Park City, January 17th, 2014. The City of Roses features prominently in a documentary about Kurt Russell’s father called, “The Battered Bastards of Baseball”. In 1973, during a time when the Beavers were not playing in Portland, Hollywood actor Bing Russell jumped at a chance to organize the only independent minor-league team in the country. Facing skepticism from a city that had been hoping for an actual major-league team and starting from scratch without any players, Russell held open tryouts for any has-been or never-will-be. “He put this team together of misfits, a ballclub made up a bunch of crazy individuals,” says Bing’s son, Kurt Russell, who co-owned and played for the Mavericks. “There’s never been another ballclub like that.”
Bing’s grandsons, Chapman and Maclain Way, were inspired to co-direct the movie after uncovering old Mavericks memorabilia at their grandparents’ house, like the team photo that features players wearing backwards uniforms and guzzling beers.
BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL Kurt Russell in uniform for the Portland Mavericks
Kurt Russell
The Sundance Film Festival premier of the film om January 20th will also feature a family reunion. Kurt will attend the festival with the film’s directors: Bing’s grandsons Chapman and Maclain Way.
Meanwhile, Kurt’s son Wyatt will be at Sundance as a co-star in Cold in July, as will his stepdaughter Kate Hudson for a movie called Wish I Was Here.
Russell’s wife Goldie Hawn, who is Wyatt and Kate’s mother, will also attend the festival.
Baseball and Hollywood have always been dueling passions for the Russells — both father and son played minor-league ball — and both are at the heart of The Battered Bastards of Baseball, a documentary premiering at this week’s Sundance Film Festival.
The brothers knew Bing had led an amazing life, beginning with being a kid bat-boy for the legendary Yankees teams of Joe DiMaggio and extending to his long acting career in Hollywood and television westerns. But the more they dug into the Mavericks history, the more they found a story full of fascinating characters.
But what made the Mavericks story most compelling was that they immediately became a huge success. Not only did they win — beating other teams stocked with big-league prospects — but new fans flocked to the ballpark in record numbers. “What Bing saw was, ‘Well, if I don’t affiliate with a Major League team, then I can do whatever I want and I can hold on to my players all season and fans will actually get to know them,’” says Maclain. “So I think he actually turned his independent status into a huge advantage.”
“They shattered all the minor-league attendance records,” says Chapman. “Bing made it a priority to really entertain these fans and make it for the common person to come off of work and go to a cheap baseball game and get great entertainment.”
The independent enterprise would last five wild seasons, in which the Mavericks won their division four times. Organized baseball took notice of the Mavericks’ box-office success and quickly returned an affiliated franchise to douse the independent spirit from spreading, a drama the documentary details.
If the motley crew of ragtag players and the David-versus-Goliath plotline sound like the perfect sports movie, then you won’t be surprised to learn that Hollywood has expressed interest. “There have been a number of people who wanted to do something with the Mavericks story, and I won’t be surprised if it’s talked about in the future,” says Kurt. “But the idea here was simply two grandsons finding out about their grandfather. I’m really glad that they did it because I’m really anxious for my family to see this because they’ll have a much stronger picture of where I come from, of who I come from.”
Here’s a bit of history about the Portland teams: The Portland Beavers minor-league baseball team of the Pacific Coast League played at the stadium from 1956 to through 1993, and again from 2001 to 2010. From 1973 to 1977, the stadium hosted the minor league baseball Portland Mavericks, and 1995 to 2000, the Portland Rockies. The stadium hosted the USFL’s Portland Breakers, as well as the Portland Storm and Portland Thunder of the WFL.
Soccer has been hosted at Jeld-Wen since the original Portland Timbers were founded in the original North American Soccer League in 1975. Various iterations of the team have called the stadium home, including the 1980s version in the Western Soccer Alliance and the 2000s version in the USL First Division before the MLS club was formed.
Park City, January 18th, 2014. For the first time, film lovers can determine a Sundance winner with just a click of their mouse. You can vote in the new YouTube Audience Award for a short film right now. We’ve got the links below. The award will be presented at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony on January 25th. The short film with the most views on YouTube between January 16-24, 2014 will win.
This year, thousands of shorts were submitted. A total of 66 are premiering at Sundance and just 15 made it into in this competition launching at the 30th anniversary of the festival. The Sundance Institute selected 15 films eligible for this award from this year’s competition, so check them out.
Funnel
Directed by Andre Hyland
7 min, U S A
fiction
A man’s car breaks down and sends him on a quest across town that slowly turns into the most fantastically mundane adventure.
Notes on Blindness
Directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney
13 min, United Kingdom
Documentary
In 1983, writer and theologian John Hull became blind. To help make sense of his loss, he began keeping an audio diary. Encompassing dreams, memories, and his imaginative life, Notes on Blindness immerses the viewer in Hull’s experience of blindness.
Dig
Directed by Toby Halbrooks
10 min, U S A
fiction
A young girl watches her father dig a hole in their backyard. Mystified about his purpose, the neighborhood comes to watch.
MeTube: August Sings Carmen ‘Habanera’
Directed by Daniel Moshel
4 min, Austria
fiction
George Bizet`s “Habanera” from Carmen has been reinterpreted and enhanced with electronic sounds for MeTube, a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, and gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet.
Catherine
Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
13 min, U S A
fiction
Catherine returns to work after a hiatus. 17:27GREGORY GO BOOMby Janicza Bravo
Gregory Go Boom
Directed by Janicza Bravo
17 min, U S A
fiction
A paraplegic man leaves home for the first time only to discover that life in the outside world is not the way he had imagined it.
Cruising Electric (1980)
Brumby Boylston
1 min, U S A
fiction
The marketing department green-lights a red-light tie-in: 60 lost seconds of modern movie merchandising.
fiction. When a young Yemeni boy ventures out of his cramped apartment and finds a key to the empty mansion down the street, he lets himself and his imagination run wild in the big house.
Chapel Perilous
Directed by Matthew Lessner
13 min, U S A
fiction
Levi Gold is paid an unexpected visit by Robin, a door-to-door salesman with nothing to sell. The ensuing encounter forces Levi to confront his true mystical calling, and the nature of reality itself. A metaphysical comedy trip-out with Sun Araw.
Crime The Animated Series (Marcus McGhee)
Directed by Alix Lambert and Sam Chou
4 min, U S A/Canada
Animated documentary
From Bank robbers to cops to victims to observers, Crime: The Animated Series explores how crime affects us all. The series is dark, compelling, heartbreaking, and yes – sometimes funny.
Rat Pack Rat
Directed by Todd Rohal
19 min, U S A
fiction
A Sammy Davis, Jr. impersonator, hired to visit with a loyal Rat Pack fan, finds himself delivering last rights at the boy’s bedside. 4:46ALLERGY TO ORIGINALITYby The New York Times
Allergy to Originality
Directed by Drew Christie. 4 min, U S A
Animation. A humorous animated ‘Op-Doc’ explores the rich history of adaptation, plagiarism, and other forms of appropriation in art.
Again, you can Check out the shorts that are in completion for the YouTube Audience Award on the Sundance Film Festival channel.
Portland, January 13, 2014. Philanthropist, Arlene Schnitzer with the support of her son Jordan Schnitzer, has earmarked $5 million from the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Family Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation (OJCF) as the lead gift in Cedar Sinai Park’s Capital Campaign. (Arlene Schnitzer is pictured with with Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson from the Portland Art Museum) OJCF is Cedar Sinai Park’s legacy planning and investment partner. The Foundation’s Board of Directors announced that it has happily approved Mrs. Schnitzer’s funding recommendation. It has been requested that this designated gift be made in Mrs. Schnitzer’s name and in the name of her husband, Harold Schnitzer, who passed away in 2011.
Harold and Arlene Schnitzer in the Japanese Garden in 2010
“Harold would be proud to see our family’s participation in helping to build a new vision for the way services are delivered to elders in the Jewish as well as broader community. It brings us great comfort to know that many will have access to this facility and its wonderful services for decades to come,” exclaimed Mrs. Schnitzer.
“Our son, Jordan, spent 16 years leading Cedar Sinai Park and led the development of the May Apartments, Rose Schnitzer Manor, and helped to restructure the operations of the nonprofit in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Our family has always felt it was important to not only honor our elders, but help provide the quality of life and care so our seniors can live with dignity and peace. We are confident that Portland’s funding community will rise to the challenge involved in this gift and help to build this new care center and to build the endowment that will assure that it will be well managed for generations to come,” said Mrs. Schnitzer.
To meet the changing needs of current and future generations, CSP’s Capital Campaign will raise the funds necessary to renovate the existing Robison Jewish Health Center (so all rooms will be private), and develop a new care and rehabilitation center in SW Portland to be named the Harold Schnitzer Health and Rehabilitation Care Center. To be built is a four-story household model featuring private bedrooms and bathrooms, and shared kitchens and living rooms to help residents sustain meaningful connections to family and friends…all while receiving the highest quality of professional medical care that has been the hallmark of our services.
The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Family Donor Advised Fund of the OJCF was established in 2012 as a result of the largest gift ever made to Portland’s Jewish community. According to Harold Schnitzer’s wishes, Park Tower Apartments was gifted by the family to OJCF in October 2012 to honor Harold and to continue his legacy.
“On behalf of the OJCF Board and entire organization, we are honored to partner with the Schnitzer family and Cedar Sinai Park. The establishment of the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Family Donor Advised Fund represents a tremendous vote of confidence in the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation as a vehicle for the distribution and fulfillment of philanthropic goals of all sizes and scope,” said Sharon Morell, President of the Board of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation.
Three million dollars of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Family Fund’s generous Capital Campaign gift has been designated as a fundraising challenge grant (encouraging others to follow suit); $1.75 million will be given as a top-off grant at the end of the community fundraising effort. In addition, $250,000 has been designated as a challenge grant for the purpose of creating an endowment for new Care Center’s building maintenance.
“We are honored by this gift and by the remarkable leadership and confidence it represents. Cedar Sinai Park is very grateful to the entire Schnitzer family for all it has done…Arlene Schnitzer’s desire to fulfill her husband Harold’s wish is something for which we will be eternally grateful and Jordan’s 33-year history of supporting seniors in the community is unprecedented,” said Jim Winkler, Chair of the Cedar Sinai Park Capital Campaign.
The total Cedar Sinai Park Capital and Endowment Campaign goal is $28 million. With this gift from the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Family Fund, more than $11 million has been raised to date of the $18 million community fundraising goal. It is anticipated that $7.5 million in bonds will also be sold in order to complete the construction financing. In addition, $2.5 million will be raised by CSP to create a maintenance endowment for the healthcare buildings.
“We are so grateful to the late Harold Schnitzer and his family for their leadership and vision, and our Board and community are determined to meet and exceed the challenges built into this marvelous gift,” said Paul Frisch, President of the Board of Cedar Sinai Park.
“The foundation is honored to play a unique role in facilitating the incredible generosity of Harold, Arlene and Jordan Schnitzer in support of Cedar Sinai Park’s Capital Campaign. This long-standing partnership with CSP for the benefit of outstanding healthcare for our elders and disabled again demonstrates Harold, Arlene and Jordan’s dedication to caring for the most vulnerable in our community. This gift will surely inspire others to join in support of this important endeavor,” said Julie Diamond, Executive Director of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation.
“Diane O’Connor and Diane Elizondo, the co-founders of the Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Oregon and SW Washington applaud at a benefit for Ovarian Cancer on Sept. 19th
The Ovarian Cancer National Alliance is the foremost advocacy organization for women with ovarian cancer. Representing tens of thousands of women with ovarian cancer, OCNA works closely with the federal government to ensure funding for research and education, and also seeks to raise awareness of the risks, signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer.
“We are extremely proud that Diane will lead the OCNA board,” said Diane Elizondo, who also serves on the local OCAOSW board and co-founded the organization with O’Connor. “The dedication, compassion and knowledge Diane brings with her will be a wonderful asset to OCNA. We in the Pacific Northwest are proud to have her in this exciting new role and wish her well.”
“I am excited to welcome Diane as the new board president,” said OCNA Chief Executive Officer Calaneet Balas. “She brings us a wealth of expertise, as well as personal experience with the devastating effects of ovarian cancer.”
O’Connor received an ovarian cancer diagnosis in late 2001. She has been on the OCNA board since 2006, but has been an ovarian cancer advocate since her initial treatment concluded in 2002. She has been an integral part of OCNA’s Survivors Teaching Students: Saving Women’s Lives (STS®) program for ten years.
Locally, Survivors Teaching Students ® volunteers present their stories to all third-year medical students at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU), as well as to all other local nursing, pharmacy and naturopathic students. In all, there are more than two dozen STS® presentations each year, and O’Connor is a presenter at each one.
O’Connor is a retired high school counselor in the Vancouver school district. She is married to Terry O’Connor with whom she has two grown sons, and two granddaughters.
Ovarian cancer is the 5th leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women, and is the deadliest of all the gynecologic cancers. According to the American Cancer Society, in 2013 more than 22,000 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and more than 14,000 will die from it.
Symptoms of ovarian cancer may include bloating, pelvic or abdominal pain, difficulty eating or feeling full quickly, and urinary urgency or frequency. If these symptoms persist almost daily for two weeks, experts suggest a combination pelvic/rectal exam, CA 125 blood test and a transvaginal ultrasound.
The Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Oregon and SW Washington is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and partner member of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance.
Portland, January 9th, 2014. The Oregon Zoo has ramped up efforts to combat the illegal ivory trade by partnering with The Wildlife Conservation Society on the recently launched 96 Elephants campaign.
Named for the number of elephants poached daily in 2012, the campaign aims to end the sale of ivory in the United States, which conservationists believe is a key step in decreasing demand for the trade that kills elephants for their tusks. The zoo is urging community members to sign an online petition asking Congress to enact a moratorium on domestic ivory sales. To sign the petition, go to bit.ly/noivory.
In December, the Oregon Zoo Foundation provided $10,000 for the 96 Elephants campaign, which will support park guards, intelligence networks, and government operations in protected areas for elephants throughout the Congo Basin and East Africa, among other projects.
With the illegal ivory trade at its highest point since 1989, tens of thousands of wild elephants are being killed each year for their tusks. Photo by Julie Larsen Maher, courtesy of The Wildlife Conservation Society.
“Many people don’t realize that ivory is still legally sold in the U.S.,” said Nadja Wielebnowski, Oregon Zoo conservation and research manager. “Confusing regulations are also enabling a thriving black market for ivory in the U.S., which helps to drive the illegal killing of elephants. By avoiding ivory and openly stating their opposition to the ivory trade, Americans can tell the world that an elephant’s life is more valuable than a trinket.”
Operated by international crime syndicates, the illegal ivory trade is now at its highest point since 1989. Most ivory is used to carve ornamental objects, jewelry and trinkets.
Over the past months, both the U.S. and China — the world’s two largest markets for wildlife products — publicly destroyed a combined total of more than 12 tons of illegal ivory to underscore those governments’ commitment to combatting wildlife crime.
Plans are in the works to address the zoo’s own stockpile of ivory — currently stored in a high-security facility — donated over the years by community members who didn’t want or know how to dispose of it.
“Our community has demonstrated a profound compassion for elephants,” said Kim Smith, zoo director. “The Wildlife Conservation Society’s 96 elephants campaign gives us another tool for ending the trade that fuels the slaughter of these animals, and we encourage our community to join the fight.”
For the past 15 years, the zoo has worked to protect Asian and African elephants throughout their range by supporting field research and projects to mitigate human-elephant conflict through the International Elephant Foundation.
This year’s projects include purchasing field equipment for anti-poaching rangers in Kenya, training villagers to patrol and monitor for elephants in Myanmar, and micro-chipping Laotian elephants to reduce illegal capture.
The zoo is a service of Metro and is dedicated to its mission of inspiring the community to create a better future for wildlife. Committed to conservation, the zoo is currently working to save endangered California condors, Oregon silverspot and Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies, western pond turtles and Oregon spotted frogs. Other projects include studies on Asian elephants, polar bears, orangutans and giant pandas. Celebrating 125 years of community support, the zoo relies in part on donations through the Oregon Zoo Foundation to undertake these and many other animal welfare, education and sustainability programs.
The zoo opens at 10 a.m. daily and is located five minutes from downtown Portland, just off Highway 26. The zoo is also accessible by MAX light rail line. Visitors who travel to the zoo via MAX receive $1.50 off zoo admission. Call TriMet Customer Service, 503-238-RIDE (7433), or visit www.trimet.org for fare and route information.
General zoo admission is $11.50 (ages 12-64), $10 for seniors (65 and up), $8.50 for children (ages 3-11) and free for those 2 and younger; 25 cents of the admission price helps fund regional conservation projects through the zoo’s Future for Wildlife program. Additional information is available at www.oregonzoo.org or by calling 503-226-1561.
Portland, December 22nd, 2014. Young musicians from the BRAVO Rosa Parks program were showcased in the lobby of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall before the Comfort and Joy Concert by the Oregon Symphony. They were welcomed by Symphony musicians Ines Voglar and Jen Arnold. The kids are taking part in a new nonprofit program launched this fall which originated in Venezuela.
Established in 1975 by Jose Antonio Abreu, El Sistema “The System” is Venezuela’s national system of youth orchestras serving each year more than 400,000 children, over 80% of whom live in poverty. El Sistema-inspired programs are now operating in more than 50 countries around the world, and there are over 75 affiliated programs in the United States. BRAVO is the first in Oregon and the program’s Executive Director is Seth Truby.
BRAVO students started the program back in September by making paper mache violins with the help of their parents/guardians. They painted their violins bright colors and used them for the first week of practice, before graduating to real violins in week two.
Studies have shown that participation in El Sistema programs improves children’s outcomes in school attendance, academic performance, and even general health and wellbeing. Venezuela’s flagship program has positively impacted the lives of over 2 million children.
The RAVO Rosa Parks After-school Orchestra and Chorus, plus some staff and community volunteers. These forty students meet every day after school for two hours of choral singing, stringed instrument practice, and orchestra rehearsal.
BRAVO’s first project is the tuition- free classical music program for nearly 200 students at Rosa Parks School in North Portland, one of the district’s priority schools.
The project components include:
School day violin instruction for thirty minutes twice a week for all students in K-1 (approx. 150)
Daily afterschool string orchestraand chorus for forty students in grades 2-3 (10 hours/week)
Regular performance opportunities in the school, in the surrounding neighborhood and in the wider Portland metro area
US. BRAVO’s key partnerships are with Portland Public Schools (Rosa Parks) and Regence Boys and Girls Club. Our other collaborators include Home Forward (Housing Authority of Portland), Metropolitan Youth Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, Portland State University, and the Portland Youth Philharmonic.
Portland, January 4th, 2014. Last year was an exciting time in Portland’s nonprofit community for organizations like the Children’s Cancer Association. We’ve scoured our archives to find the most viewed stories on PortlandSocietyPage.com in 2013. During our second year offering nonprofit news we were honored to be nominated for the PDX-Tech-4-Good Award! We’ve published a total of 708 stories and had 268,700 page views on the site. Bottom line: you’re reading and enjoying PSP and many of you return over and over again to see what’s new!
Below are your top 10 most viewed stories, and links to check out the vibrant nonprofit benefits which captured your attention.
Portland, April 14th, 2013. After six years of service to the community, 24 high school seniors from The National Charity League, Inc. Portland Chapter were honored at a special celebration at the Governor Hotel. (Photo credit, Andie Petkus) Most of the young women, including Mariel Klein, Courtney Hall, Madeleine Waldram, Austin Quinlan and Sarah Murphy, began volunteering with their mothers during seventh grade and in total, the seniors worked 3,795 hours.
Portland, January 23rd, 2013. Auto aficionados like Erik Krieger, Bill Coit and Carl Christoferson enjoyed a sneak peek at the $257,000 Ferrari 458 Spyder. The charity preview was a fundraiser for The American Heart Association, The Boys and Girls Club and JDRF the organization focused on Type 1 Diabetes. The event was open to the public for the first time this year and attracted several hundred people happy to donate $200 for some one-on-one time with their dream cars.
Portland, June 6th, 2013. The American Diabetes Association of Oregon & SW Washington raised $150,000 at the first annual Father of the Year Awards. Fathers honored included: Craig Robinson, Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Oregon State University; Duncan Campbell, Child Activist and Founder of Friends of the Children and The Campbell Group; Mike Greene, Partner, Rosenthal, Greene & Devlin, P.C; Scott Keeney, President & CEO, nLIGHT; and Chris Dudley, Former NBA Player and Founder of the Chris Dudley Foundation. (photo credit, Andie Petkus)
Portland, March 2nd, 2013. The $2.9 million raised at this year’s gala will benefit local children and families. The 29th Annual Classic Wines Auction also drew more supporters ever with a sell-out crowd of 920. Record attendance was a thrill for 2013 Co-Chairs: John Bradley, R & H Construction, Cindy Campbell, The Campbell Foundation, and Keith Barnes, Barnes Capital Management.
Portland, June 24th, 2013. One of the the terrific aspects of summertime in Portland is the long list of outdoor concerts and movies scheduled though the City of Portland’s Parks Bureau. The links below will give you more details and there’s also full listing of events below. YES! It’s music to our ears!
Portland, December 6th, 2013. This year marks the 59th year for the Christmas Ship Parade on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers in Portland, Oregon. We’ve got the schedule for both routes with viewing locations and times for restaurants, hotels and outdoor viewing.
Portland, September 14th, 2013. It was a Mad Men inspired evening of 60s-era sizzle at “Starry Night” which featured the talents of “The Voice” John English and VIP after party with Amy Roloff. Since 2009, Amy Roloff Charity Foundation has raised over $750,000 in new giving and in kind donations for local, national and international non-profit organizations and causes.
Portland, December 29th. 2012 was an exciting year in Portland’s nonprofit community. We’ve scoured our archives to find the most viewed stories on PortlandSocietyPage.com over the past 12 months. Was it the OMSI gala? The Red Dress Party? A Portland Center Stage Bash?
Portland, Sept. 21, 2013. A superhero themed gala had super-sized results as organizers proclaimed, “CCA’s League of Extraordinary Friends unleash a force of goodness for seriously ill children and teens.”James Mercer of the The Shins, Stephanie Schneiderman, CCA Founder and CEO, Regina Ellis, Patrick Lamb, and Amy Maxwell took the stage to celebrate. (Photo credit, Michael Gary) Portland-based Children’s Cancer Association (CCA) celebrated hitting $1,000,000 for the first-time ever. “For one magical night, the Portland Art Museum was converted into the Hall of Justice and welcomed more than 600 honored super-powered guests,” the nonprofit reported.
Portland, February 8th, 2013. The VIP preview of “Quartet” drew dozens of Portland’s movers and shakers. The new restaurant will open on Valentine’s Day. It features an upscale menu offering Pacific Northwest cuisine with a Southern influence. Portland restaurateur Frank Taylor says of his new waterfront venture, “Quartet is a combination of hospitality, cuisine, music and lively, friendly ambiance.” The establishment’s first fundraising preview party will take place on February 13th and benefit Self Enhancement, Inc., the a local non-profit helping at-risk youth.
So there you have it!
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Manzanita, January 1st, 2014. Over 200 hardy souls braved the frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean to welcome 2014. It was the 10th annual Manzanita Polar Plunge. With another hundred-plus onlookers, who stayed in their warm clothes, the event on Neahkahnie Beach was the most successful to date. The temperature outside was unseasonably warm but the Ocean temperature was close to 49-degrees. The first year, 2004, only 6 people took the polar plunge.
Myra Friedman and Kathi Howell from Portland displayed their new year’s spirit.
Fun-loving Janice Gaines, in the cat-in-the-hat garb, started the tradition.
In 2004, Janice Gaines, the owner of the Spa Manzanita, decided a leap into the Ocean was a great way to cool off after a long hike. Since then, her Polar Plunge has gained momentum. It’s a free family event and Gaines has resisted requests to make it a fundraiser. She explains, “The event is growing because, it’s just simple and fun. People are looking for something fun to do on New Year’s Day and this doesn’t cost anything. It’s easy to do because people are already here, and some people even drive down for the plunge.” Participants pose for their photos by the fire and then it’s a race off to the water!
The water temperature was a chilly 49-degrees. Participants say when they plunge into the cold water, it takes their breath away.
Below are two links to two fun YouTube videos of the big 2012 Manzanita Polar Plunge!
Portland, December 12th, 2013. Supporters of Lewis & Clark gathered at the home of University President, Barry Glassner and his wife Betsy for some holiday cheer. The couple lives in the historic Cooley House in Dunthorpe.
Gerry Frank, Lewis & Clark law professor, Jennifer Johnson and her husband, Paul Francis
President Barry Glassner with The Honorable Garr “Mike” King and his wife Mary Jo King
Betsy Amster, a literary agent and president of Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises is the wife of President Barry Glassner, Lewis & Clark’s 24th president who took the helm in 2010.
Lewis & Clark trustees, John Bates, and Libby McCaslin and her daughter, Frances McCaslin
Dan Balmer of the Dan Balmer Trio – Dan is on the faculty at Lewis & Clark
A Lewis & Clark education isn’t like anything you could experience anywhere else. We’re a private institution with a public conscience, a residential campus with global reach. Students and faculty throughout all three of Lewis & Clark’s schools—the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and the Law School—pursue new ways of knowing by combining classic liberal learning with pioneering collaboration.
Our students represent the next generation of global thinkers and leaders, unafraid to discard conventional thinking, civic complacency, and outmoded preconceptions. Yet they value what Lewis & Clark offers: an education built from the time-tested elements of careful study, original research, and spirited debate.
So what makes the experience of our students unique? How about the inspiring beauty of our natural setting, on 137 wooded acres in Portland’s southwest hills. Or our rich history and our diverse, multicultural present. Or our commitment to interdisciplinary academic learning, as well as community engagement here in Portland and around the world.
Add to this our well-stocked libraries, award-winning green buildings, and outstanding athletic facilities; our implementation of technology and the innovative research it allows; and above all our committed and engaged students, teachers, mentors, staff, alumni, donors, and friends. It all adds up to Lewis & Clark, a place where agile minds come to learn, to explore, and to work together.
Portland, December 4th, 2013. Supporters gathered at the Benson Hotel to present $325,000 raised at the B.U.L.L. Session Invitational Charity Events held last September to nine children’s charities. Those beneficiaries included: Albertina Kerr’s Children’s Developmental Health Services, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Randall Children’s Hospital Legacy Emanuel, Gales Creek Camp Foundation, March of Dimes, Swindells Resource Center of Providence Child Center, Shriners Hospitals for Children® – Portland, Special Olympics Oregon, and Wheel to Walk Foundation. The B.U.L.L. Session is the Northwest’s premier charity event. Every year the B.U.L.L Session event brings together hundreds of the regional Business, Union and Labor Leaders to benefit the community’s most valuable assets: the children. (photo credit, Chris West)
E.H. “Chip” Laizure, Jeanne Danielson, Karen Santangelo (Swindells Resource Center of Providence Child Center)
BULL Session board members pose with check for $4.9 million, the total amount donated in past 23 years: Jim Moss, Jason Kaufman, Tim Gauthier, Ross Vroman, John Mohlis, Dave Johnston
Tim Gauthier, Catherine Bekooy (Albertina Kerr’s Children’s Developmental Health Services), Ross Vroman, Karen Ward (Albertina Kerr’s Children’s Developmental Health Services), Chris Krenk (Albertina Kerr’s Children’s Developmental Health Services)
Beth Joscelyn, Tom Tongue, Joanne Rogovoy (March of Dimes)
The two-day fundraiser, attended by many of the area’s leaders, began Monday, September 9, 2013, with a dinner and auction gala at the Oregon Convention Center. Day two, Tuesday, September 10, 2013, was a golf tournament at the prestigious Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club.
Since its inception in 1991, the B.U.L.L. has raised over $4.9 million for the community’s most valuable assets: our children. The B.U.L.L. Session is now one of Oregon’s largest charity events.
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