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Willamette Academy admits its new students for a period of five years, beginning at the end of 7th grade.
Willamette Academy
Executive Building
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, Oregon 97301
503-370-6103 voice
503-370-3001 fax
Administrative Staff
Roberto Casarez
William Bragg
Joshua Bilbrew
Chris Hafner
Clarivel Moore-Zaa
Monica Becerril Ugalde
Anthony Kim
Zoe Larmer
Fred SchillaInstructional Staff
Rebecca Moore CLA ’07; MAT ’08Academic Mentors
Jane Albertson ’10"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."--Henry David Thoreau
Major: Math
Minor: Japanese
jalberts@willamette.edu
Margarita Gutierrez ’12
Ryan Sasaki ’10Only you can prevent forest fires!
Major: Mathematics
Minor: Rhetoric and Media Studies
rsasaki@willamette.edu
Leandra Stanley ’13"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix
estanley@willamette.edu
Tutoring Staff
Kali Boehle-Silva ’11"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot
Majors: English & Math
kboehles@willamette.edu
Lucille Kituku ’11"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure" - Marianne Williamson
Majors: Exercise Science & Pre-Medicine
lmulikit@willamette.edu
Cliff Leek ’09"Expand the focus of analysis from merely describing the similarities and differences distinguishing systems of oppression and focus greater attention on how they interconnect. Assume that each system needs the others in order to function and create a distinct theoretical stance that stimulates the rethinking of basic social concepts." - Patricia Hill Collins
cleek@willamette.edu
Dominique Lomax ’10"Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love." from the realm of possibility by David Levithan
Major: Math
Minor: Chinese Studies
dlomax@willamette.edu
Tanor Morinaka ’13Do not pray for challenges equal to your strength, but, strength equal to your challenges.
Major: Undecided
tmorinak@willamette.edu
May OharaLet us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ~Mother Teresa
mohara@willamette.edu
Ismael Perez ’10
Michelle Plapp ’12"Part of where I'm going is knowing where I'm coming from"-Gavin DeGraw
Major: Economics
Minor: Sociology
mplapp@willamette.edu
Stacey Sunken ’10I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney
Major: Environmental Science
Minor: Biology
ssunken@willamette.edu
Volunteer Staff
Hilary Andrus ’10
Irving Corzo
Genora Givens ’13
Jared Green ’11Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask what makes you come fully alive and go do that because what the world needs are people who are fully alive." -Howard Thurman
Major: Physics
mgreen@willamette.edu
Rachel Krow-Boniske
Stephanie Nixon
Dave Reid ’11A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. --Gwendolyn Brooks
Major: History
Minor: Classical Studies
dreid@willamette.edu
Luz Rodriguez ’13"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it" -Edith Wharton
Majors: International Studies & Spanish
Minors: German & American Ethnic Studies
lmrodrig@willamette.edu
Cassandra Ross ’08
Debbie Southorn ’10"The most violent element in society is ignorance. Sing Loud so the world can't ignore anymore!" - Emma Goldman
Major: Music
Minor: American Ethnic Studies
dsouthor@willamette.edu
Rebecca Taylor ’13
Ruth Ubaldo ’11Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it
Major: sociology
rubaldo@willamette.edu
John Weyerhaeuser ’10No matter where you go, There you are. - Buckeroo Banzai
Major: Economics
jweyerha@willamette.edu