Before I give you the result, I should back up a little bit. Last week SOU’s football team played Menlo at home. SOU’s lead in that game evaporated in the 4th quarter, and we all went home unhappy.

This week’s game had carbon copy written all over it with SOU jumping out to a 13-0 lead against Western Oregon University. WOU came back and moved ahead by one with just a few minutes left. It looked to be over until a bobbled catch on a 4th down and 12 put SOU in field goal range. Tyler Crowley easily made a 42-yard field goal earlier in the game so this shorter kick looked like a piece-of-cake, last-second victory for the Raiders.

A split second after I took this picture the ball did not go through the uprights, and we all went home unhappy once again.

Posted on October 2nd, 2010 under people. Tags: Southern Oregon University, sports. Comments Off on And the field goal to win the game is….

Today I went back to school to teach my first face-to-face course at Southern Oregon University in over a year. There is nothing like that first-day-of-school feeling.

Posted on September 27th, 2010 under places. Tags: Southern Oregon University. Comments: 1

If today’s photo looks familiar then you have a good memory. I took a similar photo two years ago of Jess Kuehlwein doing basically the same thing from a different angle.

The SOU women’s soccer team is off to their best start ever (4-1-1 as of this writing). They won this game, against Linfield College, in overtime 1-0.

Posted on September 13th, 2010 under people. Tags: Southern Oregon University, sports. Comments Off on Jessica Kuehlwein

The old SOU logo is being replaced with a new one. The one in today’s photo will likely be replaced in the next month. The art buildings can be seen in the background.

I always thought the old logo was supposed to represent the mountains, but I recently heard that they are supposed to be the windows in Churchill Hall. A photo or two of the new SOU logo will be coming here soon.

The weather has been really great in Ashland since returning from hot and humid Tokyo. Every day the highs have been in the 80s, lows in the 50s, and best of all no humidity. The humidity is about the only thing I don’t miss about Japan.

Posted on August 11th, 2010 under places. Tags: signs, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Old SOU logo

Most people don’t know that back in 1912, Hellmann’s mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.

This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.

The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.

The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.

Posted on May 5th, 2010 under only in ashland, people, places. Tags: Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Cinco de Mayo

From Dennis Dunleavy’s collection…

Posted on December 20th, 2009 under only in ashland, places. Tags: buildings, snow, Southern Oregon University, winter. Comments: 2

I still haven’t figured out how to use WordPress’s gallery feature very well. I was hoping that when you clicked on one of the above images you’d get a large image and be able to navigate to the next picture. You can’t, unfortunately. You can get a large image if you click the picture and then click it again on the next page though.

After attending eight straight SOU graduations, I’m going to miss next year’s commencement since I will be out of the country. I think already missing next year caused me to take more pictures than normal this year. 😉

Pictures from Southern Oregon University’s 2008 graduation ceremony can be seen here.

Posted on June 13th, 2009 under only in ashland, people. Tags: clouds, commencement, grizzly peak, mountains, people, skywatch, Southern Oregon University. Comments: 2

Let’s wrap of a week of photographs from SOU’s International Show with several pictures from the International Fashion Show that took place at the end of the program.

The above picture is of Ixel, a former student of mine who ran the show (and got my kids and I in). As it turns out Ixel is not only a fantastic student and athlete, but she can also moonlight as a runway model to boot.

Posted on May 15th, 2009 under people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on International Fashion Show (7 of 7)

Tiazza is another former student of mine. (Why is it that accounting majors show up in SOU’s International Show so often doing something so completely different than accounting?)

Posted on May 14th, 2009 under people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Belly Dancers (6 of 7)