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On the cover

Dell Hymes ’50 (reflected in truck mirror, left) and Hiram Smith, a Wasco informant, on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Central Oregon, 1951. (Suzzallo Library, University of Washington–Seattle)

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Features

David French at Warm Springs  

Listening to Indians

On a dry and dusty plateau 100 miles east of Portland, anthropologists David (’39) and Kay French schooled a generation of Reed students in the art of listening. The scholars they trained on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation went on to rock the worlds of anthropology, linguistics, and poetry in America.
By Robert E. Moore ’82

     
David French '39  

Live/Work Space

The lights were never dim in the off-campus study of David and Kay French.
By Stephanie Snyder ’91

     
Allen Ginsberg  

When the Beats Came Back

A literary sleuth reveals how a 1956 road trip by Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder helped shape Ginsberg’s “Howl,” and how Reed ended up with the earliest-known recording of the legendary poem.
By John Suiter

     
Philip Whalen  

What Whalen Saw

While Ginsberg and Snyder were road-tripping to Reed, Philip Whalen ’51 stayed behind in Berkeley. And wrote more poetry. An excerpt from the introduction to The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen.
By Leslie Scalapino ’66

     
Dell  Hymes  

Ways We Speak

Dell Hymes ’50 cut his teeth studying the Wasco language at Warm Springs. He went on to challenge Chomsky and his allies on the relationship between language and culture in his seminal work on sociolinguistics.
By Rebecca Koffman

     

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From the Editor

Last issue, I suggested in this space that readers listen to the stories of World War II veterans. Soon after the magazine landed in mailboxes, I got the opportunity myself, when Charles Hindman of Lake Oswego, Oregon, walked into our office with a well-worn manila envelope in his hand… Read more.

Letters

Read letters from:
Dan Denvir ’05, Mitchell Tribbett ’04,
Bob Putnam AMP ’44, Robert Chanaud
Robert Reynolds, David Levin ’66
Jerome Radding ’43, David Levin ’66
Jerome Radding ’43, Gus Tanaka ’45
Michael Munk ’56, Craig Gunsul ’63
Constance Putnam ’65, Daniel Lovejoy ’05
Sterling Paramore ’02, Greg Shirley ’86
David L. Perry ’73, Peter Glusker ’58
Peter Hall ’68, Jonathan S. Feld ’74

Class Notes

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Reediana

Read about books by Reedies. You can purchase these and other books through Reed's bookstore.

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Endpaper

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Seven Excuses for Not Attending Reunions and Seven Reasons Why You Should
By Jane Neff Rollins ’73

Professor Pock, archive photo

Philip Whalen ’51, Jerry Heiserman, Thomas Jackrell, Portland, Oregon, July, 1963

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