The Authors of the OE
George Kramer is the principal of Kramer & Company, a historic preservation consulting firm based in Ashland. He has written extensively on the historic significance of industrial, commercial, and transportation facilities in Oregon since 1989. Kramer is the chair of the Oregon Heritage Commission and an advisor emeritus to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Ronald Kramer worked in broadcasting at radio stations in Cleveland and Chicago and as a director for the ABC Radio Network, before settling into teaching radio and television, initially at Lewis and Clark College in Portland and later at Southern Oregon University (SOU) in Ashland. He has served as Executive Director of SOU’s 22-station public radio network, Jefferson Public Radio, since 1974, while also consulting for the Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and a variety of other organizations. He is the author of Pioneer Mikes: A History of Radio and Television in Oregon.
Susanna Kuo is a writer and researcher with an interest in industrial archaeology and traditional crafts. She led the seven-year effort to preserve the Oswego Iron Furnace and served as a consultant during three archaeological investigations of the site. She holds a Ph.D in English and folklore from Indiana University. Her recent projects include interpretive panels for Lake Oswego's George Rogers Park and co-editing The Diary of Will Pomeroy: A Boy's Life in 1883 Oswego, Oregon (2009).
Paula Kuttner is a native Californian who relocated to Oregon in 1961. She lived briefly in Talent and Medford and spent 5 years in Coos Bay before moving to The Dalles in 1970. She has been active with the Wasco County Historical Society for many years, and in 1987 began work at Fort Dalles Museum where she now serves as Director.
Joan Kent Kvitka, who holds two master’s degrees, is education director of the Portland Classical Chinese Garden. She has taken the Chinese Garden and culture into classrooms across Oregon’s rural and small-town communities and has developed an extensive multi-disciplinary K-12 curriculum on Chinese culture. Kvitka taught for twenty-eight years in the Portland Public Schools, during which time she developed an exchange program between Wilson High School and Suzhou High School. The Chinese Garden curriculum is found on the Portland Chinese Garden Web site.
Jeff LaLande graduated from Georgetown University in 1969. For over thirty years, he was archaeologist and historian for the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. With a master’s degree in archaeology from Oregon State University and a Ph.D. in history from University of Oregon, Jeff has been an adjunct faculty member at Southern Oregon University for twenty years. The author of numerous articles and several books, he enjoys learning and writing about a wide range of Northwest history topics and is an active board member of several statewide and community organizations.
Larry Landis has been university archivist at Oregon State University since 1996 and is a recent recipient of the Oregon Heritage Excellence Award. He was instrumental in establishing the Oregon Multicultural Archives at OSU and the Northwest Digital Archives. As a native of Indiana, he sees some similarities between the two states—both have a strong agriculture and beautiful summers (though a bit more hot and humid in Indiana) and the Oregon constitution was based in part on Indiana's.
J. Carl Laney is professor of biblical literature at Western Seminary (Portland, OR), where he has served since 1977. He grew up in Eugene and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1970. He earned an M.Div. and Th.M. degrees at Western Seminary and completed doctoral studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in 1978. Carl has served as visiting professor in seminaries in the Philippines and in The Netherlands and has served as interim pastor in numerous churches. He is the author of fifteen books and numerous articles and regularly takes students to Israel to study.
Frank A. Lang is emeritus professor at Southern Oregon University, where he taught systematic botany, plant ecology, conservation of natural resources, and biological illustration. He holds degrees from Oregon State College (B.S.), University of Washington (M.S.), and University of British Columbia (Ph.D.). He is associate editor of Kalmiopsis, the journal of the Native Plant Society of Oregon, and studies the vegetation and flora of the Klamath Ecoregion. He serves on the Jackson County Natural Resources Advisory Committee, the Medford District Bureau of Land Management Natural Resources Advisory Committee, and the Board of the Crater Lake Natural History Association.
William L. Lang is professor of history at Portland State University and the founding director of the Center for Columbia River History. He is the author and editor of many books and articles on the Columbia River and the Pacific Northwest and is co-editor of The Oregon Encyclopedia.
