UNIVERSITY YEARS Eric and Jari and I moved to Eugene in the late summer of 1965. We got a small apartment and I enrolled in the University of Oregon School of Architecture, a three year program after the two years…
CATEGORY: UNIVERSITY YEARSPHOTOS: THE BARN EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR When we moved to Eugene, I rented out my Tumalo house. It gave me some badly needed income. However, I retained use of the barn and the barnyard, which had an…
CATEGORY: UNIVERSITY YEARS PHOTOS: BOB AND ILLUSTRATED LETTERS I met Bob Anderson at a party in Bend during the Christmas/New Year holiday season of 1966. I was spending the holidays in my barn. He had come from Portland to stay…
My first date with Bob after I got back to Eugene was the White Water Parade.
As I was approaching my corner, I suddenly heard running foot steps behind me: RIGHT behind me.
After pondering awhile I decide to go to the party backwards.
Enno and Lorne were both in my design class. Both of them were tall and nice looking. That is where the resemblance ended. Enno was a blue eyed blonde. Lorne was a brown eyed brunette. Enno was full of sunshine.…
Enno was one of the best designers in design class and made wonderful, artful presentations.
In my second year of architecture, one of our design problems was to design a kindergarten.
All of the rest of the time I was in school, Bob wrote me wonderful illustrated letters. Receiving one always made me giddy with delight, There is no describing them, so I have included a sample.
For my project, I chose to work with the old Pilot Butte Inn, which was then empty and boarded up.
William Kleinsasser was my assigned adviser. He had played football for Princeton and been a friend and classmate of Mike Shannon's. I found out that Mike had actually written to him and told him about me as a kind of…
...near Albany I would notice a sign in large white letters on a red background that read COME TO ALBANY, THE BRIGHTEST SPOT IN OREGON'S FUTURE. Right behind it like a great mechanical dragon, was one of the dirtiest, smelliest…