Strolling through campus on 'People Street'
By Melissa Martin
Of the Emerald
Two weeks ago, student ac
tivists painted a graph on 13th
Avenue to represent defense
budget spending.
In 1970, they barricaded 13th
Avenue with planters to
eliminate vehicle use, petition
ing to rename it "People
Street."
front of the bookstore, a duck
pond next to Gilbert Hall, and
on the front of the Computing
Center building, a waterfall that
only flows when it rains.
"That's what I know from Ger
many and Italy — outside cafes
— and it works," Hegelmann
says.
Along with his People Street
plan, Hegelmenn redesigned
'That's what I know from Germany and Italy
— outside cafes — and it works'
— Gerhard Hegelmann
Today, one University ar
chitecture student wants to br
ing People Street back from the
pages of history.
Gerhard Hegelmann, atten
ding the University as a
Fulbright scholar from Kassel,
Germany, redesigned the
bookstore area as a campus
people-gathering place. The
project earned him first place in
a recent campus design project
sponsored by the architecture
school.
For the Kincaid Street and
13th Avenue campus entrance,
Hegelmann designed a circular
bench and planter with an in
scription of the words, "People
Street," in the brick base.
His redesign includes street
cafes in front of Fall Creek
Bakery, The Kona Cafe and
Guido's, plenty of benches in
Gilbert Hall's courtyard around
a Magnolia theme.
He disagrees with a master
plan submitted by Ron Lov
inger, architecture professor,
which suggests the business
school annex be connected to
the west side of Gilbert Hall.
Hegelmenn says that space
should be preserved as a cam
pus gathering area.
Another architecture graduate
student, who tied for the first
place position, designed a plan
that could easily be integrated
into Hegelmann's.
Daniel Sponn wants the cam
pus to become an arboretum.
Sponn's project suggests
historical markers near the fir
trees which line the Deady Hall
sidewalk and a campus plant
guide for visitors.
“This campus already is an ar
Photo by Michael Clapp
Gerhard Hegelmarm, an architecture student studying at the University on a Fulbright scholarship,
won the a design contest with his plan to revamp 13th Avenue.
boretum. It's used all the time
by students in terms of iden
tification/' Sponn says.
Since 1976, 300 trees have
been planted on campus, and in
10 years the campus will have a
new character, Sponn says.
"One of the reasons people
were attracted to this idea is
because it's so practical," he
says. "It seems like it should
have been done before."
Sponn envisions the Universi
ty arboretum to be better than
the existing one at the Universi
ty of Washington, which is
located as a separate park off
campus.
In addition to his campus ar
boretum designs, Sponn
developed plans for the
Amazon Housing facelift. The
first phase of the project would
begin before fall term, he says.
Phase one includes planting
smaller flowering trees in the
front yards, fruit trees in the
garden areas, groves of trees
and wildflower meadows and
picnic tables and new paths.
As far as Hegelmenn's People
Street plan becoming a reality,
Campus Planner David Rowe,
who looked at the project says it
has both possibilities and
problems.
At 77 she's finally getting her doctorate degree
Photo by Michael Clapp
For Aganetha Toews, a 77-year-old graduate student
receiving her doctorate degree in comparative
literature, it has been a dream long deferred.
By Lois Yoshishige
Of the Emerald
When she accepts her doctoral degree in com
parative literature, Aganetha Toews may recall all those
7 a.m. bus trips from Salem, her husband's constant en
couragement despite two strokes, those "all night'
papers due the next day. But for the 77-year-old
graduate, the diploma will be "a gift, a second chance.
When asked why she decided to get her doctorate
at age 77, Toews said. "It was my husband's fault."
Anyway, in 1962 she wanted to get her doctorate at
the University, but her late husband was ill at that time
so she decided to go to Monmouth. "I had buried that
dream," she said. But in 1979, after she had been mar
ried a year to her second husband, Cearhard Toews, he
said "I want you to go to the U of O to get your doc
torate." She remembers saying, "What? Me? NOW?"
She's been interested in education for her whole
life, and has been teaching about 48 years, the last 31 at
the Salem Academy, a parochial school. She was
teaching English, French and German.
She says since she is a teacher ("when you're
teaching you're always studying") she had no difficulty
getting back into the college studying habit. "I like to
study. You never learn more than when you teach," she
said. "It's very difficult, rewarding work."
In her dissertation, "The Great Code in Sixth Cen
tury European Novels" she compares novels in three
languages: two in French, two in German and two in
English. And she reads it in the original, too, not transla
tions. "I prefer to labor through a book" in the original
language than getting the information second hand
through a translation, she said. Bible knowledge made
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it easier. She had taught and studied tne Dime earner.
She completed a 7-year program in 4-years. She
completed her 3-year dissertation in a year. "I'm not
sorry I did that. I was so afraid something would happen
to us healthwise."
Concern was real because husband had two strokes
in a year and a half and she had pneumonia and eye
surgery during the four years she was in school. After
his recent stroke, her husband couldn't speak or
remember who she was. During his 24 day hospital stay,
Toews said she would be at the hospital for 10 hours a
day. She had felt she would have to quit school, "I
thought I've had it." But he would say, "Where are your
books? Why aren't you studying? What are you doing
just sitting here?"
Financially, Toews said they lived off their own
money and did not take out any loans. Social Security
helped. The total cost of her four year education was
about $30,000. "We know how to live not too expensive
ly.” For a graduation present, Toews said her husband
bought her a car with a license plate that says HRD.
"This was hard work. The most challenging and wor
thwhile work I had ever done."
Exercise wise, both of them are amazing. Gerhard
can do 260 pushups a day and Aganetha does about
1,000 jumps per day. "You need to do exercise that gets
your heart pumping and increase your breathing,"
Toews said.
"Now that I'm through with this, I think I'll study
Russian, the language of my grandparents," Toews said.
She wants to go back to Canada, Manitoba, and teach a
college term up there. She is also writing a history of
Salem Academy which they will publish.
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