PSU Magazine Fall 2004

AL UM NOTES recently serving as commun ica- Washington County She for- unexpired term for Oregon stale tions and energy services man- merly was a private aLLOrney representative in District 32 Magic and Magicians, Uncle ager. Skarra enjoys traveling and specializing in domestic rela- (Cannon Beach). Boone previ- 11y fishing. Lions and family cases and was ously worked as a legislative Mike's Guide to the Real Oregon honored by the WashingLOn assistant for Rep. Elaine Hopson. Coast, Letters to Uncle Mike, and '7~ County Domestic Violence More Letters lo Uncle Mike. lnlervemion Council, a group '80 Richard Archer has published she helped found 11 years ago. '7L1 a science fiction novel, Tractrix, 78 Gloria Reich MS '82, PhD '88 is the first in a series called Seeds on the faculty at Oregon Health Gale Castillo MA is co-owner of Civilization. (See page 5 for & Science University (OHSU), at Cascade Employment Assis- more information.) Archer has Rebecca "Becky" Batke is where she is a clinical associate tance Program and serves as been working in the information account manager at Freescale professor in the department of executive direcLOr of the His- technology field since graduat- SemiconducLOr. She lives in oLOlaryngology and head and panic Metropolitan Chamber. ing from PSU and has had more North Plains. neck surgery. She serves on the Castillo was recognized as the than 50 articles published in Serafina Salisbury is medical management team for the joint Small Business Administration's various technical magazines. OHSU-OMSl (Oregon Museum Minority Business Advocate of records coordinaLOr at Hospice of Science and Industry) project the Year for Western Oregon '76 Family Care, Inc., in Sun City, called "Dangerous Decibels." and Southwest Washington. She Arizona. Reich and her husband are is a member of the PSU sailors, as well as active car hob- Foundation Board. Nancy Campbell is a circuit '79 byisls, owning two prewar Bent- Paul Skarra retired from coun judge in WashingLOn leys. They have two children, Clatskanie People's Utility County. Campbell has served on Deborah "Debby" Boone has four grandchildren, three cats the bench since 1987 and was District after 23 years, most the first woman judge in been appointed Lo fill the and two grand-dogs. A passion to tell the story of Oregon Judaism I T STARTED WITH A SPEECH-which, if you know Gloria Lohman Feves '72, will come as no surprise. Since her salad days winning speech tournaments at West Linn High School, this natural-born reporter has been investigating the world around her. And telling others about it. "I've always wanted to ask a question, get an answer and discuss it," says Lohman Feves, "and l couldn't get enough of getting a message across. l want to shout to everybody." Fast forward through a career as a learning specialist and raising a family to the mid- 1990s. With a desire to keep contributing, Lohman Feves enrolled in a community ser– vice workshop offered by the Women's Divi– sion of the Jewish Federation of Portland. For their final , participants presented an idea for a community project. Naturally, Lohman Feves decided to tell a story. years, these rabbis married, divorced , bristed, and buried members of the Jewish community. I thought the story would be great to be told through their eyes." For anyone else, the idea might have ended with a speech. But naturally, Lohman Feves couldn't stop telling the story. Eventually her enthusiasm stirred others. Some served as mentors. Others contributed seed money. Oregon Public Broadcasting signed on to provide technical expertise and to air the finished piece. That left just one hurdle– raising $80,000 to shoot, edit, and produce the documentary. ln her speech, she proposed a documen– tary telling the history of Oregon's Jews– why they came, what they found, how they changed through the years. Her twist was that she wanted to present the story through Gloria Lohman Feves '72 is working with OPB's Jeff Dou– glas to get her documentary, "The Three Rabbis," produced. Lohman Feves intensified her efforts, telling the story of her documentary to acquaintances, potential funders, anyone, in fact, who would listen. For her birthday, she even asked friends to skip presents and instead donate to OPB, which holds in trust any contributions earmarked to "The Three Rabbis" project. Her efforts have raised more than half the amount needed. And Lohman Feves has no intention of slowing down until the project is done , no matter how long it the eyes of three prominent and long-serving Oregon rabbis-an orthodox, consen 1 ative, and reform. "This is an opportunity to tell Judaism from three com– pletely different views," says Lohman Feves. "For the past 40 22 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2004 takes. But why commit to such an arduous undertaking? "The answer's not too deep, " says Lohman Feves. "I see life as stories, and I wanted to tell this one. It's fascinating." -Melissa Steineger