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In October, the UO launches an endowment campaign and appeals to alumni to help establish “the habit of making gifts to the university.” Indicates UOAA Member
1960s ELDON ALBERTSON, BS ’61 (education), is writing an autobiography and family histories after traveling to China in 2017 and 2018.
Kim volunteers with Get On the Bus, which brings children of incarcerated individuals to visit their parents in prison on Father’s and Mother’s day
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ayeon Kim believes there is benefit to society in reducing the prison terms of people of color and others victimized by excessive sentences and systemic racism. And she is dedicated to this work. Kim is finishing up her law degree at City University of New York (CUNY) in 2022, which puts her one step closer to that goal. At the University of Oregon, Kim was part of the Inside Out program that unites college students and incarcerated people in academic courses in prison. “The more incarcerated people I met, the more I knew there was no going back to a life where I could ignore prisons,” Kim says. “Lawyers have tools to disrupt the ongoing violence in people’s lives, so that’s what I want to do.” Kim graduated from the Clark Honors College in 2015 with degrees in Romance languages and history and jumped into immigration advocacy at the US-Mexico border, where she did asylum work. She recently finished an internship with the Southern Center for Human Rights of Georgia. She volunteers with the Parole Preparation project in New York, and she represents a clemency client through CUNY’s law school clinic. “My near-future goals are lawyering toward ending mass incarceration,” Kim says. “A lot of people have served excessive sentences, and a lot of people have been impacted by systematic racism. I view the law as a means to an end, and that end is justice for people of color and historically disadvantaged people.” —Victoria Sanchez, BA ’19 (journalism), College of Arts and Sciences Communications
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1970s Oregon Attorney General ELLEN ROSENBLUM, BS ’71 (sociology), received a 2021 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association. JOY L. RUPPERSBURG, BS ’75 (elementary education), MEd ’84 (special education), a former teacher, principal, and superintendent in Oregon and
California, moved her private practice as an education therapist from San Rafael, California, to her home in Petaluma, where she also enjoys organic gardening and maintaining a wildlife habitat she has dubbed, “Joy’s Jungle Petaluma.” RUBY HAUGHTONPITTS, BS ’77 (speech: rhetoric and communication), wrote an opinion piece for the Oregonian in which she argued the state must examine workplace biases that sideline women of color. DANIEL WINFREE, BS ’77 (accounting), was chosen chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, becoming the first chief justice born in Alaska.
JAMES CUNO, MA ’78 (art history), an arts leader and scholar, announced his retirement as president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust after a decade at the helm of one of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations dedicated to visual arts and cultural heritage. BONNIE VORENBURG, MS ’79 (speech: theater arts), was featured in Oregon ArtsWatch for her creation of the Portland-based ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center, which has helped spur a flourishing national scene of theater for and by older people.
1980s BRUCE EATON, BS ’80 (chemistry), became executive
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Nearly 300 banqueters gather at Eugene’s Osburn Hotel in May to honor Arnold Bennett Hall, demanding that he “serve the rest of his life as president of the University of Oregon.”
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