Easing transitions
focus of new job
Senior Jennifer Creighton
debuts as the new
accounting coordinator
By Sara Jarrett
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO found a way to battle
the accounting fiasco it faces at the
beginning of every fall term.
In previous years, after last
year’s controllers leave for bigger
and better things, the newly hired
were forced to enter the job in the
midst of chaos and teach them
selves the thankless task of verify
ing purchase orders and reconcil
ing groups without anyone to
show them the ropes.
But everything’s changing with the
new accounting-coordinator positon.
That is where accounting major
Jennifer Creighton, a senior, comes
in. The new accounting-coordina
tor position, of which Creighton is
the first to fill this month, was de
signed to “provide support, train
ing and better continuity to ASUO
programs and staff in our control
ling/accounting area,” said ASUO
President Wylie Chen.
“I’m more of a support person, al
most an advisor,” Creighton said.
The role of this position is to
guide the incoming controllers
and answer questions, she said.
Her qualifications are numer
ous. She was an intern in the con
trollers office in the 1997-1998
school year and has been head
controller since May 1998.
“As soon as I stepped into the
office [in 1997],” Creighton said,
“I saw things that
needed to be
changed. It wasn’t
a pretty sight.”
“The office was
so disorganized
that I worked 30
40 hours when [as
a student] I wasn’t
supposed to,” she said.
Student organizations and
groups were the ones to suffer
from the disorder.
She knewthen that what the office
really needed was an experienced
person, especially during thetransi
tion at the beginning of the year.
The need to implement such a po
sition was also felt by Morgan Cowl
ing and Geneva Wortman, ASUO
Executive for the 1998-1999 school
year, after they witnessed how hard
it was for new controllers to adjust
on their own, Creighton said.
In September, for the first time,
student groups can buy what they
need in a timely and efficient man
ner. They will no longer have to
wait for the person in ASUO ac
counting to figure out how to write
a purchase order by flipping
through past ledgers.
“I hope that every year, [the situ
ation] gets a little bit better,”
Creighton said.
53rd Miss Oregon
perseveres for crown
SEASIDE — Angela Reed, the
runner-up in the past two Miss Ore
gon contests, made the third time a
charm Saturday when she was
crowned the 53rd Miss Oregon.
Reed was crowned by Miss Ore
gon 1998, Jennifer Sisco-Moore,
and now will represent +Oregon+
in the Miss America Pageant in At
lantic City in September.
Reed, 23, first entered the Miss
Oregon Pageant in 1993 as Miss
Mazama, and has competed every
year since. She is a graduate of
Mazama High School in Bend and
Warner Pacific University in Seat
“They call me the ’Miss Oregon
Energizer Bunny,”’ Reed said. “I
keep coming back and coming
back and coining back. ”
Reed, who was competing this
year as Miss Tri-Valley, said she
had dreamed of making it to the
Miss America Pageant since she
was a little girl.
“I’m so excited, I can hardly be
lieve this,” she said.
The annual pageant held at the
Seaside Convention Center offers
more than $37,000 in scholarships
to the contestants.
Reed will receive $10,000 as
Miss Oregon, and $3,000 from the
Miss America sponsors.
The first runner-up was Marisa
Frasier, Miss Portland. Second
runner-up was Jessica Baxter,
Miss Douglas; third runner-up
was Maegan Golden, Miss Coos;
fourth runner-up was Brandlyne
Cooke, Miss Willamette.
Frasier will receive $3,500 in
scholarships and an all-expense
paid trip to compete in the Nation
al Sweetheart Pageant later this
year in Hoopeston, 111.
* —The Associated Press
Catharine Kendali/Ememld
During his remarks, conductor Helmuth Rilling acknowledged the friends he has made in Eugene during the last 30 years of the
Oregon Bach Festival, saying “I have come to like, very much, this place. ”
Rilling
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sentative Peter DeFazio. Also
present was President Emeritus
Robert D. Clark, who as presi
dent from 1969 to 1975 wit
nessed the origin of the Bach
Festival. In addition, Dieter
Blessing, mayor of the conduc
tor’s hometown, Stuttgart, Ger
many, watched his countryman
receive the award.
“Helmuth Rilling, I join my
colleague Dave Frohnmayer,
and I bring you greetings from
your colleagues in the Oregon
University System,” said Joseph
Cox, chancellor of the Oregon
University System. “You have
enriched our lives, and you
have touched our hearts. This is
a very special relationship be
tween the state of Oregon and
this marvelous music and this
gentleman.
“With great congratulations,
we extend heartiest best wishes
for a long and successful con
tinued relationship.”
Rilling received a one-minute
standing ovation following his
introduction.
“This is a pleasure, and to all
— may I say, my distinguished
colleagues of the University of
Oregon — I thank you very
much for the honor that you be
stow on me,” Rilling said.
In addition to his work with
the Bach Festival, Rilling di
rects the Internationale
Bachakademie Stuttgart and
has been a guest conductor with
major orchestras around the
world. Rilling co-founded the
Bach Festival at the University’s
School of Music in 1970 with
Royce Saltzman, a professor
emeritus of music, who still
serves as executive director of
the festival.
“Over the years Helmuth has
contributed a great deal to the
enrichment of the arts in Eu
gene,” Saltzman said Monday.
“So much about the festival is
about education, with not just
the performances, but the mas
ter’s classes, as well. The young
people involved in those class
es have been greatly impacted.”
Rilling, during his comments
at the ceremony, acknowledged
how he has benefited from his
visits to Oregon, specifically
Eugene.
“Thirty years is a long time,”
he said. “I have been here each
time about three weeks, so that
makes it more than 11/2 years
of my life I have been in Eu
gene. I have come to like, very
much, this place.
“How many friends do I have
at this place over the many
years? I think with this degree
now I really am part of you.”
Rilling and Saltzman have
seen the festival grow from a
workshop for choral musicians
into a world-renowned gather
ing for musicians, conductors,
composers and music-lovers.
“We gave birth to [the Bach
Festival], and here it is 30 years
later as an adult,” Saltzman
said. “We’re both very pleased
with the strong support from
the community, which invests
time, energy and money in this
festival.”
In turn, Frohnmayer ex
pressed his sentiments on ap
preciating at least another 30
years for the Bach Festival.
“A legacy is something that
does more than just survive to
the next generation,” he said.
“A legacy takes the treasure of
one era and enriches it for the
next. Rilling has done more
than keep the legacy of Bach
alive, for his artistry is the spirit
and soaring architecture of
Bach’s genius and capacity to
reinvigorate our own souls with
the power and passion of musi
cal communication from hu
man-to-human through the
ages.
“Through Helmuth Rilling’s
genius as a conductor and edu
cator, we learn, refreshingly and
vibrantly, the power of a lasting
legacy.”
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