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Return. Reflect. Reconnect.
Character Builder
Preacher and Doc
Message from the President
Individual Action, Collective Wisdom
On Palatine Hill
A Passion for Math and Chinese Drives Ratte Award Winner
Katie Keith, a mathematics major and a Chinese minor, received this spring’s Rena J. Ratte Award, the undergraduate college’shighest honor. A native of Bozeman, Montana, Keith embodies the award’s criteria of “a graduating senior who has pursued and achieved the utmost in excellence while attending Lewis & Clark.”
Alan Finn Named CFO
Theatre Prof, Law Prof Named Top Teachers
Exploring Careers in Munich
New Home, New Leader for Career Center
Congratulations, Graduates of 2015
“I believe there’s not a college in America that is more appropriately named for all the searches that we prize, that we love. You’re here, at Lewis & Clark, arguably, the quintessence of what works in American education … small liberal arts colleges. You all chose right!”
—Ron Suskind
Board Updates
Homecoming: Focus on Football
Leadership and Support
Philanthropy Leadership Dinner
Scholarship Luncheon
On the Road President Visits Iceland
Turning Knowledge Into Action: Internships as a Rite of Passage
Alumni News
Alumni Weekend 2015 Sizzles
Nearly 1,000 alumni, friends, and family braved Portland’s record-breaking heat to attend Alumni Weekend.
Class Notes, Fall 2015
This edition of Class Notes includes submissions through June 15, 2015.
Profiles
New Hampshire’s School Psychologist of the Year
The Book Keeper
Bookshelf
Becoming Oregon: From Expedition to Exposition
Robert Hamm BA ’70, MAT ’74 shares 150 newspaper accounts, mostly from the East Coast, which featured stories about Oregon during the 100 years between the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1804-06) and the Lewis and Clark Exposition (1905).
Mossy Brae Press, 2015. 565 pages.
College Calculus: A One-Term Course for Students with Previous Calculus Experience
Roger Nelson, professor emeritus of mathematics, coauthors a text that provides students with a solid foundation in single-variable calculus and prepares them for the next course in college-level mathematics.
Mathematical Association of America, 2015. 388 pages.
A Battle of Lake Champlain: A “Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory”
(Campaigns and Commanders Series)
John Schroeder BA ’65, professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, recounts the War of 1812’s early years, the failed U.S. invasions of Canada in 1812 and 1813, and the ensuring naval race for control of Lake Champlain in 1814. University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. 184 pages.
Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together
Kayla Fioravanti BA ’09 chronicles the uplifting true story of the deep friendship between a cat and her girl that spans three countries. one of the chapters talks about Fioravanti’s experiences at Lewis & Clark and her overseas study program to Ireland.
Selah press, 2015. 164 pages.
Mosaic Garden Projects
Mark Brody BA ’87 offers a primer on the fundamentals of mosaic along with step-by-step instructions for the creation of 25 decorative yet functional projects.
Timber Press, 2015. 256 pages.
The Book of Nonsense
(Forbidden Books Series, Volume 1)
David Michael Slater MAT ’94 writes a young-adult novel about Dexter and Daphna Wax, who work to unravel the secrets of The Book of Nonsense and discover the truth about their own extraordinary destiny.
Zharmae, 2015. 208 pages.
Potsherds of Peace: Poems, Prose, and Philology
Allen Reed JD ’74 publishes a second book of his personal writings, organized around the idea of peace.
Self-published, 2014. 131 pages.
Baby’s on Fire
Liz Prato BA ’89 presents Baby’s on Fire, a collection of 12 stories set in the West with strong female protagonists who are trying to find their way in a world where their ties of intimacy are damaged and broken.
Fixing the Books: Secrecy, Literacy, and the Perfectibility in Indigenous New Mexico
(Resident scholar series)
Erin Debenport BA ’94 presents the research she conducted on an indigenous language literacy effort within a New Mexico Pueblo community, and the potential of that literacy to compromise Pueblo secrecy.
School for Advanced Research press, 2015. 174 pages.
Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy: Bridging Emotion, Societal Context, and Couple Interaction
Carmen Knudson-Martin, professor of counselling psychology, pens a guide for clinical work with troubled couples. Designed for practitioners, it integrates real-world knowledge of the intersections of gender, culture, power, and identity in relationships with empirical findings on the neurology of attraction.
Springer, 2015. 153 pages.
In Memoriam
Friends of Lewis & Clark Remembered
Afterword
Why should planet Earth care about (non-planet) Pluto?
Galleries
Preacher and Doc
Alumni Weekend 2015 Sizzles
Scholarship Luncheon
Philanthropy Dinner
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