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Wednesday, September 2, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
U of O: Fall
classes will
be mostly
online
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The University of Oregon
announced last week it will
operate primarily virtual
classrooms this fall due to the
coronavirus pandemic.
U niver s ity Pr e side nt
Michael Schill said August
26, that first-year students
will be welcome to live on
the Eugene campus, The
O re g o n i a n / O r e g o n L i v e
reported. But they, too, will
do most classwork remotely.
<The decision to move
to a predominantly remote
and online form of instruc-
tion in the fall was not easy,=
Schill said in a statement on
the University website. <We
know that the vast majority
of our students are itching to
get back into the classroom.
Many of our faculty and staff
members feel exactly the
same way. However, due to a
confluence of factors we need
to pivot.=
University officials said in
the spring they hoped to open
the campus and resume some-
thing close to normal opera-
tions this fall. But an increase
this summer of new virus
cases in Oregon prompted
administrators to back away
from that plan.
Schill said the experience
of major colleges elsewhere
in the country, which opened
briefly and then shut their
campuses when students con-
tracted the virus, also influ-
enced his decision.
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Tales from a
Sisters
Naturalist
by Jim Anderson
More marvelous
mentors
I must tell you about
my marvelous mentor Pat
Gibson, flight instructor, air-
plane doctor, and Fixed Base
Operator (FBO) of the Bend
Airport.
There isn9t room enough
in this paper for me to share
all the events in my life he
helped me get through, from
purchasing my first Cub to
getting me to my FAA com-
mercial, single-engine pilot
rating.
He went with me on my
first cross-country flight.
We had gassed up my old
Korean War-surplus Piper
Cub, and Pat had settled
in the canvas back seat to
watch. I was up front prepar-
ing to do all the flight work,
and away we went into the
wild blue yonder. About an
hour into the flight he sud-
denly smacked me on the
back of my head with his
chart board and shouted,
<Where did you say we9re
going?=
Rubbing my sore spot,
I shouted back, <Weed,
California!=
To which he responded,
<OK, but we9re going to
have to gas up in Burns!=
Throughout my entire
flying career I was always
lost. Except for the time I
spent most of the day in a
World War II Schweitzer
training sailplane achieving
my five-hour soaring badge.
At 4 hours, 45 minutes
into the flight I was at 12,000
feet above sea level (ASL)
over Brothers. I couldn9t
believe it, but a huge, adult
female golden eagle pulled
up alongside me, and I
thought she winked at me
and shouted, <Nice going!=
In those wonderful life-
changing times, Phil Brogan
asked me one day if I wanted
to accompany him to Camp
Hancock where he had been
asked to give a <Sermon on
Red Hill= 4 a lecture on
Central Oregon geology he
put together for campers and
staff.
Anything Phil suggested
to me I accepted 4 whole-
heartedly and immediately
4 and away we went. I
had no idea what Camp
Hancock was, or where it
was. But I soon discov-
ered it was operated by The
Oregon Museum of Science
and Industry (OMSI), and
located right near the John
Day River close to Clarno.
What a trip! All the way
from Bend to Hancock Phil
was busy pointing out vol-
canic and ice age wonders
along the route.
In the time Phil and I
were there, I fell in love
with everything about sci-
ence, geology, education
and OMSI. Phil and I did a
picture page for The Bulletin
about the camp, which even-
tually led to my becoming
the staff naturalist, teacher
and bus-driver for the
museum for six magnificent
years.
During those wonderful
years I had one job that was
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Of a certain age...
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PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON
In the longhouse of Chief Lalooska at OMSI.
my responsibility and mine Ariel, Washington, where
alone: On the last Saturday we would enter the land
of each month I would take of the Pacific Northwest
the old OMSI Ford bus, the Indians inside the longhouse
<Space Cruiser,= fill it with of legend keeper and wood-
children and a few adults carver, Chief Lalooska.
and deliver them to the train
Little did I know how
station in Portland.
much that masterful story-
Once everyone was teller would impact my life,
onboard the train I9d and those near and dear to
drive on up to Woodland me.
Washington, greet the train
Part III of Jim Anderson9s
as it pulled into the station, retrospective will appear in
reload the kids and adults next week9s edition of The
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