The words passed easily over my lips as I prompted my brother Lucas with another line of 1 Corinthians 13. Like so many Catlin Gabel School (CGS) students before him, he stood before me, nervously practicing his first recitation for his ninth grade English class. He didn’t know that this would be his first and only recitation with a religious context.
Read More“We got known as a place to go to get incredible food...We created a buzz that literally didn't just happen here; it happened world wide,” said local food cart expert Scott Bachelar, who is known as the “Mayor of Food Cart Town.”
Read MoreMemes have woven themselves into popular culture, but where did they come from, and what makes a meme a meme?
Read MoreNintendo successfully joined the video game world with the creation of the famous red-capped plumber, Mario. Nintendo’s most famous video game character, first appeared in their arcade game Donkey Kong in 1981 as a carpenter named “Jumpman.”
Read MoreDave Whitson has taken a yearlong sabbatical from Catlin Gabel School (CGS) to walk the American Discovery Trail (ADT), which was the first coast-to-coast walking route across the United States and spans over 7000 miles.
Read MoreHistoric Hayward Field, longtime home of the Oregon Ducks Track and Field program, is currently under construction.
Read MoreResearch has shown that high levels of yerba mate consumption may be linked to cancer, potentially causing concerns for the many Catlin Gabel School students who regularly enjoy Guayaki yerba mate, a specific brand of tea commonly found in the United States.
Read More“I decided on moving to Portland before I had a job lined up. So it was the place before the job.” Kofi Obeng is Catlin’s Coordinator of Multicultural Programs and Youth Partnerships. He moved to Portland a few years ago, and has since been working with Portland youth through Catlin and the CENTER.
It’s a chilly winter evening in Portland. Zeng Yang half-kneels before a student, no taller than four feet and no older than nine years of age. Inside the warehouse converted gym, the student wears a red belt over the uniform of white pants and a tucked purple t-shirt. Even as he kneels, Zeng is about the same height as the student.
Read More“I don't think I have a home anymore,” says forty-four-year-old Mini Sharma Ogle who lives in Portland, Oregon with her two young children, husband, and parents.
Read MoreHe waves his wand and shouts expelliarmus from the top of the stairs as I walk in. I hear a crash as a book goes flying from his mom’s hand through the air. “Mom, be nice to the books!” he reminds her with a tone of excited authority – ironic coming from an eight-year-old to his author mom.
“Woah!” I exclaim with mock amazement.
Our goal of going down to Dawson Park was to ask a wide variety of visitors about this park. We asked them, “What does this park mean to you? What memories do you have of this park? What do you think about calling parts of this park ‘kid-friendly’ and ‘sketchy’?”
Read More“It used to be that when I lived in Illinois, I would return to Spain to visit my family. I told my friends there I was ‘going home.’ Spain was my home. Once I moved to Portland and bought a house, this city became our home. Now, I visit my family in Murcia, but I do not ‘go home’.”
Read More“It was mostly an accident,” says George Crandall, thinking back to his early days.
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, I interviewed Crandall, a wise older gentleman with round glasses and wispy gray hair.
Read More“Where are you from?”
It’s a question that can hold more significance than we often realize.
For some, the answer is as simple as naming a city. For others, there may be more than one answer or no clear answer at all.
Read MoreMany people know Peggy Schauffler simply as the Lower School Art Teacher who is soft spoken, who enjoys being out in nature with her students and finding the best creative outlets for them, and who almost exclusively wears stunning blues and greens. For me, she has been all of those things and also my long time friend.
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