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EOU Board of Trustees
names interim co-presidents
with the university’s alumni
board and foundation board
to understand the impact the
decision may have on each
organization.
“After having listened to
the discussion and reading
public comments, we (decided
we) need to take the time to
find the next great leader of
EOU,” trustee Cedric Riel
said. “For the interim, I think
we should go with people
who are passionate about and
committed to the university. I
believe Lara and Richard are
those people.”
Martin also stressed the
importance of new leadership
working with the academic
side of the university and
engaging with deans and
Seimears. Trustee and profes-
sor Anna Cavinato strongly
encouraged open communi-
cation to seek feedback from
the faculty.
“I believe in EOU’s
community,” Moore said.
“We have gone through a
number of leadership transi-
tions in the past, and I have
confidence that we will come
out of this transition with a
great leader for EOU. In the
meantime, I’m ready for a
fantastic year.”
The board will meet in
the next few weeks to deter-
mine how to proceed with the
search process.
The Observer
LA GRANDE — Richard
Chaves and Lara Moore will
take over as interim co-pres-
idents of Eastern Oregon
University on Sept. 1, the
university announced in a
release Friday, Aug. 19.
The Eastern Oregon
University Board of Trustees
made the decision after conven-
ing for a special session on
Aug. 19. The move was made
necessary by the announce-
ment earlier this month that
current president, Tom Insko,
would be leaving his post at the
end of September. Insko has
been named president and chief
executive officer at Collins, a
wood products company based
in Wilsonville.
“We don’t make this choice
lightly,” said Cheryl Martin,
vice chair of the board of trust-
ees. “We want to provide the
university, and most import-
ant, our students, with stabil-
ity, continuity and momentum
as they come into the new
year.”
After discussing the
options for interim presi-
dent, the board voted to adopt
resolution 22-07 appointing
Moore, the vice president for
finance and administration,
and Chaves, the current board
chair, as interim co-presi-
dents. Chaves will resign
Moore
Insko
from the board to assume his
new duties. The resolution
also encourages the exten-
sion of interim provost Matt
Seimears’ appointment until
June 30, 2024.
The board began discus-
sions of interim leadership at
its retreat earlier this month.
During its special session,
the board held a lengthy
review about its options for
appointing interim leadership
following President Insko’s
resignation in early August.
The board discussed the
options of appointing co-pres-
idents, naming an external
interim president who has
experience working with the
university, elevating an inter-
nal individual or conducting a
search for an interim appoint-
ment.
Over the past two weeks,
the board engaged with
EOU’s shared governance
bodies to gain feedback from
faculty, students and staff
to inform its decision. They
also reached out to employee
labor groups and connected
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Movable Museum
Military vehicles plan to make a stop in Baker City
Dan McCluskey/Contributed Photo
A convoy of military vehicles takes a break on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, while en route to a visit
in Baker City on Aug. 24.
Dan McCluskey/Contributed Photo
Military vehicles along Highway 410 in Washington on Aug. 16, 2022. The convoy is sched-
uled to visit Baker City on Wednesday, Aug. 24.
By CLAYTON FRANKE
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — Dan
McCluskey is heading for
Baker City in his three-quar-
ter ton Vietnam-era M37
cargo truck.
But his rig — along with
the 32 other military vehicles
he’s traveling with — won’t
be delivering any cargo.
I nstead, McCluskey
describes the convoy as a
moving museum.
“Our goal is to show
everybody how the military
used their vehicles,” McClus-
key said. “They see military
vehicles in museums on static
display, but we’re out there
to show them how they used
them in motion.”
“We’re putting hundreds
of miles on them, day in, day
out. This is how they moved
them in convoy order.”
McCluskey, a member
of the Military Vehicle
Preservation Association,
is the convoy commander
for the 2022 MVPA North-
west Parks Motor Convoy,
which is scheduled to arrive
in Baker City on Wednes-
day afternoon, Aug. 24, and
spend the night at the Baker
County Fairgrounds north
of Campbell Street between
Grove and East streets.
McCluskey said the
convoy is “fully on track for
all of the scheduled stops.”
After spending the night
of Aug. 23 at the Grant
County Fairgrounds in John
Day, the convoy stops in
Sumpter for lunch on Aug.
24 and arrive in Baker City
via Highway 7. He guessed
the line of vehicles would
roll north on Main Street
through downtown Baker
City at around 3 to 4 o’clock
that afternoon.
Then, the convoy will
arrange in close order at the
fairgrounds.
“We encourage the public
to come out and visit,”
McCluskey said.
“We’ll be camping right
there on the fairgrounds, so
we’re gonna have about 33
military vehicles there for
them to walk around, talk
to our people, look at the
vehicles.”
Dan McCluskey/Contributed Photo
A group of military vehicles
is slated to visit Baker City on
Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022.
All the vehicles are
privately owned by the
people participating in the
convoy, who are all MVPA
members.
Founded in 1976, MVPA
is a nonprofit with more than
100 affiliates worldwide
“dedicated to providing an
international organization
for military vehicle enthu-
siasts, historians, preser-
vationists and collectors
interested in the acquisition,
restoration, preservation,
safe operation and public
education of historic military
transport,” according to its
mission.
McCluskey estimated
that about 30%, and maybe
more, of the participants in
this year’s convoy are mili-
tary veterans.
When the convoy reaches
Baker City it will be on day
11 of a 15-day, 1,600-mile
historical loop taking the
convoy through Idaho, Wash-
ington and Oregon.
Parts of the loop overlap
with a longer, 6,350-mile
highway the National Parks
Service established in 1924
— the National Park-to-Park
Highway — that encom-
passes all the national parks
in the 11 western states.
The convoy’s schedule
includes visits to the Lewis
and Clark Trail, Mount Rain-
ier National Park, Mount
St. Helens, Mount Hood,
Washington’s Pacific Coast,
Oregon Trail sites, Hells
Canyon and other signifi-
cant military sites after leav-
ing Kamiah, Idaho, the start
point, on Aug. 14.
Occasionally, McClusky
said, members from MVPA
affiliations along the route
join in for segments of the
journey. MVPA has affiliate
clubs in Woodland, Washing-
ton, and in Wilsonville.
McClusky said the vehi-
cles — from World War II,
Korea, Vietnam, Desert
Storm and current eras —
can’t travel faster than 35
mph.
“That’s our max speed,”
he said. “A lot of times it’s a
lot less because we are going
up over hills. These old mili-
tary vehicles are definitely
not doing 60 miles per hour
going over the grades.”
Three units make up the
convoy during travel: the
“heavies,” 1.5- through 5-ton
vehicles, lead the charge,
followed by ¾-ton Dodge
cargo trucks, followed by the
jeep unit.
McCluskey said they
travel anywhere from 85 to
170 miles per day.
This 1,600-mile trip isn’t
the longest McClusky and
the MVPA have completed.
They traveled the Lincoln
military highway, which
spans from Washington,
D.C., to San Francisco, in
2009, and completed the
Bankhead Route from D.C.
to Seattle in 2015. They also
drove from Seattle to Plym-
outh Rock last year.
McCluskey said people
usually show their support
when they see the convoy.
“Along the way, we’ll have
people out at the end of their
driveways, waving flags,
waiting for the convoy to go
by,” he said.
The convoy will leave the
Baker County Fairgrounds
at 7 a.m. on the morning of
Aug. 25 and stop in Oxbow, at
the Oregon/Idaho border, for
lunch. It will then head north
for an afternoon display in
Joseph and spend the night at
the Eagle Cap Shooters Asso-
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