>In Box Correction Incorrect graduation years were inadvertently provided for two students in last issue’s Cardinal & Gold section. Michaela Freeby and Tiras Koon are 2015 graduates, not 2016. We regret the error.
The magazine of Willamette University Summer 2015
On page 27 of the Summer 2015 issue of Willamette magazine I found my new friend and fellow alumnus Tufton Beamish. The Tufton Beamish phenomenon is both before and after my time. As a prankster at heart, I would have enjoyed it. Like Mike Durrell, whose letter appeared in the In Box section in the summer magazine, I have hidden something inside a wall during a remodel. It was a note rolled inside a dollar bill. The note was written in English and Spanish, for which I can thank my Willamette University Spanish major and my six months abroad in Oviedo, Spain, during my junior year. Do you suppose my mathematics major helped me value the entertainment I obtained by leaving that note there? — Brian Kozeliski ’92 Tufton Beamish is a fun aspect of an already great publication. In this last issue, he seems to be going by only his last name, but he’s running his “Beamish Bearcats” flag up the pole.
Inside: The pursuit of happiness goes public; We salute veterans on campus; Badge-carrying change agents abound. New Bearcat alumni say hail, farewell and let’s do good things in the world.
It seems a little early to declare for any election to public office, although the number of others who have already declared might disprove that assertion. I’ll take quality over quantity any day, especially when it relates to candidates. If Tufton decides to run, he will get my vote, because, as a WU grad, he knows the meaning of “Non nobis solum nati sumus.” The infusion of others above self would refresh our political system immensely, and for that reason, Tufton is my man. — Celia (Smith) Walker ’71
Bearcat alumni recently chimed in on the Willamette University Alumni Association Facebook page ( facebook.com/WillametteAlumni) to share memories of what must-have items they brought to campus as students. I drove up from San Francisco with everything I owned. My dad and I stopped at Office Depot to buy school supplies. When we came back out, the car was stolen. Willamette stepped up to the plate and let me rent sheets, my Opening Days leaders took me shopping, and the university even housed my dad. So even though the
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experience was traumatizing, my welcome into the Bearcat community was a great one. — Megan Brown ’08
Slacks — because fall ’69 was the first time women could wear pants walking across campus; cassettes with music (hoping my roomie had a boom box); electric curlers
Flagging down Tufton Tufton was tough to find in the last issue of Willamette magazine. Only a few eagle-eyed readers spotted the “Beamish Bearcats” flag in the lower left image on p. 27. Where’s our elusive friend hiding this time? Send your sightings to magazine@willamette.edu.
replacing those that had to be heated in boiling water; and not enough sweaters and long-johns for my first away-from-Los-Angeles fall! — Joann Young Dannen ’73 A harmonica and my stepdad’s Marine duffel bag. — Ben Wilson ’05, MAT’06 My one technological wonder was my brand-new “digital” Sony clock-radio. The numbers were on cards that flipped over like a Rolodex. — Caroline Greger ’74
I arrived from California on the bus with two bright orange footlockers containing, among other things, a typewriter, a sewing machine, and my guitar. One footlocker made a great coffee table in my room at Matthews Hall. — Mitzi Barker ’75 For other insights into how packing for college has changed over the years, turn to our Then & Now story on p. 23.