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WINTER ’13 17 UP CLOSE UP CLOSE Alice-in-Wonderland Wonderer, Memorabilia Collector TIM KING General Books/Computer Shop Buyer. WU Arrival: 1999 “I’ve been intrigued by the writings of Lewis Carroll since I first read Alice in my twenties. Around the same time I spotted a small glass ornament at a gift shop downtown, and as anyone with a collection can attest, once friends and family get work, things tend to grow exponentially.” ALTER EGOS Singer/Songwriter True North Band member KRISTEN GRAINGER Vice President and Executive Assistant to the President. WU Arrival: 2002 “For a singer-songwriter like me, it’s a real privilege to [work] around so many creative people. I always walk through the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center on my way to and from my office, just to listen in.” tinyurl.com/kgdwtn THE SCENE — WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY 16 The Hidden Lives of Campus Characters Willamette is full of renaissance people, as the four here show us. Who knew that there are such creative, nostalgic, crafty and imaginative people all around us? Lego Architect, Construction Project Foreman (see cover photo) CHUCK WILLIAMSON Professor of Chemistry. WU Arrival: 2005 “Legos were a significant part of my childhood, to the point that my mother would often have to shoo me outside for what she called ‘big- muscle time.’ Both of my sons are Lego aficionados as well.” Sportsman, Hunter, Collector of Early-20th-Century Firearms JOHN PEEL Irene Gerlinger Swindells Professor of Music; Composer-in-Residence. WU Arrival: 1990 “It goes back to a connection with my father. We hunted together when I was young. I grew up with the ethics of the fair chase, respect for the quarry — and an aesthetic respect for gun-makers’ fine skills.” ABOUT THE ARTIST Call it alter ego number five: Annie Aguirre ’10 also happens to be a web designer at Willamette.

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WINTER ’13 17

UP CLOSE

UP CLOSE

Alice-in-Wonderland Wonderer, Memorabilia Collector

TIM KINGGeneral Books/Computer Shop Buyer. WU Arrival: 1999

“I’ve been intrigued by the writings of Lewis Carroll since I first read Alice in my twenties. Around the same time I spotted a small glass ornament at a gift shop downtown, and as anyone with a collection can attest, once friends and family get work, things tend to grow exponentially.”

a lt e r e g o s

Singer/Songwriter True North Band member

KRISTEN GRAINGERVice President and Executive Assistant to the President. WU Arrival: 2002

“For a singer-songwriter like me, it’s a real privilege to [work] around so many creative people. I always walk through the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center on my way to and from my office, just to listen in.”

tinyurl.com/kgdwtn

THE SCENE — WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY 16

The Hidden Lives of Campus CharactersWillamette is full of renaissance people, as the four here show us. Who knew that there are such creative, nostalgic, crafty and imaginative people all around us?

Lego Architect, Construction Project Foreman (see cover photo)

CHUCK WILLIAMSONProfessor of Chemistry. WU Arrival: 2005

“Legos were a significant part of my childhood, to the point that my mother would often have to shoo me outside for what she called ‘big-muscle time.’ Both of my sons are Lego aficionados as well.”

Sportsman, Hunter, Collector of Early-20th-Century Firearms

JOHN PEELIrene Gerlinger Swindells Professor of Music; Composer-in-Residence. WU Arrival: 1990

“It goes back to a connection with my father. We hunted together when I was young. I grew up with the ethics of the fair chase, respect for the quarry — and an aesthetic respect for gun-makers’ fine skills.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Call it alter ego number five: Annie Aguirre ’10

also happens to be a web designer at Willamette.