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Peter Gray a teacher, learner at age 79 Lynden man shares his extra fascination with Chinese culture

By Calvin Bratt editor@lyndentribune.com

WHATCOM ­— All of his professional life, Peter Gray has been a teacher, and a teacher of teachers. But just a single nineday trip to China in 2000 got him fired up big-time about China.

Get him going on China — or another of his topics of interest — and he will quickly and enthusiastically reenter the teacher role. No matter that he is 79, the learning impulse still runs strong.

Gray, a 12-year Lynden resident, did a presentation exactly on the Chinese New

Peter Gray prepares for his Feb. 8 talk on China at the Blaine Senior Center. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune)

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ENCORE Year’s Day Feb. 8 in the Blaine Senior Center. (2016 is the Year of the Monkey in the 12-year cycle.) This was his theme: “Things the West thinks it invented were really invented in China.”

He will repeat the illustrated talk on March 24 in the Lynden Library.

It may be generally known that the Chinese invented paper, then printing, and also gunpowder centuries before those discoveries revolutionized Europe.

But credit is deserved for these as well: the compass, wheelbarrow, umbrella, horse collar and planting crops in rows.

In fact, when East met West in the age of exploration, “they felt the world didn’t have anything to offer them,” Gray said of China.

The earliest compass was a carved lodestone, and the Chinese built huge ships capable of carrying 700 or 800 sailors and may have touched on the North American continent before Columbus did, according to Gray and some in his Blaine audience.

Self-sufficient China allowed a few of its seaports to do trade with the West, but was not interested in any inland embassy relationships, Gray said. It was England’s promotion of opium into China in the mid-19th century, trying especially to obtain tea and silk, that set off two Opium Wars. “That was not a very nice chapter in our history,” Gray interjected.

Archaeological evidence of a wheelbarrow traces back at least to the secondcentury Han Dynasty. In China, the wooden wheel was in the center of a cart used to haul people as well as merchandise.

The umbrella apparently started out as a canopy over carts. It shows up in the amazing Terracotta Army collection of sculptures that was unearthed in 1974 in Shaanxi province. It is all art from the tomb of the first emperor of China, circa 210 BCE. Today, umbrellas artistically made of notched bamboo and paper are a tourism item in China, and Gray had two such specimens as well as Terracotta Army miniatures on display in Blaine.

Europe was still seeding crops randomly until 1700 AD whereas the Chinese had invented row planting of their rice paddies more than two millennia earlier.

It might have gone along with the terracing of steep hillsides that the Chinese also perfected.

The way a harness fit on a horse, from Roman into Medieval times, tended to choke the animal as it exerted itself. The Chinese were the first, again centuries before Christ, to figure out that the breastcollar harness distributed the pull force better on a horse.

His China interest All of Gray’s fascination with China stems from a trip he took in September 2000 with a group organized out of the University of California-Berkeley.

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Peter Gray shows off two Chinese umbrellas artistically made of bamboo and paper. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune) Gray was instructing in math at Whatcom Community College at the time — and he continues to do so on a part-time basis.

The group of about 25 Americans presented at a university in Hangzhou on methods that could be used by elementary school teachers to integrate mathematics with social studies and science.

But the visit went far beyond for Gray — “I just fell in love with these places,” he said. He saw the beauty of the Taihu (West) Lake region and its cities of Hangzhou and Suzhou west of coastal Shanghai. He likes to recite a Chinese proverb that “As there is paradise in heaven, Hangzhou and Suzhou are paradise on earth.”

It’s a region that Marco Polo traveled to and wrote of glowingly — the land was known as Cathay then — back in the 13th century.

Gray dug deeper into China’s rich 5,000 years of history. He read about adventurer Roy Chapman Andrews’ visit to Mongolia in the 1920s and discovery of dinosaur eggs there, solving a key paleontology question. He also learned of the English Cambridge scientist Joseph Needham, who traveled in China and worked to save See China on C4

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China: History to learn Continued from C3 its cultural treasures amid the devastation of World War II. “As I researched, I got more and more interested,” Gray said.

He said he would like to go back to China, but at his age he is not so sure. If he were to do it, it might be with a Guo Cheng-led group (see C5 sidebar).

His career story From California, Gray came up to Western Washington University to get his master’s degree in mathematics in 1967. His brother Neil already taught in the department.

He got another math degree from the University of Washington and went into teaching, mostly at the community college level back in California.

But along the way he also enjoyed teaching in a special innercity program at the elementary school level using the Socratic method of asking questions instead of just giving answers. This project took him to Seattle, Los Angeles and New York City, and Gray saw significant academic catch-up in kids who had fallen behind.

“Pretty soon the students discovered I wasn’t giving any answers. All the answers were coming from them,” he said. “It was so much fun.”

He developed educational math games and began writing grades K-9 curriculum.

Gray had long wanted to return to Bellingham, and the opportunity came in 1985 when he used a very attention-getting railroad car in Fairhaven to start the Evergreen Math Center offering tutoring and enrichment and remedial classes.

That morphed into his Math Adventure company, which de-

The wheelbarrow was used in China centuries before it was in the West. (Courtesy photo)

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veloped curriculum, trained tutors and ran elementary-level teacher workshops.

Gray set up several contests involving Whatcom County schools and businesses. He has been a consultant to the Mt. Baker School District and Lummi Tribal School, among others. For a time he was an adjunct faculty member at Seattle Pacific University.

His interests became broader than just math. His approach is “hands-on, directed discovery” so that mathematics is integrated with science, reading, geography, history and playground activities.

“To this day, if I had the backing, I’d go out totally to this type of program in every school in the country,” Gray says of the integrated method.

His published work includes the five-grade Math-Science Adventure Series and five volumes of “Who Was Who in America — Their Childhood Years.”

Gray counts as a special time the five years he worked with teacher Tim Sheppard and Russian students at Kendall Elementary School. A sister relationship was developed with a school in Siberia, and their teachers exchanged visits.

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China trip full for 2016 The Blaine Senior Center has a special connection to China through Guo Cheng.

A 14-year Blaine resident now with her husband, Richard Blackburn, Guo founded the Blaine Taiji Academy in 2009 and teaches a class in the meditation practice each Monday at the center.

Guo also contracts with a tour company and helps lead a local group to travel in China every other year.

The next trip happens this May 10-29, and the maximum 20 people are already signed up, she said.

But Guo is willing to consider organizing another trip already in 2017 if the interest is there.

She and Richard can be reached at 332-1435.

In 2015 Guo Cheng received an award for her contributions to the Blaine community. (Courtesy photo)

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NookChats at Everson library a warm cozyup to local history Jim Berg hosts guests the second Sunday of each month

By Elisa Claassen for the Lynden Tribune

EVERSON — The visitors sit next to each other in rocking chairs, with the sound of a roaring fire in the background, and talk. Snacks are served. Friends are talking of days gone by and sharing mem-

Carl Crouse, left, was host Jim Berg’s guest Sunday, Feb. 14, talking on the Nooksack Camp of the Advent Church.

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ories. It could be in someone’s living room, but it isn’t.

The location: Everson’s library.

In 2014 as part of the Transforming Library Spaces Project, the Everson branch of the Whatcom County Library System and Bellingham Public Library were two in the state of Washington to transform space previously occupied by reference books and other media collections into dynamic spaces for active community engagement.

Working with a grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Bellingham Central Library hosts SkillShare activities including craft times. The Everson McBeath Community Library chose to devote a section not only as a Nooksack Valley Heritage Center repository for the area’s local history, but also for bringing the community together to share history orally.

Previously, area volunteers had worked with patrons to digitize documents and record oral histories. Then funds were made available to purchase access to the Ancestry.com database for users to access their own genealogy. A subgroup of the library’s Friends organization started meeting to figure how to move forward with use of the new space early in 2015.

In addition to changing displays in the space, local historian Jim Berg plays host to monthly guests to simply “chat.” Producer John Mitchell, who also works on eco-friendly documentaries, has been on hand to film the sessions using existing light and a small camera so as not to distract the speakers. These chats are also recorded and available in raw footage format for public access within a week or two via YouTube and the City of Bellingham’s BTV10 channel in cooperation with Comcast. By the time it airs on TV, Mitchell said, the presentation has been edited into 30-minute segments with added close-ups on documents and photos.

“We zoom in on the picture and tell the story,” Mitchell said. “It gets out of the archives and into people’s consciousness.”

“It’s a really relaxed feeling,” branch librarian Eileen Shaw said.

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It’s a cozy and close setting for the NookChat events in the Everson Library, usually held on the second Sunday of the month. (Courtesy photo)

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Chat: Variety of local history explored Continued from C7 Initially, maybe 10 to 20 friends and family of the guests would come. Lately, the program has gained in popularity and closer to 40 may be seated. As a result, the library is open on the second Sunday of the month when it is usually closed to the public to accommodate the growing crowds.

“I see people reconnect,” Shaw said.

In the past, she said, Everson’s residents might have had very different outlooks on life, but “everyone had to work together.”

Shaw, who shares an avid interest in history with the branch library’s first librarian, the late Barb Skinner, said she has been keeping a list of people in the community who mention stories they might want to share.

NookChat sessions in 2015 brought memories of early area schools, the fire department and early transportation systems. Dwayne Dunlap, founder of the former Dunny’s Restaurant on Nooksack Avenue now occupied by a dental clinic,

Last March at the Everson library, Allen and Liz Fritzberg talked about the Berman (Allen’s mother’s) family growing up on Stickney Island Road a century ago. (File Photo/Lynden Tribune)

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talked of the large plastic chicken sitting next to the roadway.

Pastor Carl Crouse, of Sumas Advent Christian Church, was Berg’s latest guest at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 14. While those new to the city of Nooksack see some unusual homes amidst newer ones along West 2nd and 3rd streets, they may not know this was once home to the Nooksack Campground of the Advent church. Many of the attending children are now in their 50s or older.

“Nooksack Campground impacted thousands of people during its almost 100-year history,” Crouse said. “A few of the buildings remain, but the memories live on. We will begin the Nookchat memories with the reason the campground was founded in 1898, sketch out a brief history, display historical photographs, and even let people hold the original Bible bag that belonged to Elder Carman, one of the original founders in 1898.

Many folks have fond memories of going to camps and youth gatherings on the grounds.

“The Nooksack Campground represents a rich heritage of camp meetings that was one of the means of expanding Christianity to the West Coast in the 1800s. Nooksack and Everson are blessed to have it as part of the story of the community,” he said.

Upcoming NookChats • Sunday, March 13, 3 p.m., Jim Berg with Matt Lagerwey • Sunday, April 10, 3 p.m., Jim Berg with Jim Noteboom • Sunday, May 8, 3 p.m., Jim Berg on “The Lynching of Louis Sam”

2015 NookChats • May 11, Jim Berg and Dwayne Dunlap • June 8, Jim Berg and Marv Fullner, on early transportation • July 13, Jim Berg and Inez Sorenson Berg, on first schools • Aug. 10, Jim Berg and Don Richendrfer • Sept. 14, Jim Berg and Anton Neyens, on the fire department • Oct. 11, Jim Berg and Spencer Ahrens, on Forest Grove, Everson Goshen • Nov. 18, Jim Berg and Lisa Needham • Dec. 13, Jim Berg and Tom Westergreen

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Local senior tours can open up the world Options range from one day to May 2-10 to Cuba WHATCOM — It’s time to think about your travel plans in 2016, and don’t overlook the options offered by the Whatcom County Senior Tour Program.

From Seattle to Ireland, seniors can travel with a tour made just for them.

There are day trips as well as multiple-day extended and overseas trips.

The program is offered by the Whatcom Council on Aging through the Bellingham Senior Activity Center, 315 Halleck St. It caters to adults of a range of ages and interests. The program is also able to accommodate people with special needs.

This program strives to facilitate healthy aging and continued growth.

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This is the schedule of trips or travel presentations planned for 2016: • Cuba Travel Show, Tuesday, Feb. 23 Cuba is being called “the hottest destination of the year,” and for the planned Nov. 2-10 trip this can be a virtual preview.

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What values are we passing on to future generations?

This opinion piece was submitted by Gene Goldsmith of Ferndale. He is a former state legislator and former chairman of the Whatcom County Republican Party.

As I pass three quarters of a century, I look back on my life and want to comment on the quality of life that my generation has had the opportunity to live. Our parents, the World War II generation, have been called the world’s greatest generation, and that may be true. They also enabled my generation to have the greatest opportunities and lifestyles of any generation in the history of the world.

Raised in a small town, we never had to lock the doors. During the summer, we left our homes early in the morning and had only to be home by dark, and we felt safe. Our schools were run by teachers and our principals taught, and they made sure we learned. We studied our founding documents and revered and believed in them, and now for that we are called anti-government and derided by our media and politicians. We were allowed to work and learn how money was earned and the value it had. We were taught to respect our elders and love our country. We were taught to respect our police and admire our soldiers; they were our heroes.

As I look to the future, I worry deeply about the future country my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren are inheriting. Our parents as they raised us — for reasons I have been asking myself for the last 50 years — told us to never discuss politics or religion, as it would cause arguments, so we didn’t. The results of not having those discussions and arguments have created a country that is difficult for me to recognize.

We have a political system that less than 10 percent of the citizens believe represents “We the people.” We have a government that believes that if we pass enough laws, we can make evil people good. I look to the folly of our politicians in education policy, environmental decisions, political correctness, spending money we don’t have, unfair trade negotiations, the non-assimilation of immigrants, and more, and wonder where the future opportunities of our progeny will come from.

I am going to ask some questions that I want you to answer for yourself. How will our economy grow when our schools only teach diversity and political correctness and not reading, writing and arithmetic? It seems the main concern of our education bureaucracy is how many administrators we can have and how many programs we can develop rather than how we can pay good

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teachers to enforce the values and principles that we have in our homes. Technology may have improved our lives, but do we know anything anymore or do we just ask Siri? How many people need to die and how many millions in property losses do we need to have before we admit that not dredging our rivers was a wrong decision? How many businesses need to leave this country because our tax policy and regulations do not allow profit to be generated and jobs created here? How many citizens will be murdered and injured before we admit gun-free zones are shooting galleries for evil and mentally deficient people? How many of our nation’s finest — our military and first-responders — will lose their lives before we decide to lead the world in fighting those that want to destroy our way of life and Western civilization?

John Adams, one of our founding fathers, stated that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

As you prepare and study this year’s candidates for public office, I pray that you will study each of them and vote for those that will return us to the “shining city on the hill” that you want your children to inherit.

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New Blaine facility to be celebrated Feb. 18 BLAINE — A new 5,000-square-foot addition to the Blaine Community Center was built to meet the growing need for a year-round place to play, gather and celebrate.

The $600,000 project is a collaboration of the City of Blaine, Boys & Girls Club of Whatcom County, Blaine Senior Center, Blaine-Birch Bay Parks and Recreation District 2 and the Whatcom Community Foundation.

The Boys & Girls Club and senior center will hold programs there as well as the Parks and Recreation District. Residents can rent the space for family or community events.

A grand opening of the new Blaine Pavilion takes place on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 5:30 p.m. at 763 G St. Refreshments will be provided.

For more details, contact Deborah at 543-9982.

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