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Directors:
- Ray
Wolpow, co-director,
professor of secondary education at Western, and director of the NWCHE.
- Susan
Redd, co-director,
teacher of world languages at Mt. Vernon High School.
Presenters:
- Noemi Ban, survivor
of the Holocaust and winner of the Washington State Golden Apple Award for teaching
about the Holocaust.
- Robert
Krell, professor
emeritus at the University of British Columbia's department of psychiatry and
survivor of the Holocaust.
- Rabbi Yossi
Liebowitz,
Temple Beth Israel in Bellingham.
- Rene Goldman, professor
of Chinese history at the University of British Columbia.
- Hubert G. Locke,
professor of public affairs at the University of Washington.
- Manfred Vernon,
professor emeritus of political science at Western.
NEH participants wish to remember the late Manfred
Vernon who passed away on April 3, 2001.
- Walter
Suess, professor
of modern and classical languages at Western.
- Patrick Henry,
professor of French Studies at Whitman College.
- Frieda Miller,
education coordinator at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.
- Henry Friedman,
President Emeritus of the Washington State Holocaust Resource Center.
Participating Teachers:
- Diane Leigh, Mt.
Baker School District;
- Deborah Wright,
Mt. Baker School District;
- Brian
Hanrahan,
Mt. Vernon High School;
- Treva King, Anacortes
School District;
- Janet Clark, Anacortes
School District;
- Susan
Weingarten,
Arlington School Disrict;
- David Dickson,
Bellingham School District;
- David Shockley,
Bellingham School District;
- Mitzi Moore, Ferndale
School District;
- Becky
Stockmar,
Ferndale School District;
- Linda
Larrabee,
Burlington-Edison School District;
- Susan
Aarstad,
Burlington-Edison School District;
- Jennifer Caldwell,
Explorations High School, Bellingham;
- Alisa Sachs, Whatcom
Middle School, Bellingham;
Obituary for Manfred Vernon
taken from the Bellingham Herald
Manfred
Vernon, retired Western Washington University professor, former
chairman of its political science department and former chairman of
the Whatcom County Democratic Party, died Thursday, April 5, 2001. He
was 93.
Born May 23, 1907, in Dusseldorf, Germany, Mr. Vernon saw the
impact of World War I on Germany, lost his mother in the Spanish flu
pandemic of 1918, and became a German lawyer. When the Nazis came to
power in 1933, he left Germany for the Netherlands. He emigrated to
the United States in 1939, enlisting in the U.S. Army before Pearl
Harbor and serving with Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines.
In 1946, he married Hally Weis, a child psychologist and day-care
pioneer. She died in February 2000.
After earning his doctorate at Stanford University, Mr. Vernon
taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Alabama,
and served in the State Department under President Truman before
coming to Western. As a Fulbright scholar, he taught for a year in
Turkey at the University of Ankara.
For several years, Mr. Vernon hosted "Outlook," an
interview and discussion TV show on KVOS. He also was one of three
U.S. representatives on the International Joint Commission on Point
Roberts.
After retiring to San Juan Island, Mr. Vernon served on the board
of the San Juan Island Whale Museum, organized conferences, taught for
Elder Hostel and traveled the world with his wife.
When he and his wife returned to Bellingham, he started a
discussion group at Parkway Chateau Retirement Residence, and remained
active in community and university life and at his synagogue, Beth
Israel. He also spoke at schools about the Nazi era.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to social justice,
environmental or international harmony efforts, or to San Juan Island
Whale Museum, the Democratic National Committee or to the Southern
Poverty Law Center.
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