Portland Magazine Winter 2010

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F E A T U R E S 4 / Why the Campaign? Why is the University setting off on a roaring campaign now, of all moments? Because we are a hope factory! Because we are absolutely set on healing the bruised and blessed world! Because it is our time! Because it is your time! •

16 / The Splendid Torch, by Martin Flanagan In time of immense trouble, amazing people emerge. Like you.

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18 / A Touch of Class, by Louis Masson After forty years of teaching literature on The Bluff, a beloved professor writes his final paper. •

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24 / One Love, photographs by Levon Biss Every autumn the University is transformed into a wild sweet roaring community by the most popular sport in the world, the one that has elevated us in extraordinary ways. A superb photographer catches the joy and grace of soccer around the planet. •

32 / The Call to Forgiveness at the End of the Day, by Kathleen Dean Moore A letter to a granddaughter in the year 2025. •

34 / A Vision of Eternity, by John Daniel A library isn’t about books and data. It’s about epiphany and awakening and discovery and curiosity and astonishment and dreaming and memory and maybe wisdom. page 24

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38 / A Shiver of Ecstasy, by Nathan Haskell ’10 “The best thing that ever happened to me was getting crushed by a car far from home...” •

47 / New Lands, paintings by Anita Lehmann What will the University’s River Campus look like in the year 2050? •

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50 / A Chapel Is Where You Can Hear Something Beating Below Your Heart, by Pico Iyer “I came to the chapel at the University as the light was falling...” •

58 / One of Them, by Heather King Perhaps truth is like Mother Teresa, so harsh and blunt and brilliant that it scalds our eyes and hearts… •

62 / A Note on the Business of Creativity, by Christine Fundak Rohan What if you had an idea and then made it real? Isn’t that the whole point of businesses and universities and countries? Isn’t that what creativity is for? •

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68 / Bobby and Megan, photo by Jerry Hart A wonderful gentleman and a glorious girl and the scholarship that binds them. •

70 / My Name is Y Hoang, photograph by Jerry Hart “I came to America with empty hands and a bag of broken dreams... I would not be at the University without the help of so many people...” •

72 / Campus Moments, drawings and notes by Michael McClafferty ’94 •

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76 / Sacrifice: A Note, by Brian Doyle Erik Spoelstra ’92, coach of the NBA’s Miami Heat, on trust and generosity. •

82 / His Hands, photographs by Jeanine Hill The tools that taught the brilliant engineer Donald Shiley ’51 his trade.

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