PSU Magazine Fall 1992

'77 William Barlow is a real estate broker with The Northwest Real Estate Company in Portland. Barlow handles commercial and residential sales and acquisitions. Scott Magness is assistant vice president of the commercial ser– vices group for U.S. Bank in Portland. Lauriette Nielsen has received a master's degree in psychiatric mental health nursing from Oregon Health Sciences University. Mercedes Niiranen writes that she is the manager of Oaks Pioneer Church in Portland. Niiranen also serves as a musician at the chapel. Meridel Prideaux has been named president of the Portland Association of Advertising Agen– cies for the 1992-93 term. Prideaux is senior vice president of Prideaux Sullivan Pattison Inc., Advertising and Public Relations. '78 William Layton MS is a middle school counselor at Talmadge Middle School in Independence, Ore. Layton, who has spent 22 years in the field of education, writes that he enjoys working with sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in the Central School District. Richard M. Morris III MBA recently received the 1992 Out– standing Institute of Industrial Engineers Publication Award. Morris, president ofR.M. Morris and Associates, a management consulting firm in Dayton, Ohio, received the award for a series of articles he had published in In– dustrial Management magazine. Twyla Wallace is a massage therapist with her own private practice in Portland. 24PSU '79 Susan Brenner is back in Portland after a 12-year absence. Brenner, who received a master's degree in education from Boston University, has spent the past 10 years teaching English as a second language in Boston, Madrid, and Santa Barbara. She is now working as a sales repre– sentative for Peacetree Recycled Paper in Portland. Michael Fajer MST is the in– dustrial hygienist for Brown and Caldwell Consu ltants' North– west region. The company provides consulting services in environmental engineering and hazardous material management. Ellen Howard has written her ninth book for children, The Cel– lar, published by Athenaeum Publishers. Howard lives in Kalamazoo, Mich. Lee Jenkins has been elected to the board of directors of Columbia River Girl Scout Council. Jenkins, a recreation instructor for Portland Parks & Recreation, is also a member of the PSU Alum– ni Board of Directors. He is based at North Portland's University Park Community Center. Claudia Long '82 MSW is Spokane agency branch manager and a social worker for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Long, who lives in Wellpinit, Wash., is taking part in a federal program for Women in Executive Leader– ship (W.E.L.). She will spend the next year in the program traveling back and forth to Washington, D.C. Joseph Opsahl has been promoted to vice president of in– vestments at Smith, Barney, Har– ris, Upham & Co., in Portland. '80 Sara Allison MBA is a sales as– sociate for The Realty Group Inc., in their main office in northwest Portland. Steven Edwards is assistant sec– tion head of the Transmissible Diseases Department for the American Red Cross in Portland. Suzanne Hannam is a senior management information analyst for the city of Portland's Bureau of Emergency Communications. Hannam was promoted to senior management tatus after develop– ing an accurate master street address guide for the emergency 9-1-1 computer network. '81 Brijesh Anand MBA is a manager at Andersen Consult– ing, a member firm of the Arthur Andersen Worldwide Organiza– tion that helps clients use infor– mation in strategic, financial, and operations management. Margo Cheek is a senior vice president and controller for First Interstate Bank at the Corporate Banking Center in northwest Portland. Steven Hedberg is a partner in the Portland office of Perkins Coie law firm. Hedberg, whose practice emphasizes creditors' rights and bankruptcy law, was previously a partner with Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen. Jeri Tess is an associate designer for Edelman Naiman, an interior design and planning firm in Portland. '82 Richard H. Carson is chair of the Citizens' Campaign for Metropolitan Greenspaces. Carson was formerly planning director for Metro. Thomas Dryden Jr. is a detec– tive with the Sexual Assault Unit of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department. Erin Elkins-Hubert has worked in radio sales and management for 10 years and is currently with the Portland Trail Blazers. She and her husband Stan have one child. Loretta Siepelmeyer MT is state and local tax manager for Tektronix Inc., in Wilsonville, Ore. Kelvin Webster MST is chair of development for Portland Im– pact, a nonprofit social service agency serving homeless families, at-risk youth, and low– income elderly. Barbara Wilkins MSW was chosen Oregon's Social Worker of the Year for 1992 by the board of directors of the Nation– al Association of Social Workers. Wilkins, who is in private practice in Portland, is president-elect of the Oregon chapter of the association. Sharon A. Williams is the mother of twin girls born last spring. Williams is an attorney specializing in domestic relations for the Portland law firm of Sorensen-Jolink, Trubo, Koch and Mcllhenny. Maureen Wright is an internist at Kaiser Sunnyside Clinic in Portland. Wright went to medi– cal school and completed her residency at Oregon Health Sciences University. '83 Elizabeth Coonrod-Martinez is working on her Ph.D. in Spanish literature at the Univer– sity of New Mexico in Albuquer– que, N.M. She earned an M.A. from New York University in 1991. Clayton Moore is an engineer with AT&T in Denver, Colo. He and his wife had their first child last spring. Kristie K. Murphy is working on a master's degree in clinical psychology at Pepperdine University, Calif. '84 Steven Crawford works for the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a teacher in the GED (high school equivalency) program. Crawford writes that he was selected to at– tend a law-related educational conference in Washington, D.C. Randall Krenelka is vice presi– dent and controller of Northwest National Bank in Vancouver, Wash. The bank has 10 branches in Clark County.