The study of self

“When I was considering Lewis & Clark, I walked around the campus and noticed that people were dressed very informally,” recalls Fauna Doyle. “It struck me as a place where what you did was more important than what you wore. I liked that.” A junior at Lewis & Clark, Fauna has been busy making every minute count. “I take as many credits as I can possibly take,” she says. “That’s my fun.”

So far, “for fun,” the active communication major from Edmonds, Washington, has taken classes ranging from physics to Rhetoric of Women. She has participated in every Main Stage theatre production. She has sung in the choir, taken voice lessons, and played percussion in the band. She has spent a semester in Ecuador and another in Romania. In the summers she volunteers as a youth camp director on the Coquille Indian Reservation in Coos Bay—Fauna is one-eighth Native American. During the school year, she volunteers in the College’s Mentor Program, working with middle school students in Portland. And occasionally, we have to assume, she sleeps.

“Lewis & Clark provides an environment to find out who you are and what it is that you love to do,” says Fauna, “and that’s something you can take with you wherever you go.”

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