October 2000   

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to include in this October issue of “The Chronicle” a few snapshots taken at our recent Rededication of Thompson Hall. On Saturday, September 23, we were blessed with a beautiful day and the clarion call of the Border Highlanders and drums for the morning ceremony. President Rawlins, Regents Rafael Stone and Matt Moore performed the ribbon cutting, and we enjoyed remarks by Richard Thompson and Laura Thompson McClure, son and daughter of Albert Thompson; President Rawlins; and Professor David Stratton, whose research led to Thompson’s Hall’s inclusion on the National Registry of Historic Buildings.

This issue also features once again the accomplishments of our faculty, students, and staff, and we have included this month a few items about the accomplishments of our recent alumni, as we hope to do in future issues.

The rededication events marked also the first meeting of the College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council, a group of faculty representatives and prominent friends and alumni of the College who will advise our college administration on a variety of matters that affect our relationships to our public constituencies. Attending the meeting on September 22 were Burdena Pasenelli, who co-chairs the council with me, Gordon Bryson, Phyllis Campbell, Richard Daugherty, William Ehrlich, Daniel Fine, Prem Kumar, and Leigh Stowell.

Faculty representatives and ex-officio staff attending were: LeRoy Ashby, Frances McSweeney, Amy Wharton, Kay Hall, Sharon Hatch, Kathy Pearson, Jeff Puckett, Kori Thol, and Marina Tolmacheva.

In a few weeks, members will select subcommittee chairs for the College Development, Student Recruitment/Career Placement, and Public Relations and Information subcommittees. The meeting followed my presentation to the WSU Foundation Trustees on the work of the College. Attending council members expressed great enthusiasm for the future of the College and even greater enthusiasm for working with our faculty and administrators to promote Liberal Arts education and research.

If you have suggestions for ways in which the College Advisory Council might help your department develop more productive relationships with our potential students, their potential employers, and our friend and alumni supporters, please let me or one of our faculty representatives on the Council know.

Finally, please take a moment to note our new, non-tenure faculty in Liberal Arts, who are listed on page 8 of this issue, and to review also our College calendar. October brings a great variety of musical, artistic, and literary events. I hope that your schedule will allow you to attend and enjoy.

Barbara Couture
Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Speech and Hearing Sciences major Lisa Whitefoot received the Creighton Scholarship for Native American Students in Allied Health, as well as the Plateau Native American Scholarship.

John Brewer (Foreign Languages), the new president of the Washington Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German, received a scholarship from the Goethe Institute to attend a week-long immersion workshop for teachers of German on Flathead Lake in Montana in August. He will represent Washington State University as official delegate to the Triennial of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest scholarly honorary society in the nation, in Philadelphia this month.

The American Sociological Association Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance recently inaugurated an “outstanding article” award from the section, to be given out every other year. The award is named the James F. Short, Jr. Award after Jim Short (Sociology, emeritus).

Ella Inglebret (Speech and Hearing Sciences) produced a multimedia CD-ROM module entitled “Diverse Voices: Native American Perspectives on Human Service Delivery” as part of the Cultural Interfacing Project funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Steve Burkett (Sociology), director of the WSU Ronald C. McNair Achievement Program funded by the U.S. Department of Education, announced that the program has been renewed for a second year beginning October 1. This program prepares promising low-income, first semester college students and underrepresented students for eventual graduate doctoral study.

Steve was reelected to chair the Western Name Exchange. This is a consortium of 26 doctoral granting institutions in the West that exchange names of promising prospective graduate students from underrepresented groups.

Charles Neufeld (Music, Music Education Coordinator) will present a workshop titled “Building Understandings of the Past: Enriching Historical Study with Music” at the 2000 Convention of the National Council for the Social Studies, November 16-19 in San Antonio, Texas. In addition, Neufeld was recently named conductor of the Idaho- Washington Concert Chorale, the oldest community choral ensemble in Southeastern Washington. Under Neufeld’s direction the chorale will present nine concerts in their 2000-2001 season with the theme “Music from the Heart.”

Ron Medina (MFA ‘98) is visiting lecturer at the University of Idaho College of Art and Architecture teaching art history.

Patty Sias (Communication) won a “Top Four” paper award in organizational communication from the National Communication Association. Patty’s paper, “From Friends to Coworkers: Narratives of Workplace Friendship Deterioration,” was chosed from among 72 submitted papers. She will present her paper at the November NCA annual convention in Seattle.

Chris Stanley (MFA ’91), now a professor of ceramics at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas, had a one- man show “Chris Stanley & the Kohler Project” at the University.

This summer at the 12th World Saxophone Congress in Montreal, Quebec, Julie Anne Wieck (Music and Theatre Arts) performed the world premiere of “Dialogue III,” a piece commissioned and written for Wieck, soprano, Karen Roll Gardener, alto saxophone, and Carol Miyamoto, piano. She also presented a workshop on “Healthy Vocal Technique” that month for the Oregon Music Teachers National Association at Eastern Oregon University.

MoshePui-Yan Lam (Sociology, graduate student) has been selected as the graduate recipient of the Coalition for Women Students Scholarship for 2000-2001. The award is given annually to one undergraduate and one graduate student on the basis of academic achievement, financial need, non-academic activities and future goals.

Gene Rosa (Sociology) was quoted in the Seattle Times on the social ramifications of the new Web site MyLackey.com that offers services for almost anything: waiting in line, picking up dry cleaning, car detailing, house cleaning, laundry, errands, sending valentines, and much more. In June Gene gave the invited presentation “Public Acceptability of Nuclear Power as a Solution to Global Warming” at the workshop “Expanding Nuclear Energy in a Greenhouse World,” at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation.

David Sonnenfeld (Sociology, Tri-Cities) was quoted in a special report on “Pulp Facts: paper, pollution & the press,” in the July/August issue of Extra!, the magazine of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), the media watch group.

The fall Art a la Carte series began last week with a presentation by Michael Delahoyde (English) about “What Science Fiction Films Keep Telling Us.” Michael showed film clips as he assessed the value of science fiction and the genre’s commentaries about human stupidity and dehumanization. Among the films included in his talk are the features to be shown in VPLAC’s Science Fiction Film Festival.

Angelique Grant (Communication Ph.D candidate) has accepted the position of director of development for the Princeton-Blairstown Center at Princeton University. The Center offers outdoor-adventure, experiential education to urban youth.

Amy Mooney (Fine Arts, Art History) was notified that the College Arts Association awarded her honorable mention in the Professional Development Fellowship Program, which helps students bridge the gap between their graduate studies and professional careers.

Mary Blair-Loy (Sociology) will be giving an invited presentation to the Families, Inequalities and Poverty Workshop at the Department of Sociology, University of Washington, on October 23. Her talk is entitled “The Cultural Constructions of Family Schemas.”

In October Don Dillman (Sociology) will present the opening keynote address to the Fifth International Conference on Social Science Methodology sponsored by the International Sociological Association in Cologne, Germany.

Rachel Halverson (Foreign Languages) will present a paper entitled “Fragments of the Past: Reconstituting an East German Childhood in Stephan Krawczyk’s Das irdische Kind” at the German Studies Association in Houston in October. She has also been invited to serve as a commentator on the panel “The Frankfurt School Revisited” on Oct. 5.

Steven Kale (History) is giving a paper entitled “The Reconstitution of Aristocratic Sociability Abroad: Salons and the Emigration” at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, in November at UCLA, and another entitled “High Society and the Organization of French Political Life in the Early Nineteenth Century,” at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies in March 2001 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

After attending the tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in Vienna in April as an invited expert observer, Otwin Marenin (Political Science /Criminal Justice) was a guest of the International Scientific Advisory and Professional Council of the UN Crime Prevention And Criminal Justice Programme at an international conference on Countering Terrorism through Enhanced International Cooperation in Courmayeur, Italy, in September.

Suzanne Mary Julin (graduate student, History) presented a paper entitled “The Magnet that Draws: Art, Landscape, and Tourism in the Black Hills of South Dakota” at the Ninth Annual Symposium of the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming in Laramie on September 29. The subject of the symposium was “Packaging Places: Imagining, Remembering, and Promoting Landscapes.”

Matthew Godfrey (graduate student, History) received the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Upper Division and Graduate Student Summer Award to help fund his dissertation research. This award goes to students doing research on the Intermountain West.

During winter break, Matthew Guterl (Comparative American Cultures) will be an associate postdoctoral fellow in the Slavery and Abolition Project at the Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University.

Carol Ivory (Fine Arts) gave two papers, “Contemporary Sculpture in the Marquesas Islands” and “Revisiting Late Nineteenth Century Sculpture in the Marquesas Islands,” at Pacific 2000, an International Congress of Easter Island and Pacific Studies in Kamuela, Hawaii in August.

Lance LeLoup (Political Science) delivered a paper entitled “Have Parliaments Influenced Budget Policy during the Democratic Transition?: A Comparative Study” at the International Political Science Association Triennial World Congress in Quebec City, Canada in August. He also had an article published entitled “Budgeting in Slovenia” in the journal Public Budgeting and Finance in the fall 2000 issue. The article has been reprinted in the new book “Slovenia: On the Edge of the European Union” edited by Ferfila and Phillips.

The University of Idaho Prichard Art Gallery was the venue for shows by Ross Coates (Fine Arts). One, entitled “About Ten Years,” was hung downstairs, while on the balcony his show from the Gritman Medical Center Permanent Collection, “For Marina, With Love,” was displayed.

Michael Myers (Philosophy) recently attended the 12th International Congress of Vedanta at Miami University of Ohio, where he presented the paper “Is Brahman God?” and chaired a session on Vedantic epistemology. His paper was a synopsis of the argument from his book Brahman: A Comparative Theology (forthcoming from Curzon Press of London).

American Studies graduate students William Takamatsu Thompson and Ednie Garrison will present papers at the national American Studies Association conference this month in Detroit. American Studies graduate faculty member T.V. Reed (English) will also present at the conference. The conference will mark the beginning of Reed’s tenure as chair of the ASA Committee on American Studies Programs. E. San Juan, Jr. (Comparative American Cultures) will chair a panel on “Labor and Culture” at the convention. San Juan has also been invited to offer a special seminar on Cultural Studies at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, next spring.

Alvie McNair, a senior in the School of Communication’s Public Relations emphasis, was awarded the Susie Clayton Memorial Scholarship from the Puget Sound PRSA chapter. This scholarship is a statewide competition for PR students who are also minorities. Alvie’s award was $1,500, the top in the state. Great news!

A Web study guide by Paul Brians (English) for the opera “La Traviata” is one of three links listed on the PBS Great Performances Web site. You can find his at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/traviata.html, and theirs at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/traviata/resources.html

Azfar Hussain (English doctoral student) presented a paper called "Toward a Political Economy of Land, Labor, Language, and the Body" at the International Gala Conference on "Marxism 2000" (organized by the journal Rethinking Marxism) at the University of Massachussetts-Amherst in September. After the conference, he was interviewed on the topic of contemporary Marxism by a left media group based in Ontario. At an international conference organized by the Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies to be held in New Orleans in November, Hussain will present a paper called "Deconstructing the Mathematics and Metaphorics of Time and the Law of Value: Toward a Political Economy of Colonial Temporality." He will present his paper "The Political Economy of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Political Economy: Lenin Today" at the 2000 Western States Composition Conference at the University of Utah this month.

An article entitled “Americans Have Positive Image of the Environmental Movement” by Riley Dunlap (Sociology) was published in the April 2000 issue of Gallup Poll Monthly.

Jim Short (Sociology, emeritus) published “Technology, Risk Analysis, and the Challenge of Social Control” in Contemporary Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honor of Gilbert Geis, edited by H.N. Pontel and D. Shichor.

Michael Delahoyde (English) had an article published in the Chaucer Review on the poetic use of names in Troilus and Criseyde and another piece published on a Web festschrift in honor of his Chaucer professor from the University of Michigan.

Mary Bloodsworth (Women’s Studies/Philosophy) and Kendal Broad (Ph.D. alumna, Sociology and presently assistant professor at University of Florida) have had a co-authored article accepted by Feminist Teacher, entitled “FemiQueer Pedagogies: ‘Lesbian/Gay’ Studies in Postmodern Women’s Studies.”

A recent article by Otwin Marenin (Political Science/Criminal Justice), “The Role of Bilateral Support for Police Reform Processes: The Case of the United States,” appeared in the journal International Peacekeeping and in Peacebuilding and Police Reform, edited by T.T. Holm and E.B. Eide.

Susan Swan (General Education) has had a monograph she co-authored in 1995, “Breve Historia de la Sequia (Drought) en Mexico,” cited in Ross Couper-Johnston’s book El Niño. She is also listed in the International Biographical Centre’s 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century and in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World 2001, Who’s Who in American 2000 and 2001 and Who’s Who of American Women, 2000-2001.

An article by Pui-Yan Lam (Sociology, graduate student), co-authored by Thomas Rotolo (Sociology), entitled “Re-Examining the Relationship between Religiosity and Life Satisfaction” appeared in the 2000 issue of Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (volume 11).

Tracey Sherard (English) published “Parcival in the Forest of Gender: Wagner, Homosexuality, and the Waves,” in Virginia Woolf: Turning the Centuries. Her article “Women’s Classic Blues in Toni Morrison’s Jazz” was published in the April 2000 online edition of Genders, and her published essay, “Sonny’s Bebop: Baldwin’s ‘Blues Text” as Intracultural Critique” will be reprinted in the new edition of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.

Azfar Hussain's (English doctoral student) article called "Reading Spivak Reading the Wor(l)d: Conundrums and Crises in Metropolitan Postcolonial Theory," solicited for Six Seasons Review, will appear in its forthcoming issue, while his essay on Indian English Literature has been solicited for an anthology to be published by Atlantic Books, Delhi, India. Yet another essay, titled "Joy Harjo: Her Poetics as Praxis," is currently in press for publication in Wicazö Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies.

Until Oct. 15  “The American Vision” and “Morris Graves: Instruments for a New Navigation,” concurrent exhibits, Museum of Art.

Until Oct. 27  Fine Arts Gallery II, “Glen Grishkoff Regional Ceramics.”

Oct. 3  Jazz Concert, Horace-Alexander Young (vocal) and Gregory Yasinitsky (saxophone), Kimbrough Concert Hall, 8 p.m.

Oct. 4  Anthropology Colloquium, “Prehistoric Southwestern Cannibalism: A Critical Examination of Hypotheses,” William Lipe, WSU, College 135, 12:10 p.m.

Oct. 5  Faculty Chamber Music, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.

Oct. 7  Future Cougar Day Jazz Band, Bryan Hall Theatre, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 10  Jazz Concert: Big Band I and VoJazz, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 8 p.m.

Oct. 11  Anthropology Colloquium, “A Medieval Odyssey: The Citadel of Carssonne, SW France,” Robert Ackerman, WSU, College 135, 12:10 p.m.

Oct. 12  Solstice Wind Quintet, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.

Oct. 12  Art a la Carte, “Art of the Madrigal,” Lori Wiest, CUB Cascade 123, noon.

Oct. 16-Dec. 15  Museum of Anthropology Exhibit, “Indian Summers,” Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for WSU’s Dad’s Weekend. Opening lecture, Oct. 24, 4 p.m.

Oct. 17  Orchestra, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.

Oct. 18-21  Student Play Festival, Daggy Hall, Wadleigh Theatre, 8 p.m.

Oct. 18  Anthropology Colloquium, “Archaeological Research Needs for Long-Term Cultural Resource Stewardship,” Darby Stapp, Director, Hanford Cultural Resources Laboratory, College 135, 12:10 p.m.

Oct. 20  Vocal Extravaganza, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.

Oct. 23-Dec. 15  Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Museum Gallery. Opening reception Oct. 26, Fine Arts Aud., 6 p.m.

Oct. 24  Museum of Anthropology Exhibit Lecture, “Indian Summers: Washington State College and the Nespelem Art Colony,” Jeff Creighton, Anthropology Museum, 4 p.m.

Oct. 24  Faculty Recital, Susan Chan, piano, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.

Oct. 24  Comparative American Cultures Film Series, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” Bill Pincheon discussion leader, Wilson 13, 7 p.m.

Oct. 25  Anthropology Colloquium, TBA, College 135, 12:10 p.m. to 1

Oct. 26  Fine Arts Faculty Exhibit Reception, 6 p.m. Opening lecture, “Digital Imaging and the Making of Art,” Paul Lee, Fine Arts Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 27, 28  Northwest Regional Broadcasting Conference hosted by the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication, sponsored by AERho, national broadcasting honor society.

Oct. 28  Choral Festival, Kimbrough Music Building, all day. Final concert, Bryan Hall Theatre, 7 p.m.

Oct. 31-Nov. 3  Fine Arts Gallery II, Day of the Dead, traditional Mexican celebration exhibit.

Nov. 1  Anthropology Colloquium, “The 13th and 14th Centuries A.D. on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico: The Bandelier Archaeological Excavation Project in Retrospect,” Tim Kohler, WSU, College 135, 12:10 p.m.

“It’s college broadcasting at its best!” The Edward R. Murrow School of Communication has been selected as this year’s host of the Northwest Regional Broadcasting Conference. The conference is sponsored by AERho, a national broadcasting honor society.

The Regional Conference will take place October 27th and 28th. Broadcasting students from around the Northwest are traveling to the Murrow School where they will have a chance to network and meet various broadcast professionals from around the nation. Representatives from news, production, sales, and film will be speaking in different sessions about their real world experiences.

The Conference concludes with a regional awards banquet involving every area of broadcasting. Winners will then have a chance to compete nationally in Los Angeles next spring!

The broadcasters of the Murrow School are well on their way to a great fall 2000!

A collection of portraits and landscapes painted in the 1930s and ‘40s on the Colville Indian Reservation will be on display at the Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University from October 16 to December 15. The exhibit, entitled “Indian Summers,” will be open to the public Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, October 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for WSU’s Dad’s Weekend celebration.

In keeping with a 1930s national trend for artists to gather in congenial groups to work, Washington State College established an artists’ colony at Nespelem, Washington. Under the tutelage of the colony organizers, professors of art Worth Griffin and George Laisner, a dozen or so artists gathered each summer from 1937 to 1941. The 20 paintings selected for the display are primarily portraits of members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. They are all the work Griffin and two students, Anne Harder-Wyatt, now of Ritzville, and Ruth Kelsey of Bellingham, who attended several sessions. Most of the exhibit paintings are a part of the Griffin Collection, a part of the WSU Museum of Art’s permanent collection and the rest were borrowed from the artists and their families.

The opening lecture, scheduled for Tuesday, October 24 at 4 p.m. will be given by Jeff Creighton, author of a book about the Nespelem artists colony. Creighton, whose book is also titled “Indian Summers,” is a writer and historian with the Washington State Archives, Eastern Region, which is located on the Eastern Washington University campus at Cheney, Washington. His book is being published by WSU Press.

The restoration of Thompson Hall was completed last spring and its rededication was Sept. 23. The renovation has created a lovely and very functional facility to house the dean’s office and the Foreign Languages department. If you have not yet made a visit to see the changes, please feel welcome to come when you can. Many thanks to all of you who worked so hard and gave of your time to make this day so memorable.

Dean Barbara Couture

 President V. Lane Rawlins was among those who addressed the gathering of over a hundred faculty, students, administrators and friends.

  Richard S. Thompson, from Bethesda, Maryland, and Laura Lee Thompson McClure, from Princeton, New Jersey, son and daughter of Albert W.Thompson, the building’s namesake, traveled to Pullman to attend, as did Laura’s husband Donald.

Richard spoke at the ribbon cutting and they all attended many of the lectures and events. In the afternoon, Thompson and the McClures visited the new language lab, where they tried out the interactive Spanish in structional programs.

  Restoration architect Cima Malek-Aslani of Seattle gave a presentation describing the challenges–like multiple ventilation and heating systems– that were met in restoring Thompson Hall, and the design goals–like emphasizing the vertical quality of the windows–that were achieved in the project.

We are inspired in particular by the vision of our first President, Enoch Bryan, who praised this fledging university as a “college of science and technology, shot through and through with the spirit of the liberal arts.”

I would be hard pressed to describe our commitment to the liberal and the practical more eloquently than did President Bryan on that sunny day in June in 1895.

“If we are true to our trust,” he said in his dedicatory address, “we will here offer the best that science has to offer. We will here lead the student deep into the mysteries of nature. We will bring to his aid linguistic and literary and philosophical study and historical research. We will help to develop him into a well-rounded, a full-orbed man. New subjects of study, new methods of work need bring to him no narrower culture—rather a broader view and a truer grasp of life and things.”

And nothing could be more true today, where with new information technology we can learn new subjects instantly, it would seem, and, if we so choose, talk as easily and freely to a friend or colleague on the other side of the world as we can to the man or woman standing next to us right now.

We live in world of unparalleled scientific advances and tremendous potential for prosperity for all, if our vision is grounded in the values that preserve our humanity and protect our future together. There has been no other time when it was more important for our next generation, the students at this great university, to develop that “broader view” as President Bryan has said “and a truer grasp of life and things.”

Our faculty and staff of the College of Liberal Arts pledge to you today our renewed vision of a university education that prepares every student not only to prosper in a complex world that grows stronger and closer with advances in science and technology, but also to live and work together in peace and harmony in a global community of great cultural diversity.

And so with this hope in our hearts, we are delighted to join with our new President, our University leadership, the son and daughter of Albert Thompson, our Regents, and the Pullman community to celebrate this building’s restoration and the values it has nurtured and still rekindles in us today.

An excerpt from Dean Barbara Couture’s rededication remarks. Sept. 23, 2000

Thank you to all Thompson Topics presenters whose fascinating presentations enhanced our understanding of the history of Thompson Hall, Washington State University and the period around the turn of the century.

They were Bonnie Frederick, “Women in the Era of Progress, Glory, and Electricity;” Henry Matthews, “Thompson Hall: The Architecture of Noble Ideals;” Thomas Kennedy, “Confucianism, Feminism, and Imperialism in 1890s China;” Raymond Sun, “Catholicism, Marxism, and the Popularization of Piety in Imperial Germany;” Elwood Hartman, “la Belle Epoque;” Birgitta Ingemanson, “The Grand Old Lady: A Multimedia Interpretation of Thompson Hall;” Janice Rutherford, “The Inland Empire Comes of Age;” Kim Andersen, “The Modern Break Through;” and David Stratton, “Thompson Hall through the Prism of Time.”

Thanks also to Melissa Alles, technical coordinator for the series.

Marina Tolmacheva, Associate Dean

Fine Arts alumni are meeting success: Becca Anderson ‘98 showed her sculptural paintings in a one-person show at the Seattle Art Gallery; Jordan Riddle ‘00 exhibited at Spokane’s Colburn Art Gallery. Chris Eckard ‘93 is vice president of Digital Hollywood Institute of Media Arts in Santa Monica, Calif., and Scott Penningroth ‘94 works on commercials and films at Rhythm and Hues studios (creators of “Babe” and “The Coke Bears”) in Los Angeles.

Miles Pepper ‘94 has completed four kinetic sculptures for the new “Stellar Cove” coastal exhibit at the Oregon Zoo in Portland. Recently he has been awarded commisssions for sculptures from the Airport Marina Center, Oxnard, Calif., the Portland International Airport, the Corvallis Riverfront Commemorative Park, and the Sierra Community College, in Rocklin, Calif.