yugoslavia and a professor of art history at GWU. David and Lilien married in 1974. In addition to a passion for dogs, David and Lilien shared an interest in the literature, art, politics, and culture of eastern Europe. Together, they led several study tours of the former Soviet Union, where David taught Soviet law and Lilien taught Russian history and art. David also loved to work with tools and
engaged in building projects. In the early 1990s, he and his son Dan built a substantial bridge across a creek running through the backyard of his McLean home. The bridge is still standing. David is survived by his wife, Lilien, his daughter, Sara, and his sister, Dorothy.
Bonnie Huddart Garlan ’57 November 19, 2019, in Portland, Oregon.
Bonnie was born in Bellingham, Washington, and graduated from Bellingham High School. She came to Reed with a footlocker and a violin. At freshman orientation, a young man asked, “Does anybody here play the violin?” When Bonnie said she did, he asked, “We’re trying to get a group together to play chamber music, are you interested?” “What is chamber music?” she replied. It was the beginning of her Reed education. She remembered that nearly half of the student body at the time were majoring in science. Bonnie wrote her thesis, “Whitehead’s Method of Extensive Abstraction,” advised by Professors Jean Delord [physics 1950–88] and Ed Garlan [philosophy 1946–73]. She attended the University of Göttingen on a Fulbright fellowship and earned her PhD in philosophy from Yale University. “I found that the Reed preparation and training in being able to read a text, being able to write articulately, and being curious, open to new ideas—this transferred no matter what the major,” she said of her graduate work. Bonnie worked as a research assistant in Douglas Engelbart’s Augmentation Research Center at SRI International in Palo Alto, California. In 1965, she returned to Reed, where she taught humanities and became the first director of the computer center. That year, she married Prof. Garlan. After leaving Reed, Bonnie taught book arts at the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts and worked as a professional assistant to Portland artist Carl Morris. She is survived by four stepchildren.
Rodney A. Shaw ’58
May 3, 2014 in Norwood, Colorado, following a fall.
A sculptor whose predominantly female figures revealed, in his words, “a sneaking fondness for calming beauty,” Rod worked in many media, but his favorite was terra-cotta.
He grew up near Chicago, Illinois, and graduated with a double major in art and sociology at Reed, where he met his wife of nearly 56 years, Frances Ann Swift ’61. The couple moved to Chicago, where Rodney earned an MFA in sculpture and then a PhD in art history and archeology from the University of Chicago. He was a college professor in Wisconsin and Puerto Rico and at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. In 1978, Rod quit teaching to pursue sculpture full time in Burnsville, North Carolina, where he built a lovely house with a big sculpture studio. Twenty years later, he built an equally lovely house and studio in Norwood. Rod and Ann loved singing in their church choir, and while serving on the music committee of their church in Burnsville, Rod raised the caliber of music to where the church choir was able to perform Handel’s Messiah and part of Brahms’s German Requiem. He was also interested in science and astronomy. He is survived by his wife, Ann, and his children, Enid and Edmund.
Chana Berniker Cox ’63 March 2, 2019, in Oregon.
Chana aspired to be a Renaissance woman, and her work and her life were intrinsically i n t e r d i s c i p l i n a r y. According to her son, author Richard Har vester, she was aware that her legacy “might be accompanied by her name, or it might simply work its way into the ideas of others. But it would ripple from her, changing the world she touched.” Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, Chana spoke Yiddish as her first language. Her father was a secular communist from a prestigious rabbinic family who owned a factory. Chana described her mother as a Jewish peasant—a prophet in her own way—who was visited by the recently deceased. More than anything else, the family prized intelligence. It was better than beauty, better than goodness; nothing mattered more. As communists, the family fled Detroit during the McCarthy era, eventually settling in Windsor, Ontario. In high school, Chana went on a speaking tour, saw a bit of North America, and when it came time to pick a college, chose one far away from Windsor. Reed’s approach to liberal arts appealed to her increasingly catholic interests. After earning a degree in mathematics, she went on to earn a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University. She was a scholar of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the 17th-century polymath often referred to as the last universal genius.
The man she would marry, Rodney Cox, had studied at Willamette University while Chana was a Reed, but they didn’t meet until they were both working on their PhDs at Columbia. “My mom taught at Columbia,” said Harvester. “But her path was not one of a simple narrow career choice. She wouldn’t specialize and then specialize some more. That wasn’t the kind of person she was, certainly not after meeting my father.” While they were still working on their doctorates, Chana and Rodney moved to Idaho, living in the Salmon River wilderness with his uncle, Sylvan Hart, one of the last mountain men in the western United States, who was known as Buckskin Bill. Chana wrote about this in her book A River Went Out of Eden (1992). “Life there was tough, extremely tough,” Harvester said. “As I’ve always seen it, they were trying to build their own world. They were two contrarian people, stepping back from a world that was changing at what seemed like breakneck speed; building something slower, and different, in the backwoods. My father brought the passion and my mother the intellect. Their time in Idaho came to a close with the great tragedy in the story of my family: the death of my eldest brother Jeremiah. He was killed in an accident and they left the same day.” After leaving Idaho, Chana organized explorations in the Canadian Arctic. Following some particularly lean times, she returned to academia. “She wasn’t on the tenure track,” Harvester explained. “She was already far too old for that. But she wasn’t the kind of person you fired either.” Chana became a senior lecturer at Lewis and Clark College in Portland. She taught the first-year course, Exploration and Discovery, as well as courses in intellectual history, political science, economics, and classics. In addition to teaching full time, she wrote plays and books, including a history of liberalism titled Liberty: God’s Gift to Humanity (2006); Reflections on the Logic of the Good (2007), a critique of Plato’s Republic; and the fictional thriller Inungilak (2013). She spoke about her desire to leave a legacy of ideas in her play Academic Overture. Another play, Pharaoh, King of Egypt, was produced in Portland as an interfaith effort by Augustana Lutheran Church and Lewis and Clark College. In addition to raising their own children, Chana and Rodney provided a home and parenting for dozens of troubled children through the years. Using their vision, they taught the children how to make a new reality by simple force of will. “They saw hope in people that those people did not see in themselves,” said one of the men raised by them. “If you want to honor my mother, don’t buy flowers,” wrote Harvester. “Buy or borrow one of her books, read it and build what you learn into your own understanding of the world. In Reed Magazine september 2020 37
In Memoriam that way she can be a Renaissance Woman whose legacy is ideas that will continue to trickle and flow through the world she has left behind.” Chana is survived by her children, Nechama, Isaian, Joseph (who writes as Richard Harvester), and Benjamin.
Millard (Pete) Petersky ’63 February 1, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Pete graduated from Garfield High School and then studied at the University of Washington, where he received bachelor’s degrees in both art and education. After earning his first degree, he married and then served in the military police at Camp Drum in Watertown, New York. On discharge, he and Ruth, his wife, traveled briefly to Europe before returning to Seattle, where Pete began a 33-year career in teaching and counseling at both Mercer Island and Bellevue High Schools. At the same time, Pete enjoyed a parallel career in art, working as an assistant to the curator at the Henry Art Gallery at UW and showing his abstract expressionist work in New York and at local galleries and exhibitions. At what he called “an excellent time in my life and career,” Pete came to Reed and earned an MA in teaching and behavioral sciences. He appreciated the intellectual atmosphere and said, “I received an excellent philosophical and theoretical base, and the next year went on to clinical training. I am continually working on ideas that I discovered at Reed. Reed encouraged me to want to learn.” Being with students and helping them achieve their best was Pete’s greatest wish. After retiring, he enjoyed more than 20 years participating in the UW Access program, where he and Ruth spent hours in student classes, listening and learning. He read three or four books at a time, and had a passion for music, theater, and ballet that led to years of volunteer service for cultural events. As an outdoorsman, he enjoyed camping, mushroom foraging, hiking, cycling, fishing, and cross-country skiing with his two children, Paul and Claire. For the last seven years, Pete was an independent resident of Merrill Gardens at the University, where he celebrated his 91st birthday and 68 years of marriage.
Keith Tracy ’64
April 8, 2019, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Keith was born in Sumpter, Oregon, and spent his childhood in St. Maries, Idaho. He joined the navy in 1942, served for four years, and upon discharge attended the University of Washington on the G.I. bill. It was there he met Joan Fries, the love of his life, who died a month before Keith. They would have celebrated their 70th anniversary on the day Keith 38 Reed Magazine september 2020
Matt Smith ’66
died. Keith taught high school in Reed Point, Montana; Castle Rock, Washington; and Forest Grove, Oregon. He earned a master’s degree at Reed while teaching high school English and helping to raise three daughters. In 1964, the family moved to Cheney, Washington, where Keith became an assistant professor of English at Eastern Washington University, retiring in 1987. He was not only interested in social justice, he practiced it. With his signature crew cut and wearing his trademark bow tie, he took his family to the first anti–Vietnam War march in Spokane. He looked out for those who lacked advantages, including some of his students at Eastern, and fully supported his wife and three daughters in their educational and career pursuits, well before it was common for men to do so. Keith enjoyed gardening, and though he traveled many places during his life, he appreciated the simple pleasures nearby. He is survived by his daughters, Megan Bastow, Jean Tracy, and Ana Johnston.
Philip H. Schwartz ’66
July 19, 2006, in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Phil wrote his thesis, “An Attempt to Therapeutically Modify a Child’s Behavior by Controlling Responses of the Mother,” advised by Prof. Carol Creedon [psychology 1957–91]. He became a highly respected teacher who enjoyed a spirited and intellectual debate and was always passionate about social justice and education. He is survived by his son, Bernard.
Matthew E. Smith ’66 May 19, 2019, in Olympia, Washington.
When Matt was growing up in Iowa, every summer his family drove across the country to Shelton, Washington, where his father had a seasonal job as a camp custodian. The trips brought the family closer, and Matt took to the Northwest woods. He returned to the Northwest to attend Reed, where Humanities 110 and 210—the Greeks and Romans, medieval Europe, Renaissance and Reformation— hooked him on “the genuine joy of doing hard intellectual work.” Majoring in political science, he undertook fieldwork on trade unions in England and wrote his thesis, “Union Democracy in Great Britain: An Investigation of the Politics of the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers,” advised by Prof. Kirk S. Thompson [political science 1964–71]. Years later, Thompson would be a colleague at the Evergreen State College. Matt also earned an MA in teaching from Reed and taught high school at Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, before going on to earn a PhD in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1973, he began a more than 40-year career on the faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, an alternative, public liberal arts college with a focus on interdisciplinary programming. Most of those years, Matt taught a form of classes that are distinctive to Evergreen: year-long, full-time, thematic studies led by one to three faculty colleagues from diverse backgrounds. In those early teaching teams, he steeped
himself in sociopolitical thought, in Weber, Arendt, and Marx. He went on to work in environmental studies, connecting his training in political economics to the questions of environmental stewardship, and learning from his teaching partners in geology, environmental policy, and botany. Those early years in the Northwest had seeded in Matt an environmental awareness, a sense of place, that he imparted to his students. Through ethnographic, geographic, community and cultural studies, he honed his grasp of social worlds. He taught one year on Northwest poetry and American literature. Though he jested that his work made him a jack-of-alltrades and master of none, in reality Matt’s work consistently explored vital, vexing questions about the relationships of people to the places they inhabit and their capacities to find meanings in these experiences. His work embodied the liberal arts ideals of breadth and integration. Matt also contributed extensively to the administration and philosophy of the evolving Evergreen experiment, serving as academic dean in the mid-’80s. During that time, he led the academic aspects of the college’s accreditation self-study, which articulated for the first time the educational commitments for an alternative institution previously self-identified only via negatives (no grades, no tenure, no departments, no requirements). A few years later, as the college grappled with how to assure the core of a liberal arts education in a curriculum without requirements, Matt was central to identifying outcomes for an Evergreen graduate. The language from those two projects guides the college in its aspirations to this day. “In seminar with his students, Matt seized the text, wrestled with it, illuminated it, and posed canny questions to students,” said Sam Schrager ’70, emeritus faculty at Evergreen. “Whether it was Carolyn Kizer’s poetry or postmodern theory, Matt was a superb reader. Students learned from him how to read with care. He was as intensely devoted to the practice of writing, to teaching students how to research and to craft arguments and narratives. Matt fused thinking and social practice and was highly respected for designing valuable field trip experiences.” He would have a group of five or six students conduct daylong “town studies” in which they asked people they happened to meet how they saw the past, present, and future of their place. As Matt put it, students discovered that when they open up to a place, the place opens up to them. “Overall,” said Sam, “Matt had a spectacular sense of program design; how to craft a learning community around a set of meaningful, often vexing questions. When the program was actually unrolling from day to day, he had the ability to size up the potential of all kinds of situations
and offer teaching strategies suited to the moment. The inquiry was always open, and in some ways risky. Over time, it would build a strong sense of community among students, and they would invest much of themselves in it.” After retiring, Matt went to Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a network of ancient pilgrim routes that stretches across Europe, which he found exhilarating. Matt is survived by his three sons, Jason Eliot Smith ’93, Eamon Smith, and Paul Smith, and by his brother, Christopher Anthon.
Pat Ingham ’69
April 10, 2020, in Tallahassee, Florida, from Alzheimer’s.
Pat was born in Oakland, California, to David Laurie McGregor from Scotland and Lillian Nickel of Fargo, North Dakota. She had her mother’s auburn hair and her father’s gutsy “try-anything” nature. After graduating from Gresham High School, she went on to the University of Oregon, where she met and married Charles Dwigans. They had two children, Donna and Robert. After Pat and Charles divorced, she learned to drive and later to fly gliders. She went from being a full-time mother and seamstress to being a junior high school teacher. To better support her children, she came to Reed and earned a master’s in psychology with a second emphasis in ancient history. With the lift of an eyebrow, Pat could quiet a room of rambunctious seventh graders. “I was often exhausted,” she said of her years as a teacher, “but never bored. All children would rather grow up to be chimpanzees, but the job of adults is to civilize them sufficiently that they could enjoy tea with the Queen of England.” One of her favorite geography lessons was making pizza in the shape of Italy with her students. “Once you have eaten Italy,” she said, “you’ll never forget how to find it on a map.” An accomplished artist, Pat painted oil portraits and made kiln-fired enamel jewelry using techniques developed by early Egyptians. These were showcased at various galleries, and she was a member of the Northwest Chapter of the Florida Society of Goldsmiths, the Tallahassee Watercolor Society, and the Tallahassee Polymer Clay Art Guild. When something broke, her preschool grandson would say, “It’s okay, Grandma Pat can just make another one out of polymer clay.” She married Erland Jenson in 1978, and when she retired from teaching in Canby, Oregon, they moved to Crawfordville, Florida. “I was born to be retired,” she said, taking up computer design embroidery and other art forms. When Erland died in 2003, Pat thought the best part of her life was over. Determined to make new friends among the other ladies at the Tallahassee Senior Center, she was surprised when Kenneth Ingham Jr. held a chair for her at the Valentine’s Day function. They had two weddings, one at the
home of Ken’s daughter and the second at Lake Talquin Park, where Pat wore her trademark blue jeans and pearls. At the age of 75, she realized she had finally found her best friend. These, she declared, were the happiest years of her life. She died at home with Kenneth holding her hand and her daughter Donna nearby.
Margaret A. Kitchell ’70 March 23, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.
Margaret was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and as a teenager moved to Manhattan, Kansas. She attended Carleton College in Minnesota for two years and then transferred to Reed, where she majored in philosophy and wrote her thesis, “Knowledge of Personal Identity.” She went on to pursue a degree in medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, where she participated in efforts against lead poisoning with the Medical Committee for Human Rights. After a medical internship at Rush University Medical Hospital in Chicago, she settled in Seattle and did her psychiatry residency at the University of Washington. For many years, Margaret practiced in general and geriatric psychiatry, both as a private practitioner and for Group Health, Seattle Mental Health, and Harborview Medical Center. Margaret joined the PRAG House, a housing cooperative, where she met friends and built a support group that lasted more than 40 years. She became a “groupie” for the activist band Shelly and the Crustaceans, where she met Jack Buchans. They married in 1980, had two children, Julia and Alexander, and joined Plymouth Church. Jack died in 2012. A passionate and vocal advocate for climate, health, and public transit, Margaret took pride in having marched against the World Trade Organization during its Seattle convention. She was actively involved with People’s Memorial Association, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, Feet First, Transportation Choices Coalition, and Climate Solutions, and was a Clean Air Ambassador for Earthjustice and an educator for Our Whole Lives. Margaret met a new partner, Kim Waggie, in 2014, and the two shared a love of the outdoors, reading, travel, and music. They taught religious education at the University Unitarian Church, where Margaret sang in the intergenerational choir. The couple moved to Ballard and were often seen on their daily walks with their dog. Margaret loved being in nature, whether camping, hiking, or snowshoeing, and was an enthusiastic participant on her local soccer team. She is survived by her partner, Kim Waggie, her daughter, Julia Buchans, and her son, Alex Buchans. Reed Magazine september 2020 39
In Memoriam Walter Satterthwait ’70
February 26, 2020, in Poulsbo, Washington, from congestive heart failure.
Walter wrote mysteries filled with complex and colorful characters, including an imaginative use of historical figures like Lizzie Borden and Oscar Wilde as detectives. One of only eight Americans to win France’s Prix de Romans d’Aventures, the insight and empathy that informed his work was also evident in the extraordinary gift he had for forming and maintaining deep friendships wherever he went. Born in Philadelphia, he demonstrated an early love of books, especially mysteries. But Walter didn’t just read, he also wrote, and his high school teacher encouraged him to keep at it. His patrician good looks and elegant style may have suggested family money, but he attended Reed on a scholarship. On campus, he quickly earned the appellation “Cool Walt,” and as Jeanie Daigle Smith ’70 remembered, he was cool “in the hip, savvy, unflappable sense of the word.” Walter didn’t settle in at Reed—or anywhere else, for that matter. He had a stint selling encyclopedias in Buffalo, and an extended stay with his brother Mark in Greece. When Walter returned to Portland, Yiorgos Chouliaras ’75 introduced him to Lelli Rallis, a friend from Greece, and Walter ended up marrying her. They weren’t together long, but remained close, and Walter visited whenever he got to Greece, where Lelli had settled. The story picks up again in New York City, where Walter was tending bar at the hip hangout One Fifth and met a woman who let him borrow her house in Connecticut, where he set about completing his first book. The woman, like most people he connected with, became a lifelong friend. By the time he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Walter had published two novels. He 40 Reed Magazine september 2020
was tending bar and fell in love with Caroline Gordon, a bartender who worked across the street. They held their wedding on the street between the two bars, and a mob of wellwishers diverted traffic for the celebration. In New Mexico, Walter began writing the series for which he is best known, featuring Joshua Croft as his detective. The first novel in the series, Wall of Glass (1988), was set in Santa Fe and written in the hard-boiled mystery tradition (“In any other American city this size, the road would have been paved. But in Santa Fe, raw earth is as chic as raw fish”). Receiving critical acclaim, the series became something of a cult hit with a devoted fan following. Nonetheless, as a writer Walter rarely made enough money to support himself for long. He would return to bartending until he got his next book advance, and then stretch it by working in someplace cheap but beautiful, including exotic locales such as Greece, Kenya, Thailand, and Grenada. He traveled often to England, France, and Germany to attend mystery conventions and visit friends. When a German fan wrote to ask him to autograph a book, their friendship grew via email and phone, and he ended up making two extended visits to the home she and her husband owned in Curaçao, in the Caribbean. She later noted that Walter was the only man she knew who cleaned a fish in a white shirt, which, together with his cowboy boots, was his signature style statement. Wherever Walter went, he built new friendships and strengthened old ones. When a young woman approached him at a mystery conference and announced that she was the daughter he never knew he had, he immediately embraced fatherhood and made Jennifer an important part of his life. The late mystery writer Sarah Caudwell, also a lifelong friend, wryly described those years in an introduction to one of his books: The usual address is Poste Restante though seldom for long in the same city or continent. Noting the latest change in overworked address-books, friends of Walter Satterthwait tend to think of him as not merely a man on the move but on the run, keeping, only by constant vigilance and amazing agility, one step ahead of pursuit. By whom or what—disappointed creditors? chagrined lovers? or merely hostile weather conditions? We are never sure; but we imagine him always as departing suddenly from places, in the early hours of the morning, without luggage save for his faithful word processor.
In a 1999 article for the St. Petersburg Times, Jean Heller reported on the time Walter travelled from London to Greece via Paris and Milan so he could lunch with his publishers, who would pick up the tab. “When I added up
the transportation and hotel costs, I figured out those two free lunches cost me $1,275,” he told her. “But when it comes to free lunches, money is no object.” Altogether, Walter published 15 novels and three short-story collections, and was working on a final book the year he died. Miss Lizzie (1989), featuring Lizzie Borden, broke ground as the first modern mystery to feature a character from history as the detective. He brought Lizzie back for a 2016 sequel that included Dorothy Parker as a sidekick. (“‘Brave?’ Mrs. Parker laughed, sounding somewhat frayed. ‘My sphincter was plucking buttons off the car seat.’”). He also wrote three of what were dubbed the Pinkerton mysteries, in which Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein appeared as characters. When his publisher was unable to fund a book tour for the second Pinkerton mystery, Masquerade (1998), Walter launched what he self-deprecatingly called the Trailer Trash Tour. He set the book-signing appearances himself and decorated the exterior of his Winnebago with a five-foot-high copy of the book’s cover. Inside, the motor-home was tricked out with a black and gold interior, fake leopard-skin accents, and a pair of red, fuzzy dice that lit up when plugged into the cigarette lighter. “I’m not a big believer in writers promoting themselves,” he said, “but I decided blatant self-promotion is okay if it’s low-key, tasteful, and elegant.” Wilde West (1991), in which Oscar Wilde investigates a murder while touring the American West, was Walter’s favorite among his books. Like Wilde, Walter had a quick, biting wit and could conjure up a pithy aphorism at a moment’s notice. (“The road to hell is paved with good inventions.”) In his final days, when most of his other faculties were deserting him, Walter could still craft a bon mot on the spot. He was a passionate Zen Buddhist, and— describing the influence Buddhism had played in his life—told a reporter, “I’m a kinder person, a kinder egomaniac.” While living with his sister, Anne, near Tampa, Florida, Walter fashioned a makeshift temple in a nearby suburban home and eventually moved in to act as “steward” to the resident monk. Walter was living in a Poulsbo nursing home when he learned he was dying. He had a “small satori,” or sudden enlightenment, that allowed him to accept his death with calm and grace. Ron Hinckley ’69 visited him shortly before his death, and pushed him in his wheelchair to a nearby bistro. Despite having hardly touched his institutional meals, Walter happily downed oysters with bacon and a single malt scotch. He never lost his appreciation for the good things in life. Attached to an oxygen tank and in considerable pain, he discussed end-of-life plans on the day before he died, expressing his
desire not to be ushered out too quickly, lest he “miss the rest of the party.” Remembrances of his friends, a complete bibliography, and an excerpt from his last, unfinished, book can be found at waltersatterthwait.net. —JILL COLLINS HINCKLEY ’70
Lawrence Witt ’70
March 13, 2020, in Eugene, Oregon, after a lengthy illness.
Larry was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri. His father’s career in the U.S. Army Air Corps took the family to the Gulf Coast, London, England, Washington, D.C., and Panama. As part of a Rotary Youth E xchange pro g ram, Larry spent a year in Piedras Negras, Mexico, and finished high school in San Antonio, Texas. When he aced the College Board and National Merit Scholarship tests, a teacher guided him to Reed. A single parent when he started at Reed, Larry met his future wife when he took lodging—and found babysitting services— in the home of Marie Rering ’69 and family. Larry and Marie married at Cape Perpetua State Park in 1972. “There is still a legend about the hippie wedding and the champagne,” Larry wrote in Marie’s obituary. “I once had a VW bus, wore tie-dyed shirts, had long hair and all that stuff. I lived in a commune for a while, then moved out to the woods with Marie.” He drove a logging truck for more than a year and quit after jumping from a truck that was about to roll down a hill. He earned a master’s degree at the University of Oregon, where Marie was working on her doctorate in psychology. They spent the next 10 years traveling and studying at centers of learning. She completed an internship in Houston. He finished medical school at the University of Texas at San Antonio while working as a data analyst for the National Institute of Mental Health. Remembering the work he had done as a volunteer at the White Bird Clinic in Eugene, Oregon, Larry chose family practice as his medical field. After three years of residency at Stockton Family Practice in California, the Witts spent three months traveling around the country in a motor home, deciding where to settle. Knowing they wanted to live by the ocean, they eventually decided on Brookings, Oregon, where he took a family practice position and Marie opened a mental health practice. They traveled often with their children with the philosophy that money spent on travel and educational experiences for their young sons was more important than saving for retirement. Larry coached basketball and chaperoned
school trips. He supported scholastic activities, from the Montessori School to funding prizes for high school academic competitions. In the ’90s, the Witts purchased a house in Ashland to save on costs for their sons and others attending Southern Oregon University. In the course of 15 years, the house became home to more than 50 residents, 14 of whom graduated from SOU. That included Larry, who earned a degree in history. In 1989, Larry and Marie opened their own practice in Harbor, where they collaborated and consulted daily for 25 years. “It was glorious having a loved one to argue with regularly,” Larry recalled. After closing down the practice, Larry ran an employee health clinic for Intel, worked in the Veterans Administration hospital system, and consulted on legal cases with his lifelong high school friend, Joe Blanks. After Marie died in 2017, Larry moved to Junction City. He is survived by domestic partner and long-time friend Kathleen Kosche, his daughter Pamela, his sons, Larry Jr., Christopher, and Matthew, and his sister, Cornelia Mydlowsk.
Stephen Nugent ’72
November 13, 2018, in London, England.
Celebrated for his work in Amazonia, in many ways Stephen defied quantification as an anthropologist. Combining materialism and scientific quantification, he saw anthropology as the best approach for analyzing world-systems even as he was critical of it for creating an industry that commercialized culture. At Reed, S tephen wro te his thesis , “Damaged Goods,” with Prof. Gail Kelly [anthropology 1960-2000] and met his future wife, June Wyer ’73. He went to the London School of Economics for postgraduate studies. With June, who was also studying for a PhD, he settled for fieldwork in the city of Santarém on the main trunk of the Amazon River in Brazil, then under military dictatorship. For an anthropologist interested in the Amazon, it was an unusual place to study because it was undergoing a series of modernization projects, including the building of a road that connected the city with central Brazil and the construction of a large Caribbean-style hotel. Seeing beyond these, Stephen developed an appreciation for the history of this riverine city, the commercial hub for a forested region once governed by Amerind chiefs. It was a place of ancestral mummies and continental connections. Stephen and June gave voice to the people who made their living in the
city and the neighboring rural districts from fishing, domestic, and retail work. The involvement of these people in a capitalist network, commanded by state incentives and private finance, set the scale of Stephen’s ethnographic gaze to a much wider set of considerations. He joined the anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 1981 and twice took on the role of head of department. From the early ’90s, he also taught at the Institute of Latin American Studies in London. Stephen’s theoretical work often drew on his early Amazonian experience, and he returned to the Amazon frequently until 2002, when his doctors advised him not to travel following a serious illness. Drawing on his vast knowledge, he wrote four books. The first, written for a popular audience, was Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks (1990), which follows a summer spent along the Amazon River, each place or encounter a spur for a revision of established thinking. Amazonian Caboclo Society (1993) provided a systematic, theoretical frame for understanding diverse societies, in this case the Brazilian Amazon, cutting across place and time. Scoping the Amazon (2007) was a historical critique of the visual representations of indigenous Amazonians in both popular culture and academic work. His last book, published the year before he died, was The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry (2017). Illustrated with contemporary images, advertisements, and maps collected from various archives, it is the kind of patient historical anthropology that is born from a life’s engagement with the subject matter. Stephen felt that anthropology needed to reassess its object of analysis and its status. It was pointless referring to entities that existed only as idealized notions. He joined an influential group of anthropologists in London who formed a journal entitled Critique of Anthropology. Refusing to follow convention, he forged a personalized technique of analysis in his incisive and critical interventions in peasant studies and political economy, Brazilian anthropology, historical anthropology, ethics, environmental anthropology, cognitive psychology, cultural studies, and visual anthropology. At Goldsmiths, Stephen set up the MA in visual anthropology, the BA in anthropology and visual practice, and also founded and directed the Centre for Visual Anthropology. His interest in the visual was both theoretical and practical and in the last decade of his time at Goldsmiths he made three films: Where is the Rabbi? (2001), about Sephardic communities living in Amazonia; Waila (2009), focused on a Tohono O’odham musician from Tucson, Arizona; and Sounds Like a Vintage Guitar (2012), an exploration of the business and craft of making and faking historical electric guitars. Reed Magazine september 2020 41
In Memoriam After more than 30 years, Stephen retired from Goldsmiths. His contributions to anthropology were wide-ranging, and he had a keen interest in music. Marrying these two interests, he and Charlie Gillette put together a compendium of the Top 20 British and American singles and albums of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, titled Rock Almanac (1978). He also collaborated with musician Ian Dury and wrote the song “Billericay Dickie.” He was as accomplished on the tennis court as in the halls of academia. Stephen is survived by his wife, June Wyer, and his daughter, Zoe Nugent.
Judith Nan Lidovitch Emerson ’73
March 6, 2020, in Portland, Oregon, of a myeloid sarcoma.
Born in Syracuse, New York, Judy grew up in Federal Way, Washington, and was, according to her mother, “an amiable child.” In high school, Judy organized and led a sizable “Save Our Schools” march after a local levy failed. She tutored minority students in math in South Seattle, headed the Student Handbook committee, and was senior class secretary on the student council. She earned the Phi Beta Kappa award and the Lions Club Scholarship and graduated third among 600 graduates, to her relief because the first two had to give speeches. In the summer, she picked blueberries to save money for college. At Reed, Judy began making new friends, including her future husband, Jim, whom she married in 1971. In addition to carrying a considerable academic load, she was a teaching assistant and librarian in the physics library during her junior and senior years. Fencing was her sport; what she lacked in height she made up for in lightning-fast movement. Advised by Prof. Jean Delord [physics 1950– 88], she wrote her thesis, “Is Physics a Scientific Enterprise?” It was a controversial topic, detailing examples of social, political, and habitual ways of thinking which affected not only the funding, publication, reception, and application of physics discoveries, but also the nature of the science itself in the preconceptions and research decisions of the scientists. Her defense drew a large crowd from several departments of the college. Before marrying, Judy and Jim had agreed that he would work to pay for her to finish Reed, and then she would work while he finished at the University of Oregon School of Architecture, which did not yet have a Portland branch. They moved to Springfield, where she worked for three years as a medical 42 Reed Magazine september 2020
clerk in the state welfare office. Judy said this was one of the most satisfying times in her life, surrounded by caring and hardworking coworkers with a critical mission. Her contacts with clients and doctors deeply informed her understanding of the challenges faced by people without adequate money. She and Jim moved back to Portland, and both got jobs in Oregon’s early high-tech sector. Judy worked at Electro-Scientific Industries programming computer-driven robotic manufacturing tools, testing prototypes, and troubleshooting problems. She excelled at her work and enjoyed the intellectual challenge of it, yet found the constant time pressure exhausting. When the couple were approved for an adoption in 1978, she quit her job, asking, “Why should I wear myself down to the nub to earn money, just to pay someone else to raise my child?” They sponsored a Vietnamese refugee family, learning much and making lifelong friends, adopted a second child, and purchased six acres of cut-over woods, invasive blackberries, and marshland in northwest Multnomah County. The place looked unpromising, but was affordable and had three streams, wildlife, garden and orchard space, and quietness. They designed their house, and Judy enjoyed the rest of her life there. Doing all the chores of motherhood, Judy also planned, researched, and planted 95 heirloom varieties of apple trees, which she grafted onto semidwarf rootstock. They became a steady source of fruit and homemade cider and were also the source of scionwood for her new venture, a small nursery specializing in rare apples and unusual landscape plants. When she turned 50, Judy began making pottery. After taking courses at community college, she set up a studio at home and spent many hours at the wheel, mixing glazes, and monitoring the kiln. Using her science background, she became adept at compounding glazes of many colors; “Judith’s Opal” became a standard at the college. Her favorite mode of travel was “shunpiking,” taking little-used rural roads, or minor streets in cities, to discover the unexpected, the underappreciated, the uncrowded, and often the unpaved parts of our world. Judith endured years of suffering and treatments after being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2001. Classical and folk music, flowers, cats, Laurel and Hardy comedies, and Chinese food helped sustain her. In 2017, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. The resulting hospitalizations and chemotherapy treatments sapped her of energy, comfort, and health, but never of hope. The sarcoma was the final blow, taking her within a few days. Judy is survived by her husband, Jim, her sons, David and Benjamin, and her sisters, Cheryl and Miriam.
David Frederick Coury ’78 January 1, 2020, in San Rafael, California.
The son of a first-generation Lebanese immigrant, David grew up in Chappaqua, New York, where he attended Horace Greeley High School. Transitioning to Reed was difficult, as he was not prepared for the academics, monastic life, and Portland weather. Nonetheless, he appreciated his six and a half years at Reed, where he wrote his thesis, “Public Policy Analysis and Oregon Land Use Planning: A Prelimi n a r y S t ud y,” ad v i s e d by P ro f. Pe te r Steinberger [political science 1977–]. David went on to get a master’s degree in urban planning from Harvard and then worked as a transportation planner in Los Angeles. He earned an MBA at Yale University and worked as a financial manager for a corporation, which he did not enjoy. When his brother died, David moved back to New York to take over the family rug business. In 1996, he settled in Marin County, where, as executive director of the Marin County Continuum of Housing and Services and later as an independent housing advocate, David became a fervent advocate for fair and affordable housing. He felt a particular calling for helping with homelessness in his community, and for finding housing for people with developmental disabilities. David served as vice president of the board of Environment Forum, was a founding member of the Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative, served as housing chair of the Action Coalition for Equity, was on the boards of the Marin chapter of the ACLU of Northern California and Brilliant Corners, a housing advocacy group, and was awarded Volunteer of the Year with the Marin Conservation League.
Lisa Klevit-Ziegler ’79
March 15, 2020, in Lahr, Germany, from metastatic breast cancer.
A Portland native, Lisa was a lovely bundle of talent, wit, and intelligence. She had a profound and abiding love for beauty, both as it exists in nature and is expressed in the arts. In 1975, she entered Reed—where her sister Rachel Klevit ’78 was already a student—with the intention of pursuing a career in art. At that time, Reed offered a five-year program jointly with the Portland Art Museum for art majors to graduate with a master’s degree. From an early age, Lisa played clarinet and while in high school was a member of the Portland Junior Symphony (now the Oregon Youth Orchestra), which she continued while attending Reed. She and fellow student and pianist Neal Goren ’79 performed a concert in Commons. Lisa was awarded a scholarship to attend the Aspen Music Festival and School, where she studied under the renowned pedagogue Leon Russianoff. The experience inspired her to change plans, and she transferred to the Brooklyn School of Music in New York to continue her lessons with Russianoff. A year later, she was accepted at the Juilliard School, from which she earned both a BM and an MM. Lisa was granted a Fulbright Fellowship to study historical clarinets (e.g., chalumeau, basset horn) and performance in Switzerland, which she did for two years after graduating from Juilliard. Because the cultural climate for period instruments is much stronger in Europe than the United States, and because she married a German-national French horn player and had two children, Lisa remained in Germany for her nearly 40-year professional career as a musician. Performing often and nearly exclusively on period instruments, she traveled frequently and widely and played on at least 50 recordings. (She has been credited variously as Lisa Klevit, Klewitt, Klevitt, Klevit-Ziegler, and so on. The lack of consistency was likely due, in part, to Lisa’s disdain for self-promotion—a quality perhaps more charming than advantageous.) Lisa also taught private lessons and at the music school in Lahr, on the western edge of the Black Forest in Germany, where she lived at the time of her death.
Her work as a musician did not lessen her interest in the visual arts. She was a talented photographer, which she turned into a minor side business creating greeting cards. Lisa would seek out the art museums or galleries in any venue to which she traveled; her stamina was legendary, and she was without equal in amortizing the cost of entry to a museum. Eight days before she died and unable to walk on her own, she traveled 30 miles to a Freiburg gallery to see a friend’s art show. Her attendants were exhausted; Lisa was energized. Lisa’s ashes are buried under a small stone near “her” tree in a grove in the Black Forest. She is survived by her two children, Jonathan and Rebekka; her three siblings, Rachel Klevit ‘78, Sarah Klevit-Hopkins, and Benjamin; and her mother, Jody.
Susan Danley Ruecker ’82
February 29, 2020, in Portland, of colon cancer.
Susan was an artist, pianist, dancer, healer, software engineer, and world-class troubleshooter. Her programs are still helping airplanes fly and corporations run flawlessly. Until the very end, she live d her life in accord ance w ith her principles. After studying music at Reed, Susan worked for a time as an application engineer at Adidas. She was an enthusiastic student of energy medicine—including pranic healing and energy healing—and as a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner and a Healing Touch for Animals Practitioner, used it to help people and animals of all kinds. Diagnosed with colon cancer in 2017, Susan was determined to heal from it on her own terms. She embarked on a path to let her body heal itself in lieu of the radiation and chemo that doctors recommended. It was hard to deal with a colostomy and the pain and inconvenience of this brutal disease, but through it all she never complained. Continuing to dance at her Zumba classes and to practice healing touch on others, she was able to lead a nearly normal lifestyle until the very end. Though she had no children of her own, Susan was grandmother to the children of her husband’s two sons. She is survived by her husband, Bill Ruecker, her sister, Karen Benson, and her mother, Elinor.
Michaella Mintcheff ’87 December 2016, in Kauai, Hawaii.
Born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria, Michaella came to the United States and majored in Russian at Reed. Advised by Prof. Lena Lencek [Russian 1977–], she wrote her thesis, “On Meaning and Translation: A Theory and its
Application to the Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita.” After getting a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Lewis & Clark College, Michaella worked as a caseworker and interpreter at the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and then moved to Hawaii, where she worked as a mental health therapist. She volunteered with the Garden Island Arts Council Poetry Fests, leading poetry interest and writing groups within the community, and published a book of poetry, The Gift of Hunger. Michaella founded Chiron Arts Productions, which produced education and performance events, including collaborations between artists and healing practitioners, and writing, dancing, and healing workshops on the island of Kauai. She also co-founded KAMA (Kauai Association of Movement Arts), which promoted nontraditional movement arts.
Hannah Mead ’20
May 29, 2020, in Portland, Oregon.
Born in Portland, Hannah was raised in Beaverton where she graduated as valedictorian of the Health & Science School. She was a science and math major and wrote her thesis, “Untangling Tech and Timbre: Assumptions Make Algorithms,” which explored sound, faith, and justice through the lens of computing. Her adviser was Prof. Eric Roberts. Hannah was a talented musician who loved to play guitar, an accomplished visual artist, and a passionate advocate for social justice. She was working at Coding with Kids, where she loved educating children in computer coding. Survivors include her mother, Victoria Oakes Mead; her father, Jim Mead; her two brothers, William Nelson Mead and Troy Joseph Mead; her stepmother, Eve Konopnicki; and her two stepsisters, Gwendolyn and Vivian Brasher.
pending Lee Q. Charette ’39, Adrienne Jacobson ’46, Wallace Joseph Smith ’48, Richard Grillo ’54, Richard Grillo BA-X ’54, Thomas Bransten ’58, Mary E. Flores ’59, Mark Gabor ’60, J. Victor Samuels ’64, Elizabeth Coates ’66, Ann C. Faricy Graham ’68, Fred Rigby ’70, John D. Hewitt ’73, Carol Lynn Brassey ’74, Lorne Craner ’82, John Doyle ’90, Benjamin Franklin Martin III ’99, Jay Collins ’15, Ciara Collins ’17
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Object of Study
What we’re looking at in class
Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?* A drummer strikes the snare. Its surface oscillates, rapidly causing waves of pressure to move through the air. When these reach you, sitting in the audience or on the dance floor, your eardrum responds. The frequencies present in the wave, combined with their individual amplitudes, determine what you hear. Can you hear the shape of that drum? The image above demonstrates the pattern of oscillation (called a normal mode) of a vibrating drumhead stretched over a circular boundary, a phenomenon students examine in Physics 201, Oscillations and Waves, with
Prof. Joel Franklin. The colors represent the height of the drumhead above or below its resting height when excited by a musician’s sticks or brushes. Each normal mode is associated with a distinct frequency. Drummers excite multiple frequencies, multiple normal modes, when they play. Later on, in Physics 342, Quantum Mechanics I, students learn that images like this can be used to indicate the likely location of a particle confined to a circular domain. In this case, the color refers to the probability of finding the particle in a particular spatial region, and
the normal mode’s single frequency becomes the particle’s energy. Physics is characterized, in part, by mathematical economy. The question posed in the title provides a relation between the two problems. If you could determine, from the frequencies present in the rhythmic cadence of your favorite song, whether a drum was round or square, then you could also determine the shape of the confined space in which a particle was free to roam quantum mechanically.
*Title of an article by Mark Kac, American Mathematical Monthly, 74 (4, part 2): 16, April 1966.)
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In times of crisis,our strengths come into sharp focus. Thank you.
Adaptable
Steadfast
Reed’s Computing & Information Services staff helped faculty reimagine the format of their course offerings and move approximately 400 classes online, providing guidance on accessibility, live class sessions, and recording, editing, and sharing lectures.
Faculty investigated the content of palladium in road dirt, studied the neurological basis of alcohol euphoria, conducted in-depth research on the history of American mosques, and much more.
The Center for Teaching and Learning orchestrated peer-to-peer sharing of best practices for online instruction.
Number of graduating seniors: 314
“N-Body Simulation of Cosmological Structure” by Beckett Cummings ’20 “Ghost Stories: Discovering and Disintegrating Homespace” by Jacey De La Torre ’20
The Center for Life Beyond Reed reached more than 200 students through online appointments and virtual drop-in sessions and connected the entire class of 2020 to the Reed alumni network. Forty-one summer internship awards were reconfigured to support remote experiences.
Health and counseling services responded to increased need related to COVID-19 and introduced telehealth appointments. Ninety-six staff volunteers contacted 1,064 students through the Student Outreach Initiative. Fifty-five students were connected with the Reed Care Team for specialized support, and 86 students were connected with other campus resources.
“Civilized Beings and the Idea of Social Citizenship” by Mayaki Kimba ’20
Fifty-five percent of students received financial aid in 2019–20, with an average grant of $36,927. In total, Reed administered $29,393,734 in scholarships.
There were 254 events during the fall semester, including a summer research poster session, Reed Arts Week, and a plethora of lectures, workshops, and performances.
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KEEP ON TRUCKIN’. Amaan Mohiuddin, who coordinates the tutor program, and Jess Kelly, assistant director of financial aid, sanitize hand trucks for new students arriving on campus in August 2020.