Portland State Magazine Fall 2016

FALL 2016 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 3 Portland State Magazine wants to hear from you. Email your comments to psumag@pdx.edu or send them to Portland State Magazine , Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. We reserve the right to edit for space and clarity. That’s me When I turned to the last page [“Looking Back,” spring 2016 Portland State Maga- zine ], I was stunned. That is me in the picture, second from the left. One of my good friends, Dave Kuchler, is shown on the very bottom of the picture. During my four years at PSU, I had many climbing and kayaking adventures with the Outdoor Program. The picture brought back a flood of great memories, including meeting my wife, Paula, in the program office in 1971. In that picture, I was barely 19 years old. Needless to say the program was a very important part of my PSC/ PSU experience. Trips with Sam McKinney were always great adventures. Sam and the Outdoor Program gave us students experiences that have laid the groundwork for a lifetime of outdoor adventures. Glen Kirkpatrick ’72 Outdoor Program memories So the latest edition of Portland State Magazine arrived in my mailbox, and I’m looking through it and arrive at the inside back cover… hello! I recognize that photo. The student in the middle is Glen Kirkpatrick, and the one in the right-hand corner is Joseph Beattie. I think that the climber is Jon Marshall. However, the date and location listed in the article are incorrect. This photo was taken at the first work- shop, as stated in the article, but that was in 1968 (not 1969), at Horsethief Butte State Park on the Washington side of the Columbia Gorge, just east of The Dalles, and involved only the PSU Outdoor Program, then a fairly small group. The workshop held at Smith Rock in 1969 was a second, much larger event, held in conjunction with the Outdoor Program at Oregon State, and it included Gil Leaf, who was then with Outward Bound. Thank you very much for the article. It was an exceedingly pleasant surprise that brought back a number of sunburned memories. Ellen (Sandberg) Cameron ’71 Challenging high school students I thoroughly enjoyed the article on Senior Inquiry [“Inquiring Minds”] in the spring 2016 Portland State Maga- zine . There is also another dual-credit [high school-University] program at PSU, Challenge. Started 40 years ago, it is the longest running dual-credit pro- gram in Oregon, one of the oldest in the nation, and the only Oregon dual-credit program that has national accreditation. A complement to Senior Inquiry, Challenge targets accelerated students, offering lower-division, catalog-listed courses in computer science, math, history, English, world languages, and honors at 20 area high schools, serving approximately 1,200 students. Our news writing class at Grant High School has won the Columbia Scho- lastic Press Association’s Gold Crown Award the past two years, and our annual Young Historians Conference honors and awards exceptional historical research and writing. Winning papers are submitted to PSU’s digital reposi- tory, PDXScholar, leveraging access to this scholarly work globally. Together, Senior Inquiry and The Challenge Program bring opportunity and the best of PSU to area high school seniors. Sally Hudson ’75 Director of High School Programs College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Portland State University More public art I really enjoyed seeing the public art from PSU alumni [“Art Connection”] in the spring magazine. I also noticed your request for alumni to contact the magazine in case you overlooked their public art. I attended PSU from 1972 to 1976 and studied with James Lee Hanson, Mel Katz, Don Wilson and many others. I am a stone carver and currently have a piece on display in Lake Oswego (pictured here) plus three animal relief sculptures—Wolf, Bear and Musk Ox— in the Oregon Zoo’s Alaska Tundra Exhibit. I recently had a show at the Lan Su Chinese Garden in Northwest Portland. I have been a member of the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gal- lery for a long time and currently have work there. The city of Salem purchased one of my tall basalt sculptures and it is in the sculpture garden outside of the Salem Convention Center. Keep up the good work. Dave Haslett www.orcastone.com Letters