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Hannon Library celebrates its 65th anniversary as a Federal Depository Library with an event featuring faculty, student and guest speakers, an art exhibit of works created during the 2017 Bureau of Land Management-sponsored Artist-in-Residence program, and an open wine and cheese reception with all of the participating presenters and artists. This event will highlight the Cascade-Siskiyou bioregion, including the history of the area, related studies, and the education activities available about these lands.

Thursday, April 26, 2018
Presentations – 2 pm to 5:20 pm
Q&A Panel – 5:25 pm to 5:45 pm
Reception – 5:50 pm to 7:30 pm

For the complete event schedule, see this event overview. Presentations and reception will take place in Meese Room (LIB 305). Exhibit and demonstrations will be located in the third floor Taylor Mezzanine.

Special thanks goes to the Friends of Hannon Library for supporting this event, as well as to EdenVale, Schultz and Weisinger Family wineries for their generous donations.

More Information

This event is free and open to the public. Attendees can get free campus parking by using the following code with SOU’s parking meters or PayByPhone app: LIB547. (How To Use Parking Codes)

For more information, contact Library Administration at libraryevents@sou.edu or 541-552-6816. If you need disability accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Disability Resources at 541-552-6213 or dss@sou.edu.

Meet the Presenters

Christine Beekman has served as Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument’s Interpretive Specialist since 2015. Before that she spent 12 years as the Chief of Interpretation at Pecos National Historical Park near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Prior, she was the Education Specialist for the Southeast Utah Group of National Parks (i.e. Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Hovenweep and Natural Bridges National Monuments).

Hope Braithwaite came to SOU because she wanted to further her education in natural history and teaching in a place that had excellent outdoor opportunities. She enjoyed education and biology courses, designing and implementing an environmental education program with her colleagues, and conducting research on dragonflies and damselflies of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

Jad D’Allura earned his Ph.D. in geology from UC Davis.  He worked for Texaco, spent a summer working at the JPL on earth imagery, and taught geology at SOU for 33 years before retiring. He currently teaches part time and supports the SOU Chemistry Department. He has been working in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument for most of his career and has finished a general map of the original Monument.

Linda Hilligoss currently holds a joint appointment in the School of  Education and the Environmental Education department. She also worked with Crater Lake National Park as the Education Coordinator for the Science & Learning Center and serves on state and national committees to promote science and environmental education.  Her research areas are in place-based education and teacher professional development with a focus on helping educators use the outdoors as an engaging learning laboratory.

Stewart Janes is professor of Environmental Education at SOU. His research interests include ornithology and the function of bird songs, raptor ecology, and the impact of forest management practices on bird populations.

Jeff LaLande graduated from Georgetown University in 1969 and later earned a PhD in American history at the University of Oregon. He had a 30-year career with the US Forest Service as an archaeologist and historian, and he is the author of several books and a number of published articles on the history of the region.

Suphasiri Muttamara (a.k.a. Jam) is from Bangkok, Thailand. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Conservation Biology from Mahidol University, Thailand, she worked with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as a project junior consultant in the mountains of the Northern region in Thailand. There, she worked with local schools, and students to develop ecotourism, and a curriculum that included the forest ecosystem that influences the community. Realizing education is the best way to conserve nature, she is now a graduate student in the M.S. in Environmental Education program at SOU.

Mabrie Ormes has always felt a passionate response to the visual world, and once she became a visual artist she never looked back. That was 45 years ago, and she still believes in Art’s power to influence the direction of history. She calls herself an all-American artist since she has lived in every region of the country. She is also proud to be a woman artist, whose point of view is “slant”: different, new, and needed if we are gracefully to negotiate the turns and tensions in our 21st century relations to each other and our planet.

Michael Parker is an aquatic ecologist, professor and former chair of the Biology Program at SOU where he teaches courses in Aquatic Ecology, Fish & Fisheries, Vertebrate Natural History and Herpetology. His research focuses on the conservation of aquatic organisms and the environments that sustain them.  He has been actively involved in research within the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, including a long-term study of a rare and federally-listed population of Oregon spotted frogs. 

Chelsea Rose is an historical archaeologist with the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology (SOULA). She focuses her research on the settlement and development of the west.

Darlene Southworth retired from SOU as Professor Emerita of Biology and, along with scientific research, eventually discovered art through watercolor. Her painting has evolved from journal sketching to larger, more composed images. She experiments with color and technique of paint application to create innovative patterns and mosaics.

Matt Witt is a photographer and writer in Talent and has been Artist in Residence at Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Crater Lake National Park, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, and PLAYA at Summer Lake, Oregon. His work may be seen at MattWittPhotography.com.

This event is hosted by Dotty Ormes, Government Information/Instruction Librarian at SOU’s Hannon Library. She also covers the subject specialties of Art, English, Political Science, Theater and Shakespeare Studies. She is a strong believer in free public access to government information, and she created the 65th anniversary event at Hannon Library to promote unique government resources that are available for SOU faculty and student research and for the public at large.

Government Publications Department

Hannon Library received the Depository Library of the Year Award in 2004 for its digital collection of significant government publications about the unique Southern Oregon bioregion. These collections will be featured as part of the anniversary celebration. Library displays will also address the importance of free access to government information, especially congressional information for student research and for community members, emphasizing the library’s role as the Federal Depository Library for the 2nd Congressional District of Oregon.