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Oregon Humanities: Summer 2009
New board members
The OCH Board of Directors elected the following three new members at its February 2009 meeting:
Ed Battistella of Ashland has served as professor of English & writing at Southern Oregon University since July 2000. From 2000 to 2006, he also served as dean of the School of Arts & Letters, and in 2007, he was the university’s interim provost. Battistella is coeditor-in-chief of Wiley-Blackwell’s online journal Linguistics and Language Compass and is the author of several books, including Do You Make These Mistakes in English? The Story of Sherwin Cody’s Famous Language School (Oxford University Press, 2008). He has contributed to Oregon Humanities magazine, most recently in the fall 2008 issue on the theme of civility.
Vickie Fleming of Redmond is currently the superintendent of the Redmond School District in Central Oregon. Prior to this, she served as the deputy superintendent for Susan Castillo, the current state superintendent. Fleming has also managed the Mid-Willamette Education Consortium at Chemeketa Community College, youth corrections education programs at Hillcrest and MacLaren facilities, and special programs for Willamette Education Service District. She has also led early childhood policy development for a former Oregon governor.
Rich Wandschneider of Enterprise has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Oregon Humanities magazine since 2007. Wandschneider is the founding director of Fishtrap, Inc., an educational nonprofit that promotes writing and writers in the West. Fishtrap is headquartered in Wallowa County, Oregon, where it produces conferences, workshops, lectures, and classes. In 2008, Wandschneider stepped down as director but continues to work on the campaign to build a new Alvin Josephy Library of Western History and Culture and to establish a Fishtrap Endowment. He writes a regular column for the Wallowa County Chieftain and has written for the Oregonian, High Country News, Portland Magazine, and High Desert Journal.
OCH has an open call for nominations to its Board of Directors posted on its website.
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Oregon Humanities magazine examines topics of broad public interest from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Recent issues of this publication have focused on stuff, nostalgia, and civility. Through good and thoughtful writing, Oregon Humanities magazine enriches our understanding of important subjects and stimulates conversation and reflection among readers, their friends, families, colleagues, and neighbors.
Contributors
Charles Goodrich
After working for many years as a professional gardener, Charles Goodrich presently serves as program director for the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University. His books include a volume of poetry, Insects of South Corvallis, and The Practice of Home: Biography of a House, from which this essay is adapted.
Dmae Roberts
Dmae Roberts is a Peabody award-winning writer and radio producer who is currently working on her memoir, Lady Buddha and the Temple of Ma. She lives in Portland with her husband, Richard, and their twin cats.
John Frohnmayer
A lawyer, author, and ethicist, John Frohnmayer discussed the ideas from this essay for OCH’s Think & Drink program in February 2009. The chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts during the first Bush Administration, he is currently an affiliate professor of liberal arts at Oregon State University and the secretary of OCH’s board of directors.
John Holloran
John Holloran lives in Portland and teaches at Oregon Episcopal School. His last essay for Oregon Humanities magazine was “Home Economics” (Fall/Winter 2007).
John R. Campbell
John R. Campbell is the author of Absence and Light: Meditations from the Klamath Marshes (University of Nevada Press). His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Georgia Review, The Threepenny Review, The North American Review, Northwest Review, and other journals. He teaches writing and environmental cultural criticism at Western Oregon University.
Louise Bishop
Louise M. Bishop is associate professor of literature and associate dean at the University of Oregon’s Robert D. Clark Honors College. An award-winning teacher, she publishes on Middle English and early modern literature and teaches a broad range of classes and topics, ancient through postmodern, for both the honors college and the English department. Her book Words, Stones, and Herbs: the Healing Word in Medieval and Early Modern England was published by Syracuse University Press in 2007.
Mark Perlman
Mark Perlman is a professor of philosophy at Western Oregon University. He is also music director and conductor of the Willamette Falls Symphony in Oregon City and a bassist in the Salem Chamber Orchestra.
Commentary
how are board members selected? just on the recommendation of other board members? is the funding agency consulted? does the governor appoint members?
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | 02 Oct at 01:28 PM
Thanks for these questions! The frocess for board member selection is outlined on this website at http://www.oregonhumanities.org/inside/directors/
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | 03 Oct at 08:49 AM
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