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Karen Huck's Cascade adventure is made for communicating
By Mary Ann Cook
CASCADE ADVENTURE: It's called Cascade Couples Adventure, subtitled "A Sexy Summer Vacation in Central Oregon." It's a combination course of white-water rafting and relationship building that is taught by Saratoga High School grad ('71) Karen Huck.
Huck is an associate professor of communication at Central Oregon Community College in Bend. She has taught interpersonal and small group communication for 14 years. Huck received her doctorate in communication from the University of Utah in 1993.
The week-long adventure she created will be held July 24-28. It features five mornings of Hot Monogamy skills training and three afternoons of guided outdoor activities, such as hiking and white-water rafting. Hot Monogamy is based on the work of Dr. Patricia Love, a marriage and family therapist from Texas.
When Huck and her husband read Love's book after their 22nd wedding anniversary they were sold, especially Huck. "It's sexy and it worked for us, so I wanted to share it with others," Huck says. She took Hot Monogamy training from Love two years ago.
HM is a program designed for married couples who want to revive the intimacy and sexuality they may have lost. Huck's number is 541.383.7525; her e-mail is luvdoc@bendnet.com. Registration is due by June 15. The cost is $375 per person.
TO ISRAEL: Joe and Kathy Cusick recently returned from an Elderhostel trip to Israel that they proclaim to be a fine trip and one they would recommend. "It's only when you get back that it sinks in--the significance of what you've done," assesses Kathy.
Titled "Israel in the Time of Jesus," the trip covers one week in Galilee and one in Jerusalem. At each juncture they had "excellent lecturers and guides and interesting field trips," says Kathy. In Jerusalem it was dry and brown and filled with Byzantine churches.
Housed in a kibbutz, the Cusicks went jeeping with friends to the Golan Heights, where the environs were green and cultivated. In Jerusalem they stayed in a hotel run by a kibbutz. They visited Old Jerusalem but it was so full of cars that it took a stretch of the imagination to picture it in Jesus' time.
Other sites and sights were the ruins at Canaan, Nazareth and the Garden Tomb. Also Roman ruins, St. Peter's house in Canforna and a dig with one lone dead tree where Jesus Christ Superstar was filmed. The trip enhanced their understanding of the Bible. So, too, did a stop at the Biblical Studies Resource Center, where a Biblical garden was recreated. There the agricultural methods were explained, a tomb replicated and a bedouin tent display made of goat hair.
A meal of what the Last Supper may have been like was part of the tour. The meal included lamb stew, hard-boiled eggs, a side dish of ground apples, spices and raisins--a meal meant to symbolize the Exodus.
TEEN AWARD: Ansley Shrigley, a student at Menlo School, was honored by the YWCA recently for her work with the Global Children's Organization. Shrigley, 17, has worked with AIDS-infected children in Romania and is well aware of the plight of orphans there.
She conducted an all-school assembly and enlisted others in her cause. She is a leader in the San Mateo Youth Service Council. The award, the Voice of Our Future, is given for leadership, commitment and inspiration. She is the daughter of Dave and Anita Shrigley of Los Gatos.
NONPROFIT FORMING: A new chapter of the National Assistance League is underway and an invitational coffee will be held on May 31, at 10 a.m. at the Los Gatos History Club, 123 Los Gatos Blvd. National representatives will meet to explain its charities and benefits to the community.
Those on the steering committee are Ann Bennett, Jill Bess, Carol Garnett, Sonja Haws, Gail Hehir, Terre Hepurn, Angela King, Mary Landers, Sharon McCall, Becky McEntee, Loretta Rosengarten, Susan Swartz, Mary Swentzel, Gail Veeder and Peggy Yetter.
Chrystie DeSoto is the steering committee chairwoman. Call 408.356.7376 for more information.
DEANS' LIST: Students named to the Dean's List at the University of Oregon include Molly Miranda Vaden of Monte Sereno, a freshman, a fine and applied arts major; and Benjamin H. Champion, a senior from Saratoga majoring in Spanish.
CORRECTION: Candi Avlakeotes received the Bob Clayton Heart and Soul Award from ARIS. Unfortunately, the "l" looked like an "i" on material I received, so her name was misspelled in a recent column. It's Candi Avlakeotes. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
NEW POSITION: Bob Lowry, a former principal of Fisher Middle School, has been appointed assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in the Campbell High School District. He was assistant superintendent in the Sunnyvale District for six years.
He also served in the Alum Rock district for 17 years, as principal, curriculum coordinator, reading specialist and seventh-grade teacher. In each of the three districts he was the liaison between the district and the high school.
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