Connor Gabor
When Connor Gabor was four, his parents were divorced in Reno, and he moved to Eugene with his mother. “My dad was physically abusive,” he … Continue reading
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Joy Marshall (revisited)
November 2004: The daughter of a Unitarian minister in Birmingham, Michigan, Joy Marshall grew up walking picket lines. “By age 6 or 7, I was … Continue reading
Karen Daly
June 1999: As a kid in suburban New Jersey, Karen Daly loved rollerskating, jump rope and hopscotch. Her childhood ended abruptly at age 8, when … Continue reading
Ron Wold (revisited)
November 2013: “Our family hobby was rock hunting,” says Ron Wold, who grew up in Beaverton and majored in geology at Amherst. He got a master’s … Continue reading
Suman Barkhas
March 2008: Growing up in a yurt on the outskirts of Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, Suman Barkhas began training in yoga at age 13, when a … Continue reading
Mike Shugrue
After high school in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and a brief stint at nearby Worcester State College, Mike Shugrue hit the road and hitchhiked around the country … Continue reading
Roger Ebbage (revisited)
January 2000: “I was exposed to solar technology as a carpenter in the ’70s,” says Roger Ebbage, director of Lane Community College’s Energy Management Program. “I … Continue reading
Claudia Riumalló and Ricardo Cárdenas
When she was five years old, Claudia Riumalló traveled with her family from Chile to Boston for her father’s Ph.D. maternal malnutrition research at MIT. … Continue reading
Ralph McDonald
When Ralph McDonald’s job as national sales manager for Eugene’s Percon Inc., maker of hand-held scanners, went away after the company was sold in 2001, … Continue reading
Andy Traisman
“I was born and raised in suburban Chicago,” says Andy Traisman, whose T-shirt inscription in Latin, “Eamus Catuli,” translates as, “Let’s go, Cubs!” Traisman is … Continue reading