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APRIL, 2010
Retired US Army Pathologist LTC, retired medical researcher, 45 publications.
Boy Scout and Venturing leader; Advisor, Crew 225 & Committee, Troop 225; Tuality District Venturing Chairman & Cascade Pacific Council Venturing Board
Volunteer, Hillsboro Elks Lodge & Red Cross
Youth Fund Raising Chairman, Beaverton Christian Church.
Data analysis, political, social, economic, environmental, etc. issues. Huge data files by state, by county, by city, by neighborhood, by nation, & longitudinal covering wide variety of issues. By state data file has over 5,200 variables, updated almost daily.
Hobbies: Bowling, Hiking, Camping, Canoeing, White Water Rafting, etc.
Divorced in 2004; three adult children: Amy, 31; Jacob, 27; Stephen, 21
Camping in 2008: Royal Family Kids' Camp at Canby Grove -- counselor; Boy Scouts at Camp Easton in Idaho -- first aid & environmental science counselor; Venturing Adventure Trek at Wasco County Fairgrounds near Tygh Valley -- medic for canoeing, white water rafting, and mountain biking races.
Serve as medic at various Boy Scout and Venturing activities; since 1965, I attended OSU with degree in Microbiology; two years in US Army - Field Artillery Fire Direction Control & Engineering OCS; Medical Degree - Oregon Health Sciences University, 1975; Pediatrics Resident & Research Fellow, 1975-1978; US Army Pathologist 1978-1989; Senior Research Fellow, Portland Hand Surgery & Rehabilitation Cener, 1990-1999; IBM - 1999-2000; Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, Health Economics Research, 2000-2003; retired to Boy Scouts & Venturing; activated in 1990-1991 for Operation Desert Shield-Desert Storm, served at 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany; lived i Tacoma, WA, 1978-1982 & El Paso, TX, 1982-1989; took up square dancing in Texas; Associate Advisor, Biomedical Explorer Posts in Portland & El Paso
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ACTIVITIES, AUGUST 2010
I saw Tim Brandenburg, CHS Class of 65, on June 19, 2012, at the First Presbyterian Church in Corvallis at the Celebration of Life for his Mother.Tim is currently Bishop for the Philomath LDS Stake Center and is a retired US Navy Officer, specializing in Hard Hat Diving. Tim & Jane have three children & lots of grandchildren! I cannot find the photos!
My older son Jacob, CHS Class of 1999 (Century High School) is a Reserve US Navy officer, specializing in Sonar Research. He says US Navy sonar research attracts dolphins like flies to sugar & the competing groups of dolphins head butt each other for position next to the Navy ships! Riding the wakes of ships is apparently great fun and well worth fighting over!
I have 36 nights in the sleeping bag so far in 2010! I am a Boy Scout Leader, Crew Committee Chairman for Venturing Crew 225 and Fund Raising Chairman for Troop 225. The latest 5 nights (August 8-13) were at ROYAL FAMILY KIDS CAMP at Canby Grove on the Molalla River! This is a picture of my kids from last year! Mike (bald guy on right) and I had four new kids this year, one of whom was the biggest troublemaker in camp! He was interested in bugs & fishing, and as a naturalist, I was able to identify with him and keep him occupied in productive pursuits, even finding a pickle bucket from the kitchen in which to keep his giant tadpole & crayfish! We were doing the Book of Esther, and we made shields: We were TEAM BRAVE, and the other three boys kept telling IZAC, "You are on our team and we need you!" Izac often was out in deep right field, often in the bushes or even the river! It helped that all four boys were good swimmers and they even allowed us to swim in the river!
AT ADVENURE TREK 2010, HIGH DESERT CHALLENGE OUT OF THE WASCO COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS IN CENTRAL OREGON (August 1-7), THE TEAM FROM CREW 225 (Team 25) CAME IN 8TH OVERALL. No photos back yet! They tied for second in the Whitewater Rafting Race & third in the 25-mile Mountain Biking Race. They lost time & points in the Canoeing Race around Pine Hollow Reservoir because they adults were taking up the orange markers before our second canoe even started the race (we were Team 25 of 25 teams) and in the first leg of the two-day Backpacking Race because the adult who was supposed to direct the hikers at a critical trail junction had already left his post!
I was MEDIC for the nearly 120 youth & 75 adults, mainly making sure nobody got dehydrated or heat exhaustion: I handed out nearly a gallon of water & gatorade per participant per day! We drove over some of the worst forest service roads imaginable! Some spots rounded off to zero miles per hour! I was also driving the youth staff around, including three cute girls, Ashlyn, Ashley, & Chelsea!
We also ran into Ashley as a helpful Forest Service Wilderness Ranger in the Wallowa Mountains! She recently graduated from OSU in Forestry and is now working on a masters degree in Conservation Management!
So Ashley is becoming a common girl's name!
Charles Forslund retired & moved to Bend!
I retired from the US Army, where I was a pathologist & medical researcher! Now I spend most of my time with Scouts, being a Medic and raising funds & fun! I am Medic at Cub Scout Day Camp at Camp Ireland, Medic at Venturing Scout Adventure Trek, Medic at Webelos Woods this coming weekend, and a Merit Badge Counselor for First Aid, Personal Fitness, Emergency Preparedness, etc. Merit Badges! I like to go on hikes and climb mountains! So does Charles Forslund!
Richard Keniston, MD, Retired LTC US Army Medical Corps
IN GOD WE TRUST!
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My 2010 summer camping & hiking record!
1. Boy Scout Outing, Stub Stuart State Park & Banks-Vernonia Linear Trail, 18 miles of hikes (two hikes),June 4-6, youth 11 to 17 years! (I am merit badge counselor for Hiking Merit Badge!)
2. Boy Scout Summer Camp, Camp Meriwether just south of Cape Lookout, July 5-10, youth 11 to 17 years! I helped teach First Aid, Emergency Preparedness, & Personal Fitness merit badges!
3. Mt. St. Helens Blast Area, 18-mile hike, with Charles Forslund, July 14, youth 62 & 63 years! We are continuing our study of natural versus human-assisted reforestation! There is no comparison; the first doesn't work at all; the second works like a charm! (Troop 225 camped on Stimson Lumber Company land in the Coast Range in April & got to see the many benefits of rational scientific management of the our forests! The herds of deer & elk certainly thought there were many benefits to them!)
4. Eagle Cape Wilderness Area, Wallowa Mountains, July 18-23, youth aged 28 & 57 to 63 years! Intrusive igneous granite compares very favorably with extrusive igneous lava & basalt elsewhere in Northwest!
5. Adventure Trek, High Desert Challenge, Central Oregon, out of Wasco County Fairgrounds at Tygh Valley, August 1-7, youth aged 13 to 20 years!
6. Royal Family Kids Camp, Canby Grove, August 8-13, foster kids 6 to 11 years! This year, we had two 10-year old and two 11-year old boys. One was a real handful! Our true stories about police activities (Jim the relief counselor) & pathology cases along the Tex-Mex border (Richard,
7 years as pathologist at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso) kept the kids quiet after lights out! No nightmares, just intelligent questions the next day! The unvarnished truth is far better than scary ghost stories!
7. Troop 225 Boy Scout Outing, Indian Henry Camp on Clackamas River, August 20-22, youth 11 to 17 years! Fishing & hiking opportunities!
Also a lot of our Troop 225 youth & adults went to the 100th Anniversary US National Boy Scout Jamboree at Camp A.P. Hill in Virginia!
Our motto is, "Climb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every rainbow, 'till you find your dream!" There are lots of dreamy places in Oregon & Washington!
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Update April 7, 2015:
I have two grandchildren, children of my older son, Jacob Robert Keniston and his wife, Amy Elizabeth. Ashley Rose was born August 9, 2010, in Hillsboro and Oliver Roland was born February 27,2014 in Seattle, WA. Jacob's family currently lives in Redmond, Washingon, where he works on the Microsoft Campus for Honeywell Aerospace as an Electrical Engineer in accelerometers and thermal sensors. Ashley like computers and hiking and starts to Kindergarten next fall, while Oliver (call him Olaf, which is Norse version) is currently mainly into walking and talking.
