Willamette University News

After the hubbub of the holidays is past, we are left with the doldrums of January and the anticipation of a New Year.

With the future all about sustainability, more than 50 people attended a Community Energy Forum earlier this month, sponsored by the city of Salem.

MetroArts Inc is an educational organization dedicated to promoting life-long learning for everyone through the arts.

Even after Walt Edmonds earned a law degree from Willamette University, he said, "I didn't go there with the intent of becoming a lawyer." But when Edmonds retires from the Oregon Court of Appeals at the end of this year, he will close a legal career of more than four decades, 35 years of it as a trial and appellate judge.

The Salem Chamber Orchestra, through a partnership between Willamette University and the Salem-Keizer community, enriches the Willamette Valley by promoting classical music that entertains, educates, and provides performance opportunities for Willamette students and area musicians.

David Holton, owner of David Holton Design at 4742 Liberty Road S #210, has been appointed by Gov.

Willamette University President M. Lee Pelton touted the liberal arts school's support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, its emphasis on sustainability and its role as a conduit to the arts in an address to the Salem City Club.

Salem is blessed to be a college town. That was evident from Willamette University President M. Lee President's talk Friday at the Salem City Club.

Abiqua School recently hired Susie Lee, a longtime Salem educator, as head of school - a position she has filled on an interim basis since the beginning of the school year.

A mixed crowd of community members and students sipped hot chocolate and munched on cookies, sang Christmas carols and witnessed the lighting of the Sequoia trees on the State Street side of Willamette University's campus as part of the 13th Annual Star Trees Lighting and Holiday Dinner on Saturday evening.

The future of Willamette University is the topic of the next Salem City Club forum.

The antidote to earworms is good music. If you expect to live free of those annoying holiday ditties that lodge in your brain for hours, you simply can't spend all of this month in shopping malls.

Anytime is a good time to get fancy, wear beautifully tailored clothes, go out for a nice dinner and just act more elegantly than you do in your day-to-day life.

You might not know this, but Salem is lucky enough to have a place that, should you kiss there, is said to ensure true love.

'Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden,' a major retrospective by an internationally recognized jewelry artist from Seattle, is the next show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Salem Audubon Society and the Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society of Willamette University will host 'What Field Guides Don't Tell You' at the Dec.

In the beginning, there was darkness. And then, all of a sudden, there were lights - about a zillion of them.

Science teacher Kevin Zerzan is in his element in the classroom with teens. Gladstone High science teacher Kevin Zerzan can't stand to be the center of attention.

'Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden,' a major retrospective by an internationally recognized jewelry artist from Seattle, is the next show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Jane Taylor of Portland with husband Bruce , scan the "6x6 Wild Art Project" deciding which $40 piece of art to take home.