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On behalf of the Eugene Rotary club, he was a co-creator and designer of the Inspirational Invocation book to raise funds for the organization’s community programs. The book was subsequently adopted by the national Rotary organization.
Leonard was enthusiastic and honored to have been invited to join the board of Reality Kitchen. He had been following the progress of the organization over the years through his long-time friendship with its founder, Jim Evangelista. According to Leonard, “Reality Kitchen is a vital resource not only for our community; but it also has the potential of becoming a model for the entire country. Its practical approach and hands-on curriculum is an excellent way to provide real-world work-skills and life-skills to the developmentally disabled community. I have seen with my own eyes the joy and dignity in its students when they have the ability to express themselves through the pride of work.”
Leonard is an avid vegetable gardener, loves to dance and ski, and can often be found on weekends at the top of Spencer Butte.
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Finding new ways to communicate and share my interests and experiences led me to become involved in classes where we learn to make videos and films. I really enjoy working with others on film making and will be exploring this more as a Reality Kitchen Board member.
I first became involved with Reality Kitchen when I took classes there and gain skills and training in customer service and cooking. I particularly enjoyed baking pastries, cakes and pies. I really like working with others at the restaurant and being part of the organization because of the supports and opportunities that they provide to people with disabilities. Because they create a social environment where people can meet and talk and learn from each other, I look forward to helping them in the future and benefitting from my ongoing connection with Reality Kitchen.
For people with disabilities, finding “work friends” and having a social life through work is very challenging. Regular people do not make an effort to connect with people with disabilities. Catherine says that being a social and engaging organization, building community, is Reality Kitchen’s mission. I would like to support Eugene becoming more inclusive and compassionate toward all people with disabilities and life challenges and hope to be part of changing the way people with many different abilities work and learn together.
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Sheila strongly believes that people can greatly increase their ability to have a healthy, happy, life by having friends, social fun, and meaningful work. She also believes in the benefits of good food and exercise and is currently a Special Olympics coach for a basketball and a track and field team.
Sheila has specialized skills in developing one page profiles and person centered plans. She also works as a behavior specialist and was part of the pilot program when Positive Behavior Support was developed at the University of Oregon. She has been a developer and facilitator for PBS at her school sites.
Committed to supporting non-profits, agencies, and businesses to work together for the good of all people in our community, Sheila has served on the boards of the Arc of Lane County, Rideable, and currently on the board of KindTree-Autism Rocks. She looks for ways to networks with local support agencies, arts programs and businesses in Lane County toward a goal of equity and well-being for all citizens.
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His Gender and Families extended his analysis of the ways that parenting and gender are socially constructed, with an added emphasis on the role of popular culture and media. Coltrane’s co-authored Sociology of Marriage and the Family (with Randall Collins of the University of Pennsylvania), now in its fifth edition, is widely regarded as one of the most theoretical and historical of all family sociology texts, as is his edited collection, Families and Society. Coltrane has had over 100 articles, chapters, and related works published, with notable publications in leading academic journals including the American Journal of Sociology, Social
Problems, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Family Relations, Sex Roles, and Gender and Society. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health; the National Institute of Child Health and Development; the Spencer Foundation; the Business and Professional Women’s Foundation, the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute; the University of California, Riverside; and the University of Oregon.
Coltrane’s contributions to scholarship on gender and families have been recognized in his election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, his membership on the Council on Contemporary Families, various roles in the American Sociological Association and the National Council on Family Relations, and through election to office as President of the Pacific Sociological Association and Vice President of the California Sociological Association. He received the Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award from the University of California Riverside where he also chaired the Department of Sociology and served as a founder and Associate Director of the Center for Family Studies. He served as
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, and then as Associate Dean for Social Sciences in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at UCR before accepting the position of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon in 2008.
