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A10 THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2021 Putnam The Putnam house in Bend is raised off its foun- dation and is in the process of be- ing renovated. Continued from A1 Completely restoring the Putnam house will take more than a year to complete, Winey said. He is starting with constructing a new lava rock foundation, which has required lifting the house 10-feet off the ground. In addition, Winey plans to remove a back porch that was added in the 1940s and remove and replace a brick chimney. The Bend Landmarks Com- mission has approved the initial work. “This particular property has gone through 50 years of neglect and de- ferred maintenance,” Winey told the landmarks commission in October. “There is a very significant shift and a lot of settling on the first and second floor.” Cynthia Putnam, the granddaugh- ter of George and Dorothy Putnam, said she is thrilled with the renovation plans. The 70-year-old retired English teacher from southeast Florida visited the home in 1997 and in 2017. “I’m just so pleased they chose this house to renovate because they appre- ciate the history behind it,” Putnam said in a phone call. Putnam believes her grandparents would be honored to know their first home together is still standing today. Putnam never knew her grandfather, who died the year she was born, but she knows how much Bend meant Bend Tech Continued from A1 “I would rather be in (full- time), doing all the hands-on projects, because that’s how I learn best,” said ninth grader Gabriel Miller, 15. “But being able to come in, despite hav- ing a global pandemic, is really good.” About 70% to 75% of Bend Tech Academy’s stu- dent population attends lim- ited in-person instruction on Wednesdays, said Principal Sal Cassaro. That’s not a large number of students, as many teens who initially signed up for Bend Tech switched to district-spon- sored Bend-La Pine Online classes last fall, said Cassaro. December enrollment statis- tics show 97 students enrolled at Bend Tech — a sharp drop Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin Submitted photo/Deschutes County Historical Society A photo of the George Palmer Putnam house in 1984 shows original wooden steps, which were replaced with stone steps in the 1990s. to him. Putnam appreciates how the city remembers her grandfather for all he accomplished, rather than how he is remembered nationally as the wid- ower to Amelia Earhart. “I can’t emphasize enough what a wonderful, pleasant way Bend, Ore- gon presents George Palmer Putnam,” she said. “It’s unlike anywhere else. He was an extraordinary man, especially for the West.” from the school district’s pro- jection of 159 students. “We had such great momen- tum in our school, we were building great culture, doing some great things academ- ically,” Cassaro said. “Then COVID hit, and it spun every- body out.” Cassaro took the reigns at Bend Tech Academy, then known as Marshall High School, in 2018. Over the course of a couple school years, he transformed it from an al- ternative high school to a ca- reer and technical education magnet school with classes in unique subjects like health, business, construction, robot- ics and more. Many Bend Tech students joined the school explicitly for these hands-on programs that are difficult to replicate at home. Because of that, some Many books and movies about Earhart, who disappeared on a flight across the Pacific Ocean July 2, 1937, depict Putnam in a negative light, as someone who used Earhart for his own personal gain, his granddaugh- ter said. But she reminds people that her grandfather is the one who hand- picked Earhart to become the first woman aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. “It was his success that made her the icon that she is to this day,” Put- nam said. As for all the theories surrounding Earhart’s mysterious disappearance, Putnam has a simple explanation. “It’s not sexy to say she ran out of gas and fell in the ocean and died,” she said. “That’s not sensational. That doesn’t sell. But that’s what happened.” Earhart did not know Putnam when he was in Bend. She never vis- ited his home on Congress Street. It was Putnam’s influence as a newspaper publisher, mayor and town promoter that led to his house being listed in 1998 on the National Register of Historic Places. “His desire to do good helped shape the growing town of Bend during the Submitted photo Bend Tech Academy student Kyle Hutchinson builds a robot in a tech- nology class. students said they were disap- pointed they could only learn in-person once a week due to COVID-19 for the first half of the school year. Ninth grader Mikah Do- lyniuk, who’s in a construction class, noted that much of that online learning for the class has been simply reviewing safety tips. And although he’s been able to build things at home, 2021 e e Reporter: 541-617-7820, kspurr@bendbulletin.com since his family has a work- shop, he knows many students don’t have the same luxury. “I got a good grade because I can make all this stuff, but I don’t know if other people had a worse grade because they couldn’t,” Mikah, 15, said. Not every student minded only attending school once a week. Ninth grader Elena Ste- phens said she actually enjoys the balance of mostly learning online, with just a splash of in-person schooling. “Only going to actual school once a week is easier, way sim- pler, than every day,” Elena, 14, said. Both teachers and students said they felt safe on Wednes- days, as Bend Tech Acad- emy staff effectively enforced COVID-19 protocols. But, as Mikah pointed out, social dis- tancing isn’t hard when your THE LARGEST “IN STOCK” FURNITURE STORES IN OREGON! IT’S A WALL-TO-WALL TOTAL AND COMPLETE MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE OFFERING SENSATIONAL BARGAINS ON EVERY ITEM IN OVER $8,000,000 WORTH OF INVENTORY! first part of the twentieth century,” reads the application for the national register. Once the Putnam house is restored, Winey and his wife plan to move in and retire. Winey said the house will be his last project, after a long career of architec- ture work around the world. 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