PacIfIc Lloltheran Unlvenlty Scene
June 1990
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husband travel with a trailer to all parts of the country when she's not working. The couple has four child ren, one m ar· ried daughter in East Wenatchee and three sons (two m a rried) i n the Sea-Tac area They have four grandchild ren . .
Etlc Hauke and son Skip 1'65) own and operate a com m u n i ty grocery store in Astoria, Ore. The store. Hau ke's Mar· keto tlas been owned by the Hauke family for over 1 00 years and may be tile old· est i ndependent grocery store west of the Mississippi R iver. Barbara Jean Earley Nichols d ied iVlarch 1 2 at the age of 7 '1 . S h e INas born In S p o k a n e and a t t e n ded school i n A l m i ra, Wash. After PLC, she atten ded Otis Art School in California. She is sur· vived by her husband, Jack. a daughter, Shannon, and several g randch ildren and great .g randchildren Kathleen Elizabeth (Porath) paul died Feb. 25 i n Vancouver, Wash. She graduated from Emanuel Hospital School of N u rs i ng W i t h a Registered N u rse Degree in 1 9 36 and began work at Eman· uel Hospital where she worked for over 30 years She also worked about seven years at the Dornbecker Hospital for C h i l· d re n . She is s u rvived by her h usband, Richard, several children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren
Eleanor L. R i p p o n h a s enjoyed "meeting up" With former students and friends from PLU when she visits wom en's org a n i zations as an " E n abl er" for Presbyterian Women in the Tacoma area. It was a special til rill to have Marv Harsh man suddenly show up as a close friend of her new neighbors on the Key Pen i n sula . It was wonderful to see Dottie, too.
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Russell Frye, 76, of Belfair, Wash , passed away recently. A native of Taco ma. he served In the Navy as Lieuten a n t J G d u r i n g W W I I , t a u g h t French at Fife H igh School, and was a member of the Palm Spring E l ks and St. N icholas C h u rch in Tahuya, Wash. H e i s su rvived by h is wife, Marian, a brother Norman Frye of Tacoma, and a sister, Ruth Gagliardi of Tacoma.
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John S. Dreibelble of Tacoma died in April 1 990.
Emma (Thoren) Foss has b een retired as a M i n neapol i s school soc ial worker since June, 1 985. She is very busy with volunteer work as peer counselor, Kinship board member, su rrogate parent for a retarded student and as a vol un· teer at Fairview Ridges Hospital.
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Certrude M. Krause of Tacoma is having to curtail activities due to health problems, but still hopes to enjoy her yard
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Jeanne Landdeck·Sisco with former President Ronald Reagan at Casa de los Ninos. Photo by Dianne Kercheval
Ch i ldren In Crisis Editors note: Jeanne Landdeck·Sisco '69 is executive director of Casa de los Ninos (House of the Children), a crisis shelter for children from birth to age 1 1 in Tucson, Ariz. A PLU sociology major and member of the Choir of the West and Saga Singers, she worked for se veral L u theran social service agencies fol/o wing graduation. She worked for the State of Arizona for a decade prior to assuming her presen t post.
By Jeanne Landdeck-sisco
A frighten ing new disease h as descended on America's children - a disease over which they have no control. a disease moth ers are giving their chi ldren, and one from which they may never fu l ly recover - it is crack-co caine exposu re or add iction at birth. N a t i o n a l statistics i n d icate . that 40-50 percent of persons see k i n g treatm e n t for c rack addiction a re mothers. A recent national su rvey of 36 hospitals across the country indicated as m a ny as 3 75,000 of these chil d ren a re born with an illegal sub stance i n their system. Due to Tucson's p roxi m ity to M exico, this d rug use is expanding in Ari zona as wel l . C rack is a p u rified form of coca ine that is smoked . It is par ticula rly deadly because it is easy to use, extremely addictive, i nex pensive, and leads to crime and severe psychological disorders.
Violent behavior is a com mon side effect of this d rug, so that children are at extreme risk of physical abuse in these homes. T h ree to five newborns per month are bei ng placed at the Casa d i rectly from the h ospital due to crack exposu re. T hese i nfa nts often have low b i rth weights of 3-4 pounds, cry fre quently, h ave d i fficu lty feed i ng due to physical deficiencies, and do n ot fo rm atta c h m ents to careta kers. Both t h e p hysical and emotional repercussions of t,he p re-bi rth exposure to crack have devastating effects on the futu res of these children. We must a lert teenagers, p reg n a n t wo m e n , a n d m ot h e rs about the dangers of this d rug, not only on their own p hysical and mental health and its nega tive i mpact on their parenting abilities, but on the vital risk it poses to the hea�h and even survival of their children. Never before have c h i l d ren been faced with such a l ife and death situ ation , i m p osed by their own parents. We must seek i mmed iate treatment a lterna tives for parents, expand the scope of social services needed by these children, and find inno vative ways to educate youth about p reventing this p roblem. The a lternative is a generation of children who will be lost. We can not afford to wait . . . o u r nation's children are a t stake.
Dr. Ralph Haugen is retiring as a speech-theater professor after 40 years at St. Olaf College in Northfield, M i n n . The studio theater at t h e college was renamed Ralph Haugen Theater in a spe cial ceremony May 26. Haugen has been active in St Olaf's International Studies program, taking g ro u ps of students to London for theater tours, serving as field su pervisor and program d i rector for the
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EVelyn (Knibbe) Elliott is retired from teaching i n the Highline School Dis· trict. but still substitutes_ She and her
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