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Blue Mountain Eagle
New superintendent/principal
leads Monument School
A7
Film crew comes to Kam Wah Chung
Documentary
will be for
Chinese
television
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Donald Petersen is at the
helm as Monument School’s
new superintendent/princi-
pal.
He came on board in early
July, picking up where inter-
im superintendent/principal
Michael Lane left off. Lane
came out of retirement to join
Monument School for most
of the 2017-18 school year.
Petersen said the moment
he set eyes on Monument it
felt like home to him. He and
his wife, Madeline, will also
enjoy living nearer to their six
grown daughters, he said.
Petersen was previously
the director of EagleRidge
High School, a charter school
of about 200 students, for five
years in Klamath Falls.
Landing the job in Monu-
ment, Petersen will have 47
students at the school.
“I’m not going to come
in and make a big wave and
change Monument, but I’m
going to steady the ship and
move forward,” he said.
After majoring in agri-
business at University of Ne-
vada-Reno, Petersen began
his career working for USS
Agri-Chemicals and Simplot
Soil Builders.
Having six children in
school, he became a member
of the school board.
“Watching and supporting
great teachers help kids learn
how to learn was exciting to
me,” he said.
He then began a career in
education, teaching econom-
ics and business computers in
Cambridge, Idaho.
He then received a mas-
ter’s in educational technol-
ogy from Boise State Uni-
versity followed by earning
his administrative credential
through the University of
South Alabama through the
Nevada Department of Edu-
cation.
Before working at Ea-
gleRidge, he taught in Gold
Beach and ran an alternative
education program and charter
school, then was head teacher/
vice principal at McDermitt,
Nevada.
Petersen said over the years
he’s been a football coach,
wrestling coach and produced
school yearbooks.
He said his educational in-
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
By Richard Hanners
Blue Mountain Eagle
Donald Petersen
terests are mainly agriculture,
computers, science and math.
“I hope to share that love
with the school community,”
he said.
He said he’s looking for-
ward to working with the
teachers and staff including
Michele Engle, who was given
a regional Teacher of the Year
award.
“I’m very excited to work
with someone of that caliber,”
Petersen said. “She’s doing
some projects, and I think I
can help her with some proj-
ect-based learning, like ru-
brics.”
In a letter to the communi-
ty on the Monument School
website, Petersen said he en-
joys working with school staff
to set and achieve goals.
“This will include working
with the community and par-
ents in continuing traditions of
achievement,” he wrote.
“I feel a responsibility to
parents to be an advocate for
their students at school,” he
continued. “I believe that be-
ing an advocate for students
helps support them and builds
a strong team approach with
parents, students, teachers and
administrator all working for
successful learning.”
Maria Thomas, the school
board vice chairman, said
she’s looking forward to
working with Petersen.
“He’s very qualified with
loads of experience, and he
seems like he would be a good
fit for our district,” she said.
Petersen has a positive
outlook, starting out at Monu-
ment School.
“It has been a very fiscal-
ly responsible school, so I’m
stepping into a really good
situation,” he said. “I’m go-
ing to have to work hard to
keep up with their traditions
that way.”
A documentary film crew
was at the historic Kam Wah
Chung store in John Day re-
cently, but it wasn’t the long
anticipated Discovery Chan-
nel film crew.
Camera and sound tech-
nicians from Yiping Media
Group of Shenzhen, China,
are working on a documenta-
ry about the spread of Chinese
Eagle photos/Richard Hanners
herbal medicine around the A cameraman from Yiping Media Group films Professor Zhao Zhongzhen from the
School of Chinese Medicine in Hong Kong at the historic Kam Wah Chung store in
world.
Two weeks earlier, they John Day on Aug. 1.
were filming Professor Zhao
covered by curators in the Kam
Zhongzhen and Eric Brand as
Wah Chung store include an
they studied Chinese herbs in
“All-Flash” comic book from
the vast botanical collection at
1942 and cases of Kentucky
the Natural History Museum
bourbon bottles dating to Pro-
in London, England. Brand,
hibition. The bootleg bottles,
from Boulder, Colorado, was
which were found under the
a student of Zhongzhen’s in
floorboards, are still full.
Hong Kong and is fluent in
Brand ranks the Kam Wah
Chinese.
Chung site among the top 10
Zhongzhen is a professor
Chinese herbal medicine sites
at the School of Chinese Med-
icine in Hong Kong, where
in the world. While histor-
ic documents and botanical
Brand did his doctoral thesis.
specimens can be found in
Zhongzhen also heads a gov- Eric Brand and Professor Zhao Zhongzhen from the
ernment-run testing center School of Chinese Medicine in Hong Kong look at
other locations, the Kam Wah
to ensure quality of Chinese herbal specimens found at the historic Kam Wah
Chung collection includes
Chung store in the archives building in John Day.
herbs.
complete records of people
This year marks the 500th
who came in for treatment
anniversary of the birth of Li zhen found a donor to back a Chinese herbal medicines.
by Ing “Doc” Hay — from
“My interest in pharmacy diagnosis and prescription to
Shizhen, considered the father different film project, a small-
of Chinese medicine. Recog- er one that will be produced came from my mother,” she repeat visits.
nizing past errors accumulat- in the Chinese language and said.
As they sorted through the
ing over the centuries, Shizhen broadcast on Chinese televi-
After lunch, Zhongzhen herbal collection in the ar-
went to work properly identi- sion.
and Brand accompanied mu- chives building, Zhongzhen
fying and categorizing all the
Zhongzhen was game to seum curator Don Merritt grew excited about a find. It
herbal medicines used in Chi- walking up and down the to the Kam Wah Chung ar- was a package of an herb used
na.
wooden staircase on the front chives where they inspected for sinus congestion — the ex-
Zhongzhen and Brand of the historic trading post as herbs sent from China to John act same herb he wrote about
for a thesis in 1982.
traveled to John Day last year the cameras rolled under the Day.
He and Brand also found
“This is their original paper
to inspect the unusual Chi- direction of the film crew’s
nese herbal collection at the producer, despite the heat packaging,” Merritt said.
aged tangerine peels. The me-
Kam Wah Chung State Her- wave John Day had been ex-
Chinese goods shipped to dicinal properties of the peels
itage Site and promised to periencing.
John Day in the 1860s and is related to their age, Brand
return.
“It’s hotter in China,” one 1870s came to San Francis- noted, and these samples were
Zhongzhen told the Ea- of the cameramen told the Ea- co. They were transported by 100 years older than most that
gle at the time that it was his gle.
wagons to Portland, shipped are sold.
They also found coins dat-
dream to come to the museum.
Liz Qi, from Los Angeles, up the Columbia River and
Last year’s visit was also a served as a translator for the then transferred to horse- ing to the time of the first three
scouting trip for the Discovery film crew. Her mother came drawn wagons for the leg to emperors of the Qing dynasty.
Channel’s planned five-part to the United States in 1991 Baker City and on to Grant They were collectibles, not
viable currency, Zhongzhen
documentary on Chinese herb- and ran a successful Chinese County.
al medicine. A portion on Kam herbal medicine clinic. Qi
“The trip took six weeks noted.
“The grandfather, father
Wah Chung may be filmed graduated from a tradition- from Hong Kong to Prairie
al pharmacy school last year City,” Merritt said.
and son,” he said, pointing to
next year.
In the meantime, Zhong- but also has an interest in
More modern artifacts dis- the coins.
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DON’T MAKE THIS SAME MISTAKE
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meeting has changed this month.
We will be meeting on Wednesday,
August 22. The Chamber board will
meet at 10:30 at the Chamber
office. The no-host membership
luncheon will follow at 12:00 at the
Outpost restaurant. This month’s
speakers will be Brett Upmore, the
new School District #3
Superintendent, and Chris Rush,
the new publisher for the Blue
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