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ARTS & LETTERS On this campus Thursday, October 24: the hilarious and piercing essayist and novelist David James Duncan, on whom the University draped an honorary doctoral hood in 2004 for the “poetry and prayer and passion and power” of his work. His 7 p.m. talk in Buckley Auditorium is free and open to all. Call Brian Doyle at 503.943.8225 for details. ¶ Poet Alan Shapiro visits Tuesday, November 12, reading from his work in BC 163 at 7.30 p.m. ¶ And for those of you making winter plans, the former Poet Laureate of the United States will be reading from her work on campus February 13, free as can be: the estimable Louise Glück, whose father invented the Xacto knife! Wow! ¶ The annual hilarious summer light opera in Hunt Theater this year: Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, June 7 through 30. Tickets are $30 and they are worth every penny, trust us. Call 503.943.7287 for tickets. And pray for the soul of founder Roger O. Doyle, who loved his summer light opera, yes he did.
sary celebration is Thursday evening, June 27, in Bauccio Commons; tickets are $50 ($35 for young alumni); come one come all. Call Amy Kwong-Kwapisz for details, 503.943.7752. For more on S of E at age fifty, see page 50. ¶ Reunion is June 27-30, with more events than we can actually count: call 503.943.7328, or email alumni@up.edu to register, figure out housing, etc. ¶ On campus September 19 for the University’s annual Red Mass, celebrating lawyers and judges and those who work for justice: Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court, who will give a speech that day. Thomas is one of six Catholic justices on the Court. “Talk about a minority within a minority within a minority,” he has said of being raised “a black Catholic in Savannah, Georgia…I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I’m proud of it…” ¶ The Graduate School, we note with interest, is up to 17 programs: master’s degrees in fine arts, business, communication, education, engineering, nursing, and theology, and doctorates in nursing and education.
THE FACULTY
THE UNIVERSITY Hosted by the University’s Garaventa Center for Ameri can Catholic Life from June 20 through 22: “The Impact of Catholic Education in America,” cosponsored with the School of Education and its vibrant Pacific Alliance for Catholic Education program. Teachers, administrators, pastors, scholars, students welcome. Costs, times, details: Jamie Powell, 503.943.7702, powell@up.edu. ¶ The School of Education’s golden anniver-
Celebrated at the end of May in Shiley Engineering Hall: the 100th birthday of Tek tronix Founder Howard Vollum ’36, who left the University $11 million for engineering support when he died in 1986. Among the speakers: Ed Sinclair (cofounder of VintageTEK) and Russell Fillinger of Tektronix; and a vintage Tektronix 511 oscilloscope was handed to the University with great fanfare. ¶ The University’s Outstand ing Teacher this year: the witty and curious Lars Larson (English). Scholar(s) of the Years: Russ Butkus (theology) and Steve Kolmes (environ-
mental studies), who have worked together for many years to prove that science is creative spiritual pursuit, of course. Deans’ Award for glorious irrepressible service: Kate Regan (Spanish). Culligan Medal — the highest faculty award — for energy, commitment, etc., over a career on The Bluff: the lanky Texan John Orr (English).
mink, eagle, osprey, falcon, heron, hawk, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in May. ¶ The University offers the Chiles Center to local high schools every summer for their graduations: this year we will welcome Oregon City, Milwaukie, Clackamas, Beaverton, Westview, Southridge, Sunset, and Aloha high schools.
THE SEASON
FROM THE PAST
Being planted down on the new riverfront campus this spring and summer: alder, ash, cottonwood, hawthorn, dogwood, serviceberry, snowberry, elderberry, plum, Pacific ninebark, salmonberry, Douglas firs, and two clans of willow. ¶ Opening with fanfare and laughter and relief and trumpet blasts and something like awe in August (you have to see the changes to believe them): the University’s Clark Library, after more than a year of total renovation. It even faces a different direction (west, to the chapel quad) now and has a cool fireplace, and a real elevator. Whew. Come see for yourself. ¶ Celebrating ordination anniversaries this summer as stalwart Men of the Con gregation of Holy Cross: the exuberant author and psychology professor emeritus Father Dick Berg (50 years!), art professor and Salzburg Program director Father Mark Ghyselinck, former University jack-of-all-trades Father Jim King, and former University regent Father Bill Miscamble (all 25 years). Celebrating his whopping 70th ordination anniversary: the legendary Father Ted Hesburgh, many times a visitor on The Bluff as the terrific president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987. ¶ Seen on and over campus over the last year, by University folks on land and water: deer, coyote, bobcat, raccoon, nutria, otter,
August 15 last year: Neil Armstrong return to the Idea from whom came the moon he so famously walked on in 1969. Today’s historical detail: the 47 pounds of moon rocks and dust he and (University honorary doctorate recipient) Buzz Aldrin collected had to go through customs in Hawaii before being admitted to American laboratories (“Origin of flight? “Moon.” No kidding.) ¶ June 1933: the great poet W.H. Auden, sitting on a school lawn one evening, experiences a mystical vision: he felt “invaded by a power… irresistible” and later called it agape, a vision of selfless Love. ¶ July in University history, drawn from the invaluable www.up.edu/almanac run by Father David Sherrer, C.S.C.: July 7, 1965, the death of economics professor Father Jim Fogarty, who saved and wheedled enough money for the University to build the Chapel of Christ the Teacher (which reopens this summer after a major overhaul); July 15, 1820, the birthday of the Brothers of Saint Joseph in France, who would later become part of the new Congregation of Holy Cross in 1835; July 28, 1844, the birthday of the glorious Catholic poet Father Gerard Manley Hopkins, who has been taught on The Bluff for nearly a century and God willing always will be. ¶ Born on August 20, 1929, in Kansas City: the genius Charles Parker, Junior.
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ART BY MARY MILLER DOYLE
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