The Authors of the OE
Anita McClain Haley has served on faculty at Lewis & Clark College in Portland and retired as a full professor in the College of Education at Pacific University in Forest Grove.
Tiffany A. McCormack has worked as a community editor for Juneau Empire newspaper in Alaska and as a senior editor for a research-based online publication for the past two years. Presently she is a Ronald E. McNair scholar at Southern Oregon University anticipating graduating with her baccalaureate in English in 2010. She is planning on attending graduate school to pursue her love of research, writing and literature.
Floyd J. McKay, Ph.D., is emeritus professor in the Department of Journalism at Western Washington University. He was news analyst for KGW-TV in Portland and a reporter for the Oregon Statesman. He is the author of Reporting the Pacific Northwest and An Editor for Oregon: Charles A. Sprague and the Politics of Change.
Pat McMillan came to Oregon across the “trail” from Colorado via Texas. She and her friends spent many years entertaining school children with their original puppet plays. The family’s sheep provided wool for her spinning demonstrations of the dying art. Following a career as museum/tourism director for Klamath County, she retired to the Favell Museum and serves as curator. For nine years, Pat was honored to be a member of the Oregon Heritage Commission. Her interests revolve around reading, cooking, antiques and research which has currently taken a turn toward family genealogy.
David Milholland is co-founder and president of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. Born in 1946 in Greeley, Colorado, Milholland moved to Lakeview in Oregon’s high desert just before kindergarten. The eldest offspring of life-long educators, Milholland thrived for a decade in Lakeview’s brisk, mile-high air. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala before receiving a B.A. in 1971 from Lewis & Clark College. A Portland resident and prize-winning filmmaker, editor, and author, Milholland won the 2004 Stewart Holbrook Award for “significant contributions to Oregon’s literary arts.”
Geneva Miller is a freelance writer and regular contributor to the Bandon Western World newspaper. She has lived in Bandon for more than a decade.
Merle Miller was born in 1930 and raised on a ranch in the Burns area. He graduated in 1951 from the Oregon Institute of Technology with a degree in watchmaking, spent 2 years in the U.S. Air Force, worked 16 years as a watchmaker, and served 22 years with the Oregon State Parks and Recreation. He married Patricia Seely in 1951; the couple have 4 children. He currently resides in La Grande and serves the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers (SDOP) as Membership Chairman and Editor of their newsletter. His hobbies include genealogy, restoring clocks and furniture, hunting, camping, and being with his family.
Stephen Most is an author, playwright, and documentary filmmaker. Films he scripted include the Emmy-winning Wonders of Nature and the Academy Award nominee Berkeley in the Sixties. He wrote and produced River of Renewal, which won a film festival "best documentary feature" award, and he is the author of River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin (University of Washington Press and OHS Press). Most also wrote the texts and scripts for the permanent exhibit of the Washington State History Museum. His plays include Poe, Medicine Show, Raven's Seed, Watershed, A Free Country, and Forces of Nature.
Jeremy Mouat is a historian living in western Canada, where he is chair of the department of Social Sciences at the University of Alberta’s Augustana Campus, in Camrose, Alberta. Although originally from British Columbia, his career as a historian began in New Zealand, where he did a BA by correspondence while working as a heavy equipment operator. He later returned to Canada, and in 1988 completed his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are chiefly in mining history and the history of technology, and he has been interested in Herbert Hoover’s career as a mining engineer.
Joanne B. Mulcahy has taught at the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College for over twenty years. As director of the Oregon Folklife Program (1988-1991), she documented stories and vernacular arts in many Oregon communities. She has published essays in numerous journals and anthologies, including These United States and The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West. Mulcahy is writing a biography of Eva Castellañoz, a Mexicana folk artist and healer from eastern Oregon. She has been privileged to document some of the stories and arts that enliven every Oregon community.
