PIP DRIVE GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE
Local business leaders and representatives from Linfield College will look back to the future for the launch of the 36th annual Partners in Progress campaign.
The campaign, a long-standing partnership between Linfield and the McMinnville community, will return to a week-long blitz, similar to the structure of early PIP campaigns. The community fund drive began in the 1950s and adopted the name PIP in 1974.
A breakfast and program will be held for campaign volunteers and Yamhill County leaders Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 a.m. in Nicholson Library at Linfield. It will feature a look at both the history and future of PIP as well as a vocal performance by Chelsea Janzen ’12 accompanied by Gwen Leonard, professor of music. Volunteers will make calls and collect pledge cards from local businesses and individuals during the week-long blitz, Sept. 22-29. The campaign goal is $520,000.
Over the years, contributors to Partners in Progress have supported the college’s vital role in local economic and cultural development, according to Linfield President Thomas L. Hellie.
“We are grateful to the individuals and businesses that support our students and programs,” Hellie said. “Those contributions provide the scholarships and educational resources necessary for Linfield to thrive. With the help of local businesses and individuals, we will continue to provide quality education and to partner with local supporters to strengthen our community.”
The award-winning drive promotes the partnership between Yamhill County and Linfield, and is recognized as a model for outstanding college-community relationships. Community involvement and volunteer support are key to the success of the regionally recognized campaign.
Carole Burcham, retired businesswoman, will chair the PIP steering committee for the second year. PIP campaign gifts will benefit the ongoing relationship between Linfield and Yamhill County by supporting scholarships, events and activities that take place on campus.
This year, 50 volunteers will take part in the program and will contact more than 400 businesses and individuals. Other members of the PIP steering committee assisting Burcham are Kathleen Bernards ’76 and a McMinnville CPA; Chris Browne of Chris Browne Insurance; Wendy Buchheit of Cross and Crown, Inc.; Dan Davison ’03, Davison Auto; John McKeegan of Haugeberg, Reuter, Gowell, Fredericks, Higgins and McKeegan, PC; Sherl Hill of Freelin-Wade; Erin Stephenson of First Federal Savings and Loan; Harold Washington of Washington Roofing Company; and David Wiegan ’85, Mid-Valley Rehabilitation.
Staff members assisting the steering committee are President Hellie; Kurstin Finch Gnehm ’97, director of annual giving; Jodi Kilcup, assistant vice president for college relations; and Bruce Wyatt, vice president for college relations. For more information on the PIP campaign, call 503-883-2492 or visit www.linfield.edu/pip.
MCCARTHYISM TOPIC OF LECTURE
Controversy surrounding the freedom of press in post-World War II America is the focus of an upcoming lecture by journalism historian Ed Alwood.
Alwood will read from “Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press,” on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room in the Jereld R. Nicholson Library.
The reading is free and open to the public as part of the Readings at the Nick series. Alwood will discuss how journalists became targets of anti-Communist supporters during the 1950s and draw parallels with modern conflicts over the rights of journalists to protect their sources.
Alwood has worked in the media throughout his professional career. He has 14 years of experience in broadcast news at WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C., and at the Washington bureau of CNN. He is the author of “Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media,” a book regarded by The New York Times as one of the best of 2009.
His work is published in the Christian Science Monitor and esteemed scholarly journals. Additionally, he worked as a public relations manager at a major financial trade association in Washington for 10 years and later served as a senior public affairs specialist at the Treasury Department.
He received his Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently teaches writing and journalism at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn.
The reading is sponsored by the Linfield Department of Mass Communication, Office of the President and Friends of Nicholson Library.
SCHUCK TO PRESENT FULBRIGHT WORK
For one Linfield College professor, summer vacation was an opportunity to examine agricultural and economic issues abroad.
Eric Schuck, an associate professor of economics, will share his experience teaching in Lebanon in his lecture, “Kefar, Hello, Ca Va – Living Learning and Lecturing in the Levant,” on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 3 p.m. in Jonasson Hall.
As part of the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program, Schuck spent six weeks teaching and developing a curriculum in water resource management at American University in Beirut, Lebanon. He will discuss his teaching and research at American University, as well as postwar reconstruction and economic development in Lebanon. He will also share some of his experiences traveling in the country.
The Fulbright Senior Specialist Program provides professors with short-term opportunities to teach and conduct research around the world.
This is Schuck’s second stint in the Fulbright program. In 2006, he developed curriculum for the Integrated Water Resource Management Program at the University of Western Cape in Capetown, South Africa. That work inspired the development of Linfield’s 2008 January Term course, Post-Apartheid Developmental and Environmental Economics of South Africa.
Schuck graduated with a B.A. in economics from Pacific Lutheran University in 1993, and a master’s from the University of Montana in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from Washington State University in 1999.
The lecture is sponsored by the International Programs Office.
ICEBREAKER OPENS THEATRE SEASON
Linfield College students will kick-off the 2009-10 theatrical season with the annual Student Icebreaker.
Performances will be held Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 24-26, at 8 p.m., and Friday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. and midnight in the Marshall Theatre in Ford Hall at Linfield. The theatre will open 45 minutes early for participants to enjoy music, games and entertainment.
This play may not be suitable for all audiences and contains mature language and subject matter.
Tickets for the performances range from $3 to $5 and prices will be determined by the roll of a die at the door. Seating is general admission.
Following successful runs in previous years, students will present another selection of 30 Neo-Futurist Plays from “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind,” created by Greg Allen and written by The New-Futurists. The play fuses sport, poetry and living-newspaper into a stimulating experience for the audience.
Senior theatre majors William DeBiccari and Jillian Haig will direct an ensemble of actors and one emcee who will perform 30 plays in 60 minutes. The order in which the plays are performed is determined by audience participation each night.
Cast members include Will Bailey, Aaron Granum, Steven Stewart, Chloe Wandler, Kristina Winch, Amanda Wolf and Nick Zimmers, with Jamika Scott as emcee.
HISPANIC HERITAGE DAY PLANNED
Linfield will host Hispanic Heritage Day from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26, in the Oak Grove. The event will celebrate Hispanic culture at Linfield, featuring food, games and entertainment. It is sponsored by the Linfield College Latinos Adelante and Linfield Multicultural Programs Office. For more information, email hhd@linfield.edu.
OBERT EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY
“Cybernetic Landscapes,” work by Liz Obert, associate professor of art, is showing now through Sept. 30 in the Linfield Studio Gallery in the Miller Fine Arts Center.
Obert’s new series began with her fascination with the cultural evolution of society in terms of its relationship with portable technology. “We use devices such as cell phones and cameras to connect to the world, but by doing so we become disconnected and removed from our immediate surroundings,” she said. “I find this behavior is particularly ironic in natural settings where people go to escape their usual hectic lives but are unable to fully disengage.”
Obert has exhibited her work locally and internationally. Obert worked on a new project at an artist residency this summer at CAMAC (The Centre d’Arts, Marnay Art Center) in France. View her work at lizobert.com.
ART EXHIBIT DRAPES GALLERY WALLS
“Assembly, line, image, system,” an exhibition of work by Portland artist Bean Gilsdorf, is on display now through Oct. 10 in the Linfield College Fine Art Gallery in the James F. Miller Fine Arts Center.
Using life-sized prints from 10 different automobiles, Gilsdorf constructs a large scale installation from fabric, paint, dye, bleach and thread that sweeps along the circumference and runs beyond the enclosure of the gallery’s four walls, building a continuum of color and implied motion.
Gilsdorf takes a cue for this exhibition from the French idiom faire la navrette, which references the back-and-forth pass of the shuttle in the loom while weaving cloth. The images of industrially-produced objects on hand-printed and dyed fabric explore formal relationships of line, shape and color. Composed of more than 100 continuous feet of cloth and hung from the ceiling by 220 individual threads, the installation references mass production but retains the allure of the hand-crafted.
FACULTY LEARNING COMMONS SET
Kay Johnson, laboratory coordinator and instructional associate in chemistry, will present “Activities, Games and Checkpoints, Oh My!” at the Faculty Learning Commons on Monday, Sept. 21, at noon in the West Wing of Dillin Hall. Johnson will give examples of activities and games that are currently being used in her January Term CHEM 100 Concepts of Chemistry course. Activities and games are used as hooks for students and they can introduce, reinforce or review topics from the lecture. She will also discuss using checkpoints, questions designed to tell whether students understand lecture material.
OPEN HOUSE PLANNED
An open house will be held for the Counseling Center, Career Services, Community Service and Learning Support Services on Thursday, Oct. 1, from 3-4 p.m. in 124 Walker Hall.
COMMUNITY NEWS
BILL APEL, professor of religion, was elected to the board of directors for The International Thomas Merton Society, a professional and academic group dealing with studies in culture, spirituality and social concerns. Membership involves many scholars and religious leaders from a variety of countries around the globe. Last spring, his article, “Learning to Listen: Thomas Merton, Amiya Chakravarty and the Smith College Students” was published in the Thomas Merton Journal of Great Britain and Ireland. In the recently published Merton Annual, vol. 21 published by Fons Vitae Press, he contributed a chapter to the book, titled “Terrible Days: Merton/Yungblut Letters and the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
CAMPUS CALENDAR
MONDAY, SEPT. 21
Noon: Kay Johnson, “Activities, Games and Checkpoints, Oh My!,” Dillin West Wing
THURSDAY, SEPT. 24
Noon: Chinese conversation table, Dillin
FRIDAY, SEPT. 25
7 p.m.: Volleyball vs. PLU
Today: Men’s golf at Pacific Best Ball
SATURDAY, SEPT. 26
Noon: Women’s soccer vs. Pacific
2 p.m.: Hispanic Heritage Day, Oak Grove
2:30 p.m.: Men’s soccer at Pacific
6 p.m.: Football at Southern Oregon
7 p.m.: Volleyball at Pacific
Today and tomorrow: Men’s golf hosts Linfield Invitational
Today and tomorrow: Women’s golf at Pacific Invitational
SUNDAY, SEPT. 27
Noon: Women’s soccer at Lewis & Clark
2:30 p.m.: Men’s soccer at George Fox
