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“A class like this makes me honored to be a Willamette parent.”
I realize that the Salem penitentiary is male-only, but the lack of an incarcerated female voice left a hole in the article. It will be interesting to see how teachers and students work to bridge that gap in an effort to address inclusivity and diversity. Doing so can only broaden perspective and understanding of a minority within a minority.
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n Nature’s Grip” (Summer 2016, p. 14) was a fascinating article. However, there is more to the story. Last year, a long-time client of mine, Dorothy Gage ’47, died. Even though I had represented her for years, I did not know that Dorothy was an alumna of Willamette University, nor that she was a Fulbright Scholar. What I did know was that her trust donated the funds for Oregon Public Broadcasting to produce the two “Oregon Field Guide” programs mentioned in your article. Dorothy had a passion to protect the environment. — Colin Lamb ’66, JD’69
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applaud the inmates, professors Michaux and De Muniz, Rabbi Perlstein and the Willamette students for helping to create and participate in the “Reforming Criminal Justice” class (“Questions of Justice,” Summer 2016, p. 24). It was fascinating and hopeful to read about students working with inmates. The capacity for understanding, compassion and broader perspective lends itself to the greater dignity and humanity so sorely needed in the world at large, not just the prison system.
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FALL 2016
The Willamette class lays the framework for forgiveness and the many other facets of love-compassion, understanding, empathy, acceptance, cooperation, kindness, caring, consideration, respect and creativity.
Time for a Time Capsule Willamette University celebrates its 175th anniversary next year. Although there are no official plans for a time capsule, we’re curious: If you could contribute an item to a time capsule, what would you include that represents Willamette — and the world — in 2016? Send your ideas to magazine@willamette.edu.
Where’s Tufton? Congratulations to Mary Hadlock Bunn ’70, who was the first reader to locate Tufton Beamish in the summer issue. She spotted the “Tuftonline” in the photo on p. 39 of the students practicing slacklining between two trees by the Mill Stream.
A class like this makes me honored to be a Willamette parent. — Jo Anna Chamarro P’20
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’m writing to comment on the “Then & Now” article about the student admission viewbooks (Summer 2016, p. 23). I have a copy of that 1950 “We’re going to Willamette” brochure, and I’m featured in it. That’s me in the saddle shoes, paintbrush in hand, observing the paintings in the old art building. I appear again, seriously lighting a candle in the Waller Hall chapel. There are many other photos of my Pi Beta Phi sisters and friends. The man on the front cover pushing the car is Sherm Bliss ’52 (deceased), whom I was dating at the time. My two years at Willamette were memorable and a significant part of my life. In 1951, I married Roger Adams ’50. Roger died in 2012, but we attended many of our class reunions. The most recent was in the fall of 2013, when two of my daughters accompanied me, and we had a lovely time. — JoAnn Richardson Adams ’53
Can you find Tufton in this issue? Send your sightings to magazine@willamette.edu.
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