The Authors of the OE
Roy Roos has authored two books: Portland's Irvington Neighborhood (1997) and The History of Albina (September 2008), including the neighborhoods of Eliot, Boise, King, Humboldt, Overlook, and Piedmont. Roy came to Oregon in 1987, after studies in architecture, engineering, and forest land management at California Polytechnical University at San Luis Obispo and Humboldt State. He grew up in Sacramento, where he witnessed the destruction of historic buildings and neighborhoods in the name of progress and urban renewal, but which only increased sprawl. In Portland, he has worked as a land surveyor and property manager, and as an advocate of historic preservation.
Kristi Russell graduated Southern Oregon University in 2009 with a baccalaureate of science degree in English and a minor in education. Kristi enjoys learning and writing. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to advance her career in educational policy.
Patricia Saab's enthusiasm for gemstones soared when she discovered the beautiful Oregon sunstone. A 26-year resident of Oregon, a gemstone and pearl scholar, Patricia's jewelry designs often combine this fascinating gem with agate, opal and jasper also mined in Oregon, or with rare pearls.
Henry Sakamoto was born in Portland in 1927. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Oregon in 1951. He spent thirty-two years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture managing and marketing government grain inventories in the seven western states. Following his retirement, he worked for the Oregon Wheat Commission assisting farmers in marketing their wheat inventories. He was also a consultant to the wheat industry. Sakamoto is vice president of Oregon Nikkei Endowment, president of the Japanese Ancestral Society, and past commander of the Oregon Nisei Veterans.
Royce Saltzman is professor emeritus at the University of Oregon. He is co-founder, with Helmuth Rilling, of the Oregon Bach Festival, and presently serves as director emeritus. Saltzman was president of the International Federation for Choral Music, 1985-1993, and president of the American Choral Directors Association, 1979-1981. He is a member of the International Honorary Committee of the Zimriya Festival, a world assembly of choirs in Israel; the advisory board of the Acdaemia Bach de Venezuela in Caracas; and the board of trustees, International Bachakademie, Stuttgart, Germany.
Richard Sanders is a Portland-based writer and editor who left a career in national educational publishing to return to Oregon in 1977 to work as speechwriter for Governor Bob Straub. Since then, he has written Government in Oregon, a high school text, and Glimpses from the Past: The Housing Authority of Portland, Fifty Years of Building a Better Community, and edited several personal memoirs. He has finished a manuscript for a pictorial history of Portland State and currently freelances.
David Sarasohn became an editor and columnist at The Oregonian in 1983. His columns, distributed nationally by the Newhouse News Service, have twice won Best in the West and are included in Best Newspaper Writing, 2008-09. In 2002. he won the Eugene C. Pulliam Editorial Fellowship, a project that became the book Waiting for Lewis and Clark. He received a Ph.D in history from UCLA and also wrote, Party of Reform: Democrats in the Progressive Era. He has taught at Reed College, UCLA, and Portland State University.
John Scanlan is a Language Arts teacher at Sunridge Middle School in Pendleton, Oregon. He has lived and taught in Pendelton since 1997. He has written and published several articles in the Oregon English journal and has a short story included in Bob Sizoo's Teaching Powerful Writing.
Patricia A. Schechter is associate professor of History at Portland State University. Her book Ida B. Wells-Barnett in American Reform, 1880-1930 (Chapel Hill, 2001) won the Sierra Book Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians. She and her students have worked on a number of community-based history projects in Oregon with groups like the YWCA of Greater Portland, the Oregon Nurses Association, and the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Paul Scheerer is a fish biologist for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Native Fish Investigations Project. Paul has worked for the agency for nineteen years focusing on the recovery of Oregon's native nongame fishes. He was the recipient of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Recovery Champion award in 2006 for his work.
