The Authors of the OE
K.C. Piccard-Krone is president of the PSU Friends of History, the non-profit organization supporting the mission of the Department of History. A seasoned journalist and on-air radio producer, she also advocates for higher education, the arts, cultural heritage and historic preservation. Her board service includes: Oregon League of Women Voters, OMSI, Loaves and Fishes, Portland Art Museum, Scandinavian Heritage Foundation, Bowers Museum of History, Columbia Symphony Orchestra. 1996 recipient of prestigious White Rose Woman of Achievement Award for Portland and listed in Who's Who of American Women.
Sandy Polishuk is the author of numerous scholarly and literary articles, interviews, and reviews, including Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). She served as an interviewer, producer, and narrator of the DVD "Good Work Sister! Women Shipyard Workers of World War II: An Oral History," a production of the Northwest Women's History Project. She has a BA from the University of Washington and an MLS from the University of Oregon. She has taught oral history at Portland State University. She lives in Portland.
Daniel Pope is professor of history at the University of Oregon. He has published books and articles on American advertising, American radical movements, and, most recently, a failed effort to build five large nuclear power plants in the Pacific Northwest, Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Elisabeth Walton Potter, a native of Salem, is a 1960 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts. She earned master's degrees in art and architectural history and early American culture at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Delaware. A long-time staff member of the State Historic Preservation Office, she coordinated Oregon's nominations to the National Register of Historic Places until retiring in 1998. She is a contributor of notes on Pacific Northwest architects to biographical dictionaries, and her articles appear in such publications as Vaughan and Ferriday's Space Style and Structure: Building in Northwest America.
Dennis M. Powers is emeritus professor of business at Southern Oregon University. He is the author of ten books, numerous magazine and newspaper articles, including published poetry. Among others, his books include The Office Romance—for which he was on a national book tour—and West Coast/Pacific Northwest maritime books as The Raging Sea (the 1964 West Coast tsunami), Treasure Ship (the Brother Jonathan, this Encyclopedia), Sentinel of the Seas (St. George Reef lighthouse), Taking the Sea (the old-time ship wreckers), and Tales of the Seven Seas (about a charismatic sea captain of the nineteenth century) which is being published in 2010.
Lawrence Wade Powers, Ph.D., was educated in biology (B.S., Wayne State University; M.S., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of Texas) and taught at City College of New York, University of Mississippi, University of South Alabama, and Oregon Institute of Technology, and was a Research Associate in Department of Invertebrates at American Museum of Natural History. He also conducted field work in behavioral ecology with marine invertebrates in Bermuda, Florida, South Carolina, and Texas and worked at Crater Lake National Park at the Science and Learning Center. His interests are in Oregon history, fauna, geography, and geology. He is currently the Dean of Health, Arts and Sciences at OIT in Klamath Falls.
Jeff Proulx is one of forty recipients nationwide of the 2010 National Academies of Science Ford Fellowship. He is enrolled in the doctoral program at Oregon State University in Human Development and Family Sciences with a focus on gerontology. Jeff is a graduate of Southern Oregon University with a bachelor's degree in psychology. While at Southern Oregon, Jeff was a McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Scholar, a Diversity Scholar and a member of Psi Chi, the international honor society for psychology.
Elizabeth Provost is a history consultant and researcher in Portland, Oregon. She earned her masters in history from Portland State University, emphasizing in public history studies. Her masters thesis is titled “The Genesis of Portland’s Forest Park: Evolution of an Urban Wilderness.”
Deborah Raber is a fourth-generation native Oregonian from the Rogue River Valley. She completed her undergraduate degree in Economics from Southern Oregon State University in 1976, and her Masters degree in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State in 1984. She has worked for the City of Hillsboro as a planner for over 30 years, on many different projects including projects such as the master plans for Orenco Station, Tuality Hospital, Jones Farm, and Hillsboro Airport. Deborah is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and lives in Hillsboro.
Jarold Ramsey, who grew up on the family ranch near Madras, earned a B.A. from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He taught at the University of Rochester for more than thirty years before he returned to the Madras ranch in 2000. He is the author or editor of many books, including Coyote Was Going There, Reading the Fire, and New Era; four books of poetry; and numerous articles and monographs. His honors include the Don Walker Award, the Helen Bullis Award for Poetry, and the Quarterly Review of Literature International Poetry Prize.
