Jim Ojala

Jim Ojala ’69 is a longtime rower who has been active in Whatcom Rowing Association (Bellingham) the past three years. When a fellow member posted a handbill about Allied Arts’ call for submissions in conjunction with this year’s Whatcom Reads! book by Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest at the 1936 Olympics, Jim decided to create a collage in the subject he knows well. Jim’s collage showed at Allied Arts Gallery in February and was then moved to a library in Whatcom County. Jim’s interest in rowing began at PLU, where he earned four varsity letters.