John C. Pierce

The Child of a Dustbowl- and depression-buffeted family, John Pierce was raised amidst hope and roots in the lowland forests and prairies of western Washington. Three decades of toil in universities on all edges of the country have never separated him from that earlier life. Pierce loves streams toon meer and rivers and their intermingled movement and stability. Life on that moving water has helped teach him who he is and why. His reflections on rivers have bound him tightly both to his past and to his future, and to the people around him. President Bill Clinton appointed him a trustee of the Columbus Foundation, and Governor Mike Lowry appointed him to the board of the Washington Commission on the Humanities. He served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Washington State University in Pullman, and now is Vice Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where he lives with his wife Ardith. toon minder