September 29, 2016
Tags: Lakem Duckem, Walla Walla, Whitman College
This is the third in a series posts about a 40th Whitman College reunion that begins with Walla Walla Begin Again. On Saturday morning were the class photos, the parade of classes and convocation. For the photos we all congregated on the steps of “Mem,” the Memorial Building, a truly iconic structure to Whitman students. Read the Rest…
May 5, 2012
Tags: Edward MacDowell, Lakem Duckem, Sputnik, Walla Walla, Whitman College
I am taking a break from raging against the Catholic church and breathing feminist fire to sing a little song of Walla Walla, Washington. I am here to do a book signing at Book and Game Co on Main Street and to stay with my college roommate Putzer, the attorney, and her husband, Jim. My Read the Rest…
March 25, 2011
Tags: Lakem Duckem, Walla Walla, Whitman College
A few years ago I spent two inert hours sitting at the duck pond on the Whitman College campus in Walla Walla. It was 109 degrees which is why I was inert. The two hours produced a poem. The poem was printed in this quarter’s Whitman College alumni magazine. Lakem Duckem gets its name from Read the Rest…