Retiring Linfield professors to give last lectures
Retiring Linfield College professors will give one “last lecture” on the topic of their choosing before retirement.
Nursing professor Barbara Limandri will present “Nursing: Intelligent Women Need Not Apply” on Monday, May 9, at 5:30 p.m. in the Peterson Hall Auditorium at the Linfield Portland Campus. Limandri joined the Linfield faculty in 2004. She brought with her a wealth of knowledge in the field of nursing and she holds a Ph.D. in psychiatric nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. Limandri’s remarks during her lecture are expected to be slightly irreverent, political and feminist in tone.
Accounting professors Rich Emery and Malcolm Greenlees will present their lecture together on Tuesday, May 10, at 7 p.m. in 222 T.J. Day Hall. Greenlees joined the Department of Business in 1984 with Emery following shortly after in 1986. Together they have taught Linfield accounting students for a combined 62 years.
Each lecture is free and open to the public. Receptions will follow. For more information, contact Debbie Harmon Ferry, director of alumni and parent relations, 503-883-2607, dharmon@linfield.edu.
Lectures, exhibit honors Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
Two lectures and an exhibit at Linfield College will honor the legacy of the late Professor Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds.
Susan Prichard, research scientist with the U.S. Forest Service, will speak on “Fire Ecology” Monday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall as part of the Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds lecture series.
On Tuesday, May 10, author Robert Michael Pyle will speak on “Sometimes a Great Notion Works Out: Macnab’s Aspection, the Coast Range, and Jane Claire’s Excellent Adventure” at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room of Nicholson Library. That event will also celebrate a display of artifacts belonging to Dirks-Edmunds and donated to the archives by her former student, Lyle Hubbard ’58.
Prichard works for the Pacific Wildlands Fire Sciences Lab in Washington where she studies issues pertaining to climate change and forest dynamics with an eye to developing strategies to mitigate wildfires and their effects. She completed her bachelor’s at The Evergreen State College, and a master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. She will be on campus all day May 9 and 10 meeting with students and faculty. The lecture is sponsored by the Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Lectureship and PLACE (Program for Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement). For information contact Chad Tillberg, 503-883-2221, ctillbe@linfield.edu.
Pyle will discuss one of the great ecological experiments of the modern era that sprang from Linfield College and the fertile mind of the late Professor James Macnab. He wondered whether it would be possible to take in the entirety of a Coast Range mountainside: an aspection, as he called it, looking at its every working part from all possible angles. This is a brief telling of that remarkable story.
Pyle has published 14 books including his newest book of poetry, “Evolution of the Genus Iris.” He is also the author of papers, essays, stories and poems published in numerous magazines and journals. Pyle holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. from Yale University. He often lectures at Portland State University and Lewis & Clark College. The lecture is sponsored by the Linfield Nicholson Library. For more information, contact Susan Barnes Whyte, 503-883-2517, swhyte@linfield.edu.
Band presents outdoor concert in the Quad
An upcoming Linfield College band performance, “Music in the Arts Quad,” will feature three student conductors along with the Linfield Concert Band on Tuesday, May 10, at 6:30 p.m. in the Nicholson Library Courtyard.
The outdoor concert will feature Jamie Bostock ’17, a music major with a focus on choral conducting as well as the soprano section leader in the Linfield Concert Choir; Sophia Reinhardt ’18, a music major studying piano, cello and composition; and Ana Ramirez ’18, an education major minoring in music. Program highlights include “Lux Aurumque” by Eric Whitacre, “The Jupiter Hymn” from Gustav Holst’s most popular work “The Planets” and “The Three Ayres of Gloucester” by Hugh M. Stuart.
The Linfield Concert Band is an instrumental ensemble made up of students and community members who play woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. Student performers are music majors and minors, as well as non-majors from across campus. This year’s Concert Band graduating seniors including Quillan Bourassa, Daniel Bradley, Kathryn van Dyk, Gregory Moses and Andrea Pakula.
Concertgoers are encouraged to come early, bring blankets and chairs and claim a grassy spot to enjoy the show. In the case of rain, the concert will be moved to the Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivan Bull Music Center.
The concert is free, open to the public and sponsored by the Linfield College Department of Music and Nicholson Library. For more information, call 503-883-2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
Smart featured in Linfield Wine Lecture Series
Richard Smart, one of the most experienced viticultural scientists in the world, will present “What I’ve Learned in 50 Years of Viticulture: And Some Messages for Oregon” on Tuesday, May 10, at 8 p.m. in Jonasson Hall. The talk is part of the Linfield College Wine Lecture Series.
Smart will share insight into his long career as a leading viticultural scientist as well as a focused message specifically on Oregon’s vineyard systems. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University and a D.Sc. Agriculture from the University of Stellenbosch. He has researched and consulted in vineyards in more than 40 countries. Much of his recent consulting has been in countries with developing wine sectors like Mexico, Serbia, Georgia, Thailand, Myanmar and China. Because of his extensive travel, he has received the nickname “The Flying Vine-Doctor.” In addition to his extensive experience with vineyards across the world, Smart is the author of “Sunlight Into Wine,” a book on vineyard canopy management. He is also the viticulture editor for the multi-award winning “Oxford Companion to Wine” by Jancis Robinson, and has more than 350 published works.
For more information, call 503-883-2766.
Student artists to display work in two exhibitions
Two Linfield College exhibits, the Senior Thesis Exhibition and the Portfolio Exhibition, will showcase student art May 11-29 in the James F. Miller Fine Arts Center.
Artist presentations will be held Wednesday, May 11, at 5 p.m. in the Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivian A. Bull Music Center, followed by a reception at 7:30 p.m. in the Linfield Gallery.
The Senior Thesis Exhibition, “Lam.Prey,” will be held in the Linfield Gallery featuring the work of graduating seniors Julian Adoff, Heidie Ambrose, Richie Benson, Kristin Miller, Jana Purington and Chandler Redding.
The Portfolio Exhibition will be held in the Nils Lou Gallery featuring the work of Cayman Conley, Jasmine Fojas, Joel Mills, Noemy Vega and Kytana Winn. The exhibit is the culmination of the year-long course for majors during which students develop a portfolio of unified work.
All exhibits are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. The gallery is located in the James F. Miller Fine Arts Center on the Linfield College campus. For more information, call 503-883-2804 or visit Linfield Gallery online at www.linfield.edu/art/gallery-now.
Farewell to graduating and departing students, scholars
Join the International Programs Office for a farewell party for graduating seniors, and departing international students and scholars Thursday, May 12, at 3:30 p.m. in Jonasson Hall. For more information, call 503-883-2222.
Spring chamber concert to showcase Linfield students
The Linfield College Department of Music will present its spring chamber music concert on Thursday, May 12, at 4 p.m. in the Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivian A. Bull Music Center at Linfield.
The concert features students and faculty and includes a flute quartet, a brass quintet, a flute and guitar duo, various string duos and quartets and a clarinet ensemble.
Widely varied music selections will be performed, including “Intermezzo” from “Cavalleria Rusticana” by Masagni, “Peacherine Rag” by Scott Joplin, “Entr’acte” by Jacques Ibert, “Rigaudon” by Edvard Grieg, music from “Wind in the Reeds” by Gordon Jacob, duo compositions by Béla Bartók, quartets by W. Amadeus Mozart and additional works by composers from both Classical and Romantic eras.
This concert is free, open to the public and sponsored by the Linfield College Department of Music. For more information call 503-883-2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
‘Commit to be Fit’ lifestyle fair and fun run set at Linfield
“Commit to be Fit,” a lifestyle change fair and 5K fun run, will be held Saturday, May 14, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Health, Human Performance and Athletics Building.
The lifestyle fair is free and open to the public. There is a registration fee for the 5K run/walk, at Event Brite. The fee for the 5K event is $10 for community participants, $7 for Linfield students, faculty and staff with valid IDs and free for participants in the Student Nutrition and Activity Clinic for Kids (SNACK) program of Yamhill County. Registration will also be available the day of the run.
The lifestyle change fair will feature health screening including cholesterol, diabetes, blood pressure, body composition, grip strength; a variety of local vendors including experts in nutrition, health and wellness, local community health services; mini Zumba sessions; various experiential nutrition and fitness activity stations; and an opportunity to win gift baskets to raise money for the SNACK program. SNACK provides additional support and services to children and their families to lead healthier lifestyles, including free activity sessions, evidence-driven health education and community events.
This event is made possible through funding from Yamhill Community Care Organization’s Build Forward Program, and with the support of students and staff in the Linfield Health, Human Performance and Athletics Department. For more information call Katherine Sours, 503-434-8278, coordinator@snackprogram.org.
Linfield choirs, chamber orchestra combine for spring concert
Linfield College choirs, accompanied by a chamber orchestra, will present a spring concert on Sunday, May 15, at 4 p.m. in Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield College.
An 18-musician chamber orchestra will be featured in the centerpiece of the program, John Corigliano’s “Fern Hill,” a marvelous setting of Dylan Thomas’ evocative poem for choir and chamber orchestra. Also featured will be Cecil Effinger’s “Four Pastorales” accompanied by oboe, musical settings of Shakespeare texts, and songs from Ireland and America.
The Linfield choral groups are directed by Anna Song, associate professor of music and director of choral activities since 2008. Song graduated with a bachelor’s in composition from the University of California Los Angeles, and received her master’s in conducting from the School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. She recently completed her doctoral studies in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition to teaching and conducting at Linfield, she is the co-founder and artistic director of In Mulieribus, a professional women’s ensemble that focuses on the performance of early music.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Linfield Department of Music at 503-883-2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
Former journalist McKay to read from book about the Oregon Story
Floyd McKay, 1957 Linfield College graduate and renowned Oregon journalist, will read from his new book on Wednesday, May 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room in the Nicholson Library.
McKay’s book, “Reporting the Oregon Story: How Activists and Visionaries Transformed a State,” covers the period from 1964 to 1986, often referred to as The Oregon Story because it was a time of great change. From clean rivers and open beaches to mass transit and the Columbia Gorge, those two decades shaped the future of Oregon. As a reporter at the Oregon Statesman (now the Statesman Journal) in Salem and a news analyst at KGW-TV for 17 years in Portland, McKay knew all the major players and rising newcomers that defined this era.
His book describes and analyzes the time, linking the state’s leadership with an emerging corps of activists, many of them women who were on the cusp of taking leadership roles in Oregon politics. It also discusses changes in the Oregon media and is the first to link the environmental gains of the time with the emergence of a Portland renaissance that included MAX, Pioneer Square and the demise of urban freeways.
McKay left full-time journalism in 1986 and spent two years as an assistant to Gov. Neil Goldschmidt. From 1990 to 2004 he taught journalism at Western Washington University, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington along the way, specializing in media history, and later writing two books and many academic journal articles on that topic.
The reading, part of the “Readings at the Nick” series, is free, open to the public and sponsored by Nicholson Library and the Linfield College Department of Mass Communications. For more information, contact Susan Barnes Whyte at 503-883-2517 or swhyte@linfield.edu.
Linfield theatre department concludes season with ‘Picnic’
The Linfield College theatre program concludes its 2015-16 season in the Marshall Theatre in Ford Hall with “Picnic” by William Inge and under the guest direction of Ellyn Gersh Lerner. Performance dates are May 12-14 at 7:30 p.m.
“Picnic” offers a portrait of life in a small Kansas town in the 1950s — a town of tranquility and monotony, where neighbors wave from their porches and life can be stifling. As everyone eagerly awaits the annual Labor Day picnic, the arrival of a stranger turns life upside down.
Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the original Broadway production was directed by Joshua Logan, who received the Tony Award for Best Director, and marked Paul Newman’s Broadway debut.
Lerner, who has a Ph.D. in theatre arts, has more than 25 years’ experience in teaching and directing. She has directed more than 30 plays in a variety of theatres from schools to churches to off-Broadway. She has also participated in the prestigious Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in teacher-training programs and professional conferences as a guest speaker and panelist. She last directed at Linfield for the May 2009 production of Lanford Wilson’s “Book of Days.”
“I was delighted to be invited back to Linfield because my experience here couldn’t have been more gratifying,” said Lerner. “As an undergraduate at Occidental College, a small liberal arts college in Los Angeles, we had a small student body and a gorgeous campus like Linfield. Here, I feel very comfortable because my own philosophy and approach to play production align with that of the Linfield faculty and staff.”
Cast members include seniors Daniel Bradley of Terrebonne who will play Hal Carter; Emily Griffin of Anguin, Calif., who will play Flo Owens; Travis McKenna of Elko, Nev., who will play Bomber; and Brianna Norris of Milwaukie who will play Rosemary; juniors Naomi Boydston of Friday Harbor, Wash., who will play Millie Owens; and Joella Cordell of Caldwell, Idaho, who will play Helen Potts; sophomores Sierra-Karen Denend of Yakima, Wash., who will play Irma Kronkite; Marcos Galvez of Hood River who will play Howard Bevans; Raisa Mlynski of Forrest Grove who will play Christine; and Cassandra Martinez of Woodburn who will play Helen’s mother’s voice; freshmen Zachary Brehmeyer of Rancho Cucamongo, Calif., who will play Beano; Analesa Fisher of Lake Oswego who will play Madge Owens; Antoine Johnson of Hoquiam, Wash., who will play the voice of boys; and Glenn B. Rust of Eugene who will play Alan Seymour.
Taylor Pitner of Kailua, Hawaii, is the stage manager. Scenic and lighting design is by Ty Marshall, sound design by Rob Vaughn ’97 and Alyssa Coleman ’16 and costume design by Laurel Peterson ’07.
Tickets are $9 for full price; $7 for seniors (62+) and Linfield faculty and staff; and $5 for students (any age, any school). Seating is reserved. Tickets are available at linfield.edu/arts and at the Marshall Theatre Box Office.
This play contains adult themes and is not suitable for all audiences. The production is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
For more information call 503-883-2292.
Community News
Michelle Nelson, professor of marketing, has been elected to be the president of the Marketing Educators Association (MEA) 2016-17. Last year she served as the president-elect for MEA, which is the premiere international organization for faculty development of the marketing professoriate.
Andrea Reinkemeyer, assistant professor of music composition and theory, will be a featured composer on Ellen Grolman’s show, “Music of Our Mothers” on WFCF, Flagler College Radio, 88.5 FM in St. Augustine, Fla. Her pieces, Dos Danzas for Concert Band and #@&%!* (expletive deleted) for Percussion Quartet will be featured between 1-3 p.m. EST. You may listen online http://www.iheart.com/live/wfcf-88five-fm-5246/. Her work is also featured on the show’s website: http://www.musicofourmothers.com/
Campus calendar
MONDAY, MAY 9
5:30 p.m.: Barbara Limandri last lecture, “Nursing: Intelligent Women Need Not Apply,” Peterson Hall Auditorium, Portland Campus
7:30 p.m.: Susan Prichard, “Fire Ecology,” Ice Auditorium
TUESDAY, MAY 10
5:15 p.m.: Wildcat Workout, Maxwell Field
6:30 p.m.: “Music in the Arts Quad,” Nicholson Library Courtyard
7 p.m.: Rich Emery and Malcolm Greenlees last lecture, 222 T.J. Day Hall
7:30 p.m.: Robert Michael Pyle, “Sometimes a Great Notion Works Out: Macnab’s Aspection, the Coast Range, and Jane Claire’s Excellent Adventure,” Austin Reading Room, Nicholson Library
8 p.m.: Richard Smart, “What I’ve Learned in 50 Years of Viticulture: And Some Messages for Oregon,” Jonasson Hall
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11
5 p.m.: Senior Thesis Exhibition and the Portfolio Exhibition artist presentations, Delkin Recital Hall
7:30 p.m.: Senior Thesis Exhibition and the Portfolio Exhibition reception, Linfield Gallery
THURSDAY, MAY 12
Today through Saturday: Track and field at Frank Haskins Invitational
Noon: Wildcat Workout, Maxwell Field
3:30 p.m.: IPO Farewell party, Jonasson Hall
7:30 p.m.: “Picnic,” Marshall Theatre
FRIDAY, MAY 13
Today: Softball at NCAA regionals
11:30 a.m.: Blood Pressure Screening Clinic, Cook Hall lobby
7:30 p.m.: “Picnic,” Marshall Theatre
7:30 p.m.: Jazz Night, Ice Auditorium
SATURDAY, MAY 14
9 a.m.: “Commit to be Fit,” HHPA
7:30 p.m.: “Picnic,” Marshall Theatre
SUNDAY, MAY 15
4 p.m.: Spring choir concert, Ice Auditorium
