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In their own words
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Don Fair
1947-8
“1 remember the famous printing press fire
and how we still got the paper out the next
morning.”
Dawn E. Garcia
1979-81
“Cutting classes for a day with ODE photog
rapher Steve Dykes so we could report on the
Rajneesh and his crazy commune in Antelope,
Ore. We drove from the lush green of Eugene
across the state to the dry eastern desert. We in
terviewed confused converts dressed all in red
as well as frustrated natives of Antelope. Real
journalism!”
Janet Sanderson Goetze
1960-64
“I can’t forget Nov. 22, 1963, when we had to
throw out our Homecoming copy and write as
sassination stories and sudden changes in cam
pus schedules.”
Joseph A. Haran Jr.
1973
“During the early 1970s an Emerald editor in
chief told me: ‘I'd never hire any bastard veter
an!’ Trendy campus, anti-war sentiment tended
to translate into anti-veteran actions...
Like many other ex-Gls on campus, I learned
to keep my working class background and ex
periences of military service in the Republic of
Vietnam ‘in the closet’ whenever I was convers
ing with students exuding such middle class val
ues.”
Tom Henderson
1984-5
“Being called ‘smug’ and ‘abusive’ during an
interview with folk singer Joan Baez. (That was
pretty much the end of my crush on her.)”
Stan Horton
1967-69
“Featured on front page of Emerald with fin
gers crossed, looking at teletype as first numbers
of first Vietnam draft were announced. (I was
lucky — 347.)”
Graham Kislingbury
1974-5
“A number of us were working at the Emer
ald on that Thursday night in May 1975 we Steve
Prefontaine beat some visiting Finnish runners
in a race at Hayward Field. We were happy that
Pre had won again. Our sports guys got the sto
ry in the paper, and we all went home.
“A friend called me at 6:30 the next morning
to say that Pre had been killed in a car wreck
following a post-meet party. I didn’t go to class
that day. I bicycled over to Alton Baker Park and
spent hours there thinking about this wonderful
guy whose life had tragically ended at age 24.”
Pat Malach
1989-93
“Fielding a campaign from a member of the
American Socialist Workers (Nazi) party who felt
we had defamed the Nazis by comparing the
Oregon Citizens Alliance to them.”
Tonie Nathan
1969-71
“In 1972 I campaigned nationally as the Liber
tarian Party vice presidential candidate and won
the first electoral vote for a woman.”
Lou Parker
1958-61
“Flying with UO football team and coach Len
Casanova to 1958 Rose Bowl to photograph
game and pre-game events at Disneyland, etc.
for ODE.”
Dan Pfaff
1958-61
“That I didn't give in while editor when on
two separate occasions college deans tried to
get me to 1) fire a columnist whose opinions the
dean did not like; 2) promise not to publish any
thing negative about the dean’s college.”
Marcus Prater
1982-83
“Working my ass off for 10 hours on a story,
writing a 15-inch story at $1 an inch (that’s $1.50
an hour) and actually loving it.”
Bob Robinson
1953-54
“The time I got a call from then-track coach
Bill Bowerman after I criticized his use of an in
jured athlete in a dual meet. He didn’t think a
writer from the school paper was knowledge
able enough to make that critique.’’
Patricia TVeece
1956-60
“It now seems impossibly quaint that after
covering a Browsing Room lecture or other
late-night event and writing it up at the Emer
ald, as a freshman woman I was provided with
a male escort to see me safely back to my
room.”
Milly Wilson Wohler
1939-43
“My first interview as a freshman was with
Wayne Morse, then law school dean. I was
frightened. He was kind. The story turned out
OK.”
— Compiled from 1998Alumni Directory
Courtesy Martin Meadows
A little-known example ot the Emerald's versatile uses — filling a dorm
room before the occupant returns from winter break in 1952.
Counesy Erich Boekelheide
Ken Sands, editor 1980-81, at the Vida Bam parly in 1980.
Courtesy Sandi Daller
Kathryn Barton and Jennifer Archer take a break from production work in 1991.
Courtesy,' I Aura Morris Stuck
Laura Morris (left) and Pepper Allen examine the
Slayton Mail the week before they were to assist in
producing it in the mid-1950s.