The Authors of the OE
Karl Klooster is a native Oregonian and the great-great-grand nephew of the founder of East Portland, James B. Stephens. He graduated from Lewis & Clark College and worked as an advertising and marketing executive in Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco, specializing in wines, beer, and spirits. He is a professional writer on wine, food, travel, biographical profiles, and social commentary, writes a weekly column for This Week Magazine, and is the Regional Editor and Wine Columnist for News-Register Publishing. He has authored two books on Portland history and is a guest lecturer on local history. He has earned writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Assn, and the National Newspaper Assn.
David Kludas, who lives in Portland, is a history buff who writes in his spare time. He is chipping away on a novel that takes place in Portland and concludes at the Oregon Centennial.
Jim Kopp is director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College. His scholarly interests are in utopian and communal studies, and is the author of Eden Within Eden: Oregon’s Utopian Heritage (OSU Press, 2009). Jim has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon, a master’s in history from the University of Portland, a master’s in library science from The Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in American Studies from George Washington University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Aurora Colony Historical Society.
Peter Kopp is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental history at the University of Nevada, Reno. His dissertation, "Hop Country: The Evolution of an Oregon Specialty Crop," examines the relationship between cultural practices and nature. He has recently published in Green Theory and Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy and The Nevada Society Historical Quarterly.
Sue Kopp is the director of the Otto F. Linn Library at Warner Pacific College. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon in Fine Arts and a Masters of Science in Library Science from Columbia University in New York, N.Y. A native Oregonian, Sue returned to Oregon in 1994 after a number of positions across the country.
Michiko Kornhauser, president of Ikebana International Portland Chapter 47 from 2007 to 2009, has also volunteered at the Japanese Garden Society, the Portland Art Museum, and the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center since her move to Portland in 1986. She is a fermentation chemistry graduate from Okayama University and did graduate work at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. Recently she attained a professorship in Japanese calligraphy from the Genwa Japanese Calligraphy Association in Japan.
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.
