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Paul Pitzer's VITA

Here is my VITA or "vital statistics" and data. Also, be sure to click on the line below to check out the full picture of me and my wife, Grace.

Born

December 11, 1941; Portland, Oregon

Married

January 30, 1971 - Grace Carol Smith
(no children)

Address

PO Box 19113.
Portland, Oregon 97280-0113
e-mail: pcpitzer@attbi.com

 

High School

Theodore Roosevelt High School; Portland, Oregon.

B.S.

Portland State University - 1964

• Attended, Fall of 1960 through Spring, 1964.
  Major: History, emphasis U.S. in Twentieth Century
  Minor: Secondary Education

M.A.

University of Washington - 1969

• Attended Fall of 1964 through Spring, 1966 and
  Fall of 1968 through Spring, 1969
  Field Areas: American West - Vernon Carstensen
  Twentieth Century Russia - Donald W. Treadgold

 

PhD

University of Oregon -

• Attended Fall of 1986 to Spring of 1990
  Advanced to candidacy: May 17, 1988
  Degree completed: June 17, 1990
  Major, United States with emphasis on Pacific
  • Northwest - Richard M. Brown (advisor)

  Minors, Russian History - Gustave Alef

  • Modern Europe - George Sheridan

Career

United States Peace Corps

• Summer, 1966 through Summer, 1968
  Iran - East Azarbaijan Ostan [state]
  TEFL (Teacher of English as a Foreign Language)
  Served at "His Imperial Majesty Mohammad Reza Shah
  • Pahlavi Shah 'n Shah Ariamehr High School" and at the
    United States Information Service, Tabriz, Iran

Substitute Teacher, Seattle Public Schools for the school year 1968-1969.

Beaverton Public Schools, District # 48J, Beaverton, Oregon
Full time tenured employee from Summer 1969 to June 2000
Teacher of United States History, Advanced Placement American History, Consumer Economics, Comparative World Religion; coach of Swimming and Water Polo
Retired, officially, March 1, 1999, actually on June 16, 2000.

 

University of Oregon, Graduate Teaching Fellowship, school year of 1987 to 1988.

New Career - Aqua Aerobics Instructor with the Portland Parks Bureau
Started March 2000. Certified Aquatic Exercise Association, June 2000.

Travel

 

Summer, 1966	Western Europe, Iran
Summer, 1967	Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon
Spring, 1968	South and Central Iran, Qshm (Persian Gulf)
Summer, 1968	USSR, Finland, Western Europe
Summer, 1970	Central and Western Canada
Summer, 1971	Western Europe, USSR, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria
Summer, 1975	Great Britain
Summer, 1978	Western Europe
Summer, 1980	England, Greece, Egypt, Israel, Rhodes
Summer, 1982	Japan, People's Republic of China, Thailand, Hong Kong
Summer, 1984	Australia, Tahiti, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii
Summer, 1991	Japan, 30 day teacher exchange program, Numazu Area, Katoh Gakuin School
Summer, 1992	Japan, 30 days as chaperone with students on school exchange, Gotemba.
March, 1996	Caribbean (Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Barts, St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda)
Summer, 1996	S.E. Alaska cruise
Summer, 1997	South America (Ecuador including the Galapagos Islands and Peru including Machu Picchu)
March, 1998	Mexico Cruise, included Cozomel, Cancun
Summer, 1998	Hawaii including Kona, Maui, and Waikiki
March, 1999	Caribbean Cruise (included Barbados, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, Atnigua).
Summer, 1999	China including Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai, Wuhan, Yangtze River (cruise), Chungking, Guilin, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong.
March, 2000	Caribbean Cruise (including Cozumel, Cancun in Mexico and the Bay Island of Roatan in Honduras)
October, 2000	Panama Canal Cruise from Vancouver, British Columbia to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida including stops at Victoria, San Francisco, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Zihuatanejo, Acapulco, Santa Cruz Huatulco, Puntarenas (Costa Rica), Cartagena (Colombia), Grand Cayman Island (19 days).
February, 2001	Orlando, Florida - Walt Disney World Belize, Central America - snorkeling on the off-shore reefs.
April, 2001	California, Arizona (Green Valley), Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Las Vegas.
September-October 2001	Cruise, Western Europe (Included Estonia, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Holland, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy (five weeks total0
January 2002	Argentina, Antarctica Cruise (Lindblad Expeditions) for two weeks, Igussau Falls and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
October/November 2002	Tahiti and French Polynesia (cruise, Society Expeditions) which included Moorea, Bora Bora, Matavia, Ahe, Ua Pou, Hiva Oa, and Fatu Hiva followed by New Zeland protectorates Pitcairn Island, Henderson Island, and Ducie Island, and finally Easter Island (Chile) (24 days total).
February 2003	A week-long snorkeling expedition to Bonaire, an island in the Netherlands Antilies off the coast of Venezuela.
July 2003	Travel to Norway, and then north of the Arctic Circle to the Island Complex of Svalbard and the town of Longyearbyen, onto the boat Endeavour with Lindblad Expeditions for one week of cruising, then four days in Iceland on the way home
November 2003	Cancun and Playa del Carmen, Mexico
May 2004	Fiji, Vanuatu (New Hebridies), New Guinea, Micronesia, Guam

Publications

"Hamlin Garland and Burton Babcock," Pacific Northwest Quarterly (University of Washington) 56 (April, 1965) pages 86-88.

Building the Skagit. Lake Grove, Oregon: The Galley Press, 1978.

"The Atmosphere Tasted Like Turnips: The Pacific Northwest Dust Storm of 1933," Pacific Northwest Quarterly 79 (April, 1988), pages 50-55.

"The Mystique of Grand Coulee Dam and the Reality of the Columbia Basin Project," Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History (Washington State Historical Society) 4 (Summer 1990), pages 28-38. Reprinted in William L. Lang, editor, A Columbia River Reader (Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1992), pp. 58-62.

"Dorothy McCullough Lee: The Successes and Failures of Dotty Go-Good," Oregon Historical Quarterly 91 (Spring 1990), pages 4-42.

"A Farm-In-A-Day: The Publicity Stunt and the Celebrations that Initiated the Columbia Basin Project," Pacific Northwest Quarterly 82 (January 1991) pages 2-7.

"The Old Skagit Tour," Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 7 (Summer 1993), pp. 7-15.

"A Technological Breakthrough: On the Cutting Edge of Disaster," The History Teacher 27 (February 1994), pp. 223- 228.

Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream, Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press, 1994.

"Pink Elephants on the Wilamette: The Story of Jack 'Thanks a Million' Matlack" Oregon Historical Quarterly, 96 (Summer-Fall, 1995), pp. 136-191.

"The Columbia Basin Farmers: They Called Floyd Dominy a Four-Flusher." Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, Spring 1996, pp. 6-11.

 

 

 

A caricature of me as done by Jack Ohman, editorial cartoonist for the Oregonian.