The Pioneer Log, March 4, 2011 Features 7

ISLC presents International Fair Perspectives: Joyce Justice

BY LAURA NASH “Even looking at the menu is making
News Editor me hungry!” exclaimed Kumthekar with a A weekly look into the thoughts of people within and outside of Lewis & Clark
squeal of delighted anticipation. Helens or JFK’s assassination and realizing it
BY JULIA STEWART
No need to board a plane or cross the bor- At 2 p.m., the International Fair will Opinions Editor was so many years ago is mind-blowing.
der: this weekend, the 46th Annual Interna- continue in Flanagan Chapel with a fashion
tional Fair will transform an ordinary Sat- show and other performances. Kumthekar Do you feel like most of your thoughts
urday on campus into a festive celebration will take part in a Bollywood number. An- are in the past, present, or future?
of the 63 countries represented by Lewis & other member of ISLC, Kim Takinami (’13) The present, as far as ‘what will I do to-
Clark students. leads a J-pop (Japanese pop music) dance day, this week etc?’ But I like to remember
Vice President of the International group, and takes part in a K-pop (Korean past events, and am grateful I still have the
Students of Lewis & Clark (ISLC) Neha pop music) dance group, both of which will ability to remember.
Kumthekar (’13) has been busy preparing perform.
the event, hoping to attract as many partici- These groups were put together some- Has the process of getting older and,
pants and spectators as possible and to satisfy what informally. “Someone said that they having to move slower, affected how much
everyone. wanted to do this dance by AKB, but they you observe, notice and/or appreciate
The 63 countries were divided into 12 didn’t know how to dance, and I said ‘Oh! I about what is around you?
regions: China, Japan, South Korea, South know how to dance!’” said Takinami. Yes. I have free time now that I didn’t
Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, the They have been practicing two to three when I was raising five children, taking care
Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, West- times a week since the beginning of the se- of a big house and involved with their activi-
ern Europe, North America and Latin Amer- mester. ties at church, school, clubs etc.  I have time
ica. “Each region has someone called country Although the International Fair does not to knit, take naps, read, watch TV, etc.
chairs… This is the person who leads their coincide with Parents’ Weekend this year as
group, and I lead them,” said Kumthekar. it has in the past, ISLC still expects a fair Do you think that, depending on what
Don’t expect waffles or scrambled eggs turnout, including alumni, faculty and staff age you are, you are going to have a differ-
at brunch tomorrow morning. Instead, you in addition to on-campus students. ent understanding of time?
will find booths in both Fields Dining Hall This Saturday will mark the culmination I am 78 now and wish I still had the en-
and Stamm Dining Room serving foods of 46 years of tradition, the joint efforts of PHOTO BY JULIA STEWART ergy and opportunity to travel, and that I
from each of the 12 regions. Representatives students from all over the world, countless will be here to see my grandchildren and two
Joyce Justice lives in Portland at a retirement home.
from each region will begin their prepara- hours of preparation and the unquantifi- great grandchildren grow up. 
She enjoys her free time now that she’s 78.
tions tonight, and arrive at Templeton early able enjoyment of participants and fairgoers
tomorrow to make sure everything is perfect. alike. As a follow-up to last week’s Perspectives Do you ever wish that you were young

LC History: From
column—which featured 11-year-old Chan- again?
dler Gilges’ experience and understanding of Only  to the  extent of being healthier,
time—78-year-old Joyce Justice shares what and maybe handling some situations a little
time feels like to her. While Gilges said his differently, but I have had a good life with

Christian Trade School thoughts were often in the future, Justice’s

thoughts are situated in the present; and
while Gilges associates old age with laying on
many blessings and few regrets.  I would not
want to re-live major surgeries, the death of
my parents and husband, our home burn-

to Hippies on a Hill
a bed all day and an ensuing boredom, Jus- ing down, a traffic accident, the fear [I had]
tice is embracing the free time she has after when my grand child was  seriously ill  and
leading a full and busy life. the setbacks that have occurred over many
Do days feel fast or slow to you?  years.  
A weekly column dedicated to digging up the college’s past Sometimes they are slow but I appreciate
the relaxed pace. When you watch young people running,
biking or being physically active, what
What about years, do they go quickly or crosses your mind?
slowly? How fortunate they are to probably have
As we age, years go by quickly. Little a long life ahead, and I wish the best for
kids feel like Christmases are three years them—that they make good choices, not use
apart, but [older people] are amazed...[is it] drugs and set an example for future genera-
the holidays already? Hearing about Mt. St. tions. 

Mind the Gap honors donors

BY DARYA WATNICK The endowment and the money earned from
Features Editor the annual fund covers the remaining 25
This year’s incarnation of Tuition Free- percent.
dom Day, called Mind the Gap will honor “A lot of people think that to be a phi-
donors who help the school fill their budget lanthropist means giving millions of dollars,
deficit on a yearly basis. being Bill Gates and setting up a foundation,
On Mar. 9, student volunteers and staff but what a lot of people don’t know for us is
of the Annual Fund will be handing out participation in the annual fund counts just
doughnuts and encouraging students to as much as the dollar amount,” said Assistant
“[The] creativity of Akin Hall is displayed by this gigantic peace symbol.” That winter saw enough
write thank you notes, similar to last year’s Director of Annual Giving Simone Wren
snow to truly play in. Photograph taken from the 1969 Voyageur, Lewis & Clark’s yearbook.
program. New this year will be a video con- (’10) about how rankings use alumni partici-
BY MICAH LEINBACH College is a Christian liberal arts college— fessional for students to record their senti- pation in giving as a way to rate alumni sat-
Staff Writer by conviction,” but 1960 was the beginning ments of gratitude and posters highlighting isfaction. Foundations and corporations also
of the end of that. Changes were rocking who donors are and why they give money to look at this number when deciding to give
1959 was like any other year at Lewis & the nation, and LC was not free from their the school. out grants.
Clark College if the Voyageur, the school’s influence. The “gap” the school needs to be filled is “It’s not necessarily the giant million dol-
yearbook, is any guide. It features the same The ’62 Voyageur demonstrates these because student tuition and fees only cover lar gifts that are most important to us. We‘re
well dressed ladies and gentlemen in suits, changes. In 1960, its dedication had gone 75 percent of the school’s operating budget. really looking for particpation,” said Wren.
the same fraternities and sororities and the to Odell, but just two years later, it went ADVERTISEMENT
same President. Mowrgan Odell had presid- to peace. “Man has increased his ability to
ed over LC for 18 years, back to 1942 when make power,” it reads, “but not peace. Peace
LC first moved from downtown Portland to comes naturally to the campus at night, but
the Fir Acres property on Palatine Hill. lasting world peace is something man has
Odell spent the first 10 years of his presi- not yet been able to achieve.”
dency on campus living in the President’s The controversies came to campus in the
House (now the Alumni Gatehouse). Post- form of speakers as well. Gus Hall, presi-
World War II educational grants and G.I. dent of the American Communist Party,
bills had created a surge in demand for the “told us that America is on the road to
college experience that Odell helped facili- Communism,” according to the Voyageur.
tate. These were booming years for LC, but His very presence indicated a leftward tilt in
by 1960 it was a time for a change. the College’s politics.
No change was more explicit than the Other movements made their way onto
change of president from the old and ex- campus as well. One particularly famous
perienced Odell to 37-year-old John Ray- speaker, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., ad-
mond Howard, one of the youngest college dressed students at a convocation “in a
presidents in the world. manner that was at the same time question-
At his first annual academic retreat he ing, determined, and encouraging.”
spoke to his associates, saying, according By 1969, a transition was clear. The
to historian Martha Montague, “I wish to Voyageur was filled with poetry and pictures
present you now an invitation… to spend showing barefoot students sleeping on sun-
the rest of your professional life in the most swept lawns or playing games of frisbee in
thrilling assignment that life can offer a the reflecting pool. Flannel shirts and gui-
teacher—the building of the country’s very tars, now notorious, replaced suits; more
finest college.” than a few pictures show students playing
Howard affirmed that “Lewis and Clark in the mud. The LC of today was on its way.