<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.17109" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 12pt Garamond"><SPAN style="FONT: 12pt Garamond; COLOR: #000000">
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">In this Issue:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">1. Diamonds in the Rough Update Featured on Heritage Exchange<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">2. Potential Mentors Sought for Planned Project<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">3. HPLO Announces 2012 Most Endangered Places<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">4. Oregon’s Native American Art Subject of Tillamook Talk<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">5. Rachelle Saltzman Named OFN Executive Director</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">6. ONE Selects Lynn Fuchigami Longfellow as Executive Director<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH UPDATE FEATURED ON HERITAGE EXCHANGE<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">The beginning of Preservation Month brought out some lovely days to kick off preservation projects funded by the Diamonds in the Rough Preserving Oregon Grant. The grant’s purpose was to reveal long-covered historic facades or features and repair them. One project is well underway; another is complete. Read the rest of the story at the Oregon Heritage Exchange blog at <A href="http://www.oregonheritage.wordpress.com/">www.oregonheritage.wordpress.com</A> . <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">POTENTIAL MENTORS SOUGHT FOR PLANNED PROJECT<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Beginning in September, the Oregon MentorCorps will form for training to assist archives, museums and libraries in the state with collections care and emergency planning.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">The MentorCorps project is the result of unprecedented cooperation focused on collections during the past years by library, museum and archival organizations, including federally recognized tribes in Oregon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The project is an outgrowth of the Connecting to Collections Project.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">You can become a mentor and help others in nearby communities preserve their most important collections. The size of the MentorCorps will depend on the amount of funds raised to support the effort.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">More information about the MentorCorps and an application are available at <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/OHC/C2C.shtml</SPAN></U><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>. More information is also available from Kyle Jansson at 503-986-0673.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">HPLO ANNOUNCES 2012 MOST ENDANGERED PLACES<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">The Historic Preservation League of Oregon recently announced the Most Endangered Places for 2012. Oregon’s Most Endangered Places is an annual register of historic buildings, structures, districts, sites, and landscapes that need a little extra attention to survive and see the second phase of their lives.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Endangered places can include the most strikingly ornate house in town; a bridge that has crossed your favorite stretch of river for a century; the oldest grocery store in the county or a landscape that has been home to human activity long before settlers arrived. It could also be a brick apartment building that was once the studio of a famous author. In cases where we save these places, communities become richer through their preservation and continued use. But, the fact is, significant places regularly disappear from the map due to blatant neglect, unnecessary demolition, zealous development, and natural factors.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Nominated by citizens across Oregon and selected on a competitive basis, the list of Most Endangered Places receives year-long technical support from the staff and experienced volunteers of the Historic Preservation League of Oregon. This year’s list includes the <A href="http://www.historicpreservationleague.org/mep_Carousel.php"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Jantzen Beach Carousel - Portland</SPAN></A>; <A href="http://www.historicpreservationleague.org/mep_IceHouse.php"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Ice House - Eagle Point</SPAN></A>; <A href="http://www.historicpreservationleague.org/mep_NetShed.php"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Uppertown Net Shed - Astoria</SPAN></A>; <A href="http://www.historicpreservationleague.org/mep_OldTown.php"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Skidmore/Old Town Historic District - Portland</SPAN></A>; <A href="http://www.historicpreservationleague.org/mep_RivoliTheater.php"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Rivoli Theater - Pendleton</SPAN></A>; <A href="http://www.historicpreservationleague.org/mep_SmokeHouse.php"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Rosemont Farm Smokehouse - Yamhill</SPAN></A>; <A href="http://www.historicpreservationleague.org/mep_StFrancis.php"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">St. Francis Hotel - Albany</SPAN></A>; <A href="http://www.historicpreservationleague.org/mep_Viewpoint.php"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">View Point Inn - Corbett</SPAN></A>; and <A href="http://www.historicpreservationleague.org/mep_WillametteFalls.php"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Willamette Falls Locks - West Linn</SPAN></A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Visit <A href="http://www.historicpreservationleague.org/endangered.php">www.historicpreservationleague.org/endangered.php</A> to learn more about <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State>’s Most Endangered Places.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">OREGON</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">’S NATIVE AMERICAN ART SUBJECT OF TILLAMOOK TALK<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Tracy Prince will explore Native art and how it relates <st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State>’s history and culture in conjunction with the exhibit, “Weaving Traditions,” at 1 p.m., May 26, at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Pioneer</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">2106 Second St.</st1:address></st1:Street>, Tillamook. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Prince, a Portland State University scholar-in-residence, studies traditions that have survived the suppression of Native identity and customs. Her book Portland’s Goose Hollow explores the history of Native, Chinese Irish, German, and Jewish residents of one of Portland’s oldest neighborhoods.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">For more information, call (503) 842-4553, email at <A href="mailto:director@tcpm.org" target=_blank>director@tcpm.org</A> or visit <A href="http://www.tcpm.org/" target=_blank>www.tcpm.org</A> .</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">RACHELLE SALTZMAN NAMED OFN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Dr. Rachelle Saltzman will begin work as the new Oregon Folklife Network (OFN) Executive Director on July 2. She brings extensive experience in both public and academic folklore to the position, which requires her to oversee all OFN programs and operations. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Saltzman served as the Folklife Coordinator, Grants Administrator, and Accessibility Coordinator for the Iowa Arts Council, a Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, for seventeen years. She also worked broadly in the field of public folklore at private non-profit and state agencies in eight states.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This is an exciting development for the Oregon Folklife Network, which is making a significant impact in the state of <st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State> and at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Oregon</st1:PlaceName> with its mission to document, sustain and promote <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State>’s folklife and cultural heritage through research and public programming. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To learn more, visit <A href="http://ofn.uoregon.edu/">http://ofn.uoregon.edu</A> .</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">ONE SELECTS LYNN FUCHIGAMI LONGFELLOW AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A name=OLE_LINK1></A><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Oregon Nikkei Endowment (ONE) has hired Lynn Fuchigami Longfellow as its new Executive Director. </SPAN>Longfellow will assume leadership of the organization and serve as community advocate on behalf of the Nikkei in Oregon beginning June 1.<SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: JA"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Longfellow brings a strong history of active involvement with both business and community Nikkei organizations in Oregon. She served for over 20 years with the Japan-America Society of Oregon and is currently a board member of the Portland chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. She also recently chaired the banquet celebrating the award of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Nisei veterans of World War II. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">“ONE continues to grow its programs and presence in the Oregon community,” said Interim Board President Dr. Connie Masuoka. “Lynn is the perfect candidate to maintain our momentum and expand ONE’s scope and influence even further.” To learn more about ONE, visit <A href="http://www.oregonnikkei.org/">www.oregonnikkei.org</A> .</SPAN><BR><BR><BR>-----------------<BR><BR>For a complete list of Historic Preservation Month events, go to www.oregonheritage.org/OPRD/HCD/calendar.shtml .<BR><BR>Keep up with the latest issues and trends by following our blog at oregonheritage.wordpress.com<BR><BR>Oregon Heritage News is a service of the Oregon Heritage Commission. Contact us by emailing heritage.info@state.or.us .<BR></SPAN></BODY></HTML>