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| Cathie Harrison Walks for Cancer |
| CIRI shareholder Cathie Harrison, of Coupeville, Wash., signed up for the Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk, which will be held the weekend of Aug. 10, 2001. This walk is held in nine major cities in the U.S., and for the first time is scheduled in Seattle. The money raised by participants will support non-profit health programs including cancer research, mammograms for women in rural areas, and treatment for those without health insurance to help some of the one-in-nine women in the U.S. diagnosed with breast cancer. |
| Karen Reeve Committed to Education |
| CIRI shareholder Karen Reeve has been the principal at Airport Heights Elementary School for seven years. At her school, California Achievement Test scores on math, language arts and reading have gone up at a remarkable rate. Reeve attributes this success to the team effort of children, their parents and the Airport Heights Elementary school staff. While the high academic test scores are just getting noticed, according to Reeve for everyone involved with the elementary school, it has taken time, commitment and effort to get there.
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Reeve is of Aleut, Russian and Norwegian heritage and was born in Seward, Alaska. She is related to the Juliussens of Kenai. Coincidentally, while growing up in the Anchorage area, Reeve went to school at Airport Heights Elementary. After she graduated from East High, she worked for several years in the kitchen at the old Alaska Native Medical Center. From there, she double-majored in elementary education and Alaska Native studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage. In 1980, she started teaching and was hired at the Indian Education Program as a resource teacher. Around the same time, she worked for the Johnson OšMalley Summer Camp program.
When her son was born, she took time off and decided to go back to school. In 1991, she earned her masteršs degree in public school administration. Afterwards she taught, interned at Bowman Elementary and was an assistant principal at Mountain View Elementary School before moving on to Airport Heights. |
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Reeve acknowledges both John Kito, who is the principal of Tyson Elementary School, and Tony Harduar, a retired Anchorage principal, with mentoring her on how to be a good educator. She also credits her mom, Marjorie Juliussen, and her grandmother, Helen Malcolm, with inspiring her to become a teacher and a principal. Her grandmother was raised at the Jesse Lee Home and worked at the Alaska Native Medical Center. Her mother, valedictorian of her high school class in Seward, was one of the first women to graduate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she earned a teaching degree.
According to Reeve, an important skill she has learned as a principal is how to mediate for those who are in conflict. While this, at times, is challenging, it is rewarding to work towards and to reach a tenable compromise for everyone involved. Still for Reeve, her most important priority is the children. She says, "At Airport Heights we all work together to give the kids the positive support they need to be successful now and in the future." |
| Baby Shane |
| Shane Joseph Shuck was born Feb. 1, 2001, at St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way, Wash. He weighed seven pounds, 13 ounces and was 20 1/4 inches long at birth. Shane's parents are CIRI shareholder Leanne and Rob Shuck. Shane joins siblings Evan and Derek. His grandparents are CIRI shareholder Roberta and Tom Hallam of Auburn, Wash., Robert and Beverly Ashmore of Des Moines, Wash., and Rocky and Pam Shuck of Auburn, Wash. His great grandparents are CIRI shareholder Robert Ekstrom of Shirleyville, Alaska, Grace Murphy of Anchorage, Bob and Rita Peters of Palmer, Alaska, and Armond and Ruby Porter of Grants Pass, Oregon. |
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| Baby Corey |
| Corey Lee Vickroy Jr. was born on June 26, 2000, at 1:21 p.m. in Milwaukie, Oregon. He weighed eight pounds and was 20 inches long. Corey is the first child and son of CIRI shareholder Debra Lynn Vickroy and her husband Corey Lee. He is the fourteenth grandchild of the late shareholder Mary Pauline Benedict Langley of Anchorage. |
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| Juliana Stephan Places 3rd in Contest |
| A portrait of her grandfather, Sava Stephan, taken by CIRI descendant and East High School senior Juliana Stephan recently placed third in the Fur Rondy Amateur Photo Contest, Junior class division for black and white portraits. Juliana Stephan is the granddaughter of 81-year-old Sava Stephan, a Tyonek Native Corp. shareholder living at the Mary Conrad Center, and daughter of Isaac Stephan, a CIRI and Tyonek Native Corp. shareholder. |
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| Dorothy Jo and Orville Ray McMullen Celebrate 26th Anniversary |
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CIRI shareholder Dorothy Jo and husband Orville Ray McMullen recently celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary on Jan. 18 in Washington. |
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