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CLASS NOTES
Blues, was published
in 2000 by Miller
Freeman Books. The
book explores the history
of the blues from
classic delta to Chicago
electric and features a
foreword by B.B. King.
Hansen, better known
as Dr. Demento, has
also written numerous
liner notes and contributed
two chapters
to The Rolling Stone
Illustrated History of
Rock and Roll.
Three Conversations
About Knowing by
Jay Rosenberg ’63,
a work he calls his “first
Platonic dialogue,” was
published by Hackett
in 2000. He is seeking
a publisher for a “scholarly
main course manuscript.”
He is the Taylor
Grandy professor of
philosophy at the
University of South
Carolina–Chapel Hill.
Elsa Warnick ’64 has
illustrated two new children’s
books recently:
Song for the Whooping
Crane and Summerbath,
Winterbath, both by
Eileen Spinelli and
published by Wm. B.
Eerdmans. She lives
in Portland.
Writing Across the
Chemistry Curriculum:
An Instructor’s
Handbook by Jeffrey
Kovac ’70 and Donna
Sherwood was published
by Prentice Hall
in January. He is on
the faculty of the
department of chemistry,
University of
Tennessee–Knoxville.
A textbook on glaucoma
co-written by Marc
Lieberman ’70,
reed magazine
Becker-Shaffer’s
Diagnosis and Therapy
of the Glaucomas,
7th edition, was published
in April 1999
by Mosby-Year Book
Press. He lives in San
Francisco, where he
is clinical professor
of ophthalmology
at the University
of California–
San Francisco.
Matthew Kangas ’71
published two books in
2000: Jim Leedy: Artist
Across Boundaries and
Ryoji Koie, both published
by University
of Washington Press.
He traveled to Osaka,
Japan, for the publication
of Ryoji Koie.
John Hedtke ’77 had
several books released
in 2000, including
Peachtree Made Easy
and MP3 for Musicians.
He lives in Seattle.
“The Costs of Delayed
Emergency Response”
by William Nicholson
’78 appeared in Fire
Engineering in 2000.
A second article,
“Delayed Response
or Failure to Locate a
Patient,” also appeared
in December, in EMS
Best Practices. He is
general counsel to the
Indiana State Emergency
Management Agency.
The Church in an Age
of Danger: Parsons and
Parishioners, 1660–1740
by Donald Spaeth ’78
was published by
Cambridge Press in
2000. He teaches history
and computing at
Glasgow University
and since January 2000
has been director of
the Subject Centre for
History, Classics, and
Archaeology, which
supports teaching and
learning in United
Kingdom universities.
Motiba’s Tattoos: A
Granddaughter’s Journey
into her Indian Family’s
Past by Mira Kamdar
’80 was published by
Public Affairs Books in
September. She lives in
Vancouver, Washington.
Martha Nichols ’80
published a number of
articles in 2000, including
“Home is Where the
Dirt Is” in the Women’s
Review of Books, June
2000; “Charter School:
CBOs Risky Pot o’ Gold”
in Youth Today, June
2000; and “A Package
Deal” in Utne Reader,
December 2000.
Priceless Markets: The
Political Economy of
Credit in Paris, 1660–1870,
co-written by Jean-
Laurent Rosenthal
’84, was recently
released by the
University of Chicago
Press. He is professor
of economics at UCLA.
An interview of poet
Gary Snyder ’51 by
David Lukas ’93 was
published in the winter
2000 issue of California
Wild. He published
two nature guides last
year: Watchable Birds
of Great Basin and Wild
Birds of California. He
is currently revising
another guide, Sierra
Nevada Natural History,
and working on two
other books.
The inaugural issue of
the new poetry review
from City Lights, Lyric,
edited by Mira
Rosenthal ’96,
appeared in February.
The review presents
new poetry by
Americans and new
translations of poets
from around the world.
She is the poetry buyer
for City Lights Bookstore
in San Francisco.
IN MEMORIAM
Lennart “Ole” Benson
’31, September 28, in
Portland. He attended
Reed in 1927–28 and
later attended the
University of Oregon.
He was a public
accountant for more
than 50 years. He was
a member of the
Masons and a Shriner
who volunteered as a
guide at the Shriner’s
Hospital for Crippled
Children. Survivors
include his second wife,
a son, a daughter, two
stepdaughters, seven
grandchildren, and
one great-grandchild.
Franklin Evenson
’34, November 3, in
Milwaukie, Oregon. He
attended Reed for two
years and then transferred
to the University
of Oregon, graduating
in 1936. He taught high
school English in
Eastern Oregon for five
years before enrolling
in the Church Divinity
School of the Pacific
in Berkeley, California.
He was ordained in the
Episcopal Church in
1944 and served in
several churches before
becoming rector at
St. John’s Church in
Milwaukie, Oregon, in
1955. He spent 20 years
in the church’s department
of Christian education,
retiring in 1977,